meat department

Ex: Other activities involve students in taking field trips to the local greengrocery and/or butcher's shop, and listening to nurses, consumer activists and othe guest speakers.

Ex: This new horror genre uses humor in the midst of violent gore & carnage.

Ex: Their marked-down food products are right after the meat department.

Ex: No problem usually with terminals and micros but there could be an undesirable temperature build-up in confined areas.

industria automovilística — car industry, auto industry (EEUU)

industria del automóvil — car industry, automobile industry (EEUU)

Ex: Library automation has become a multimillion dollar industry.

Ex: Business International Inc. is another US service covering economic and marketing activities in over seventy countries.

producción propia — (TV) in-house production

Ex: A producer is the person with final responsibility for the making of a motion picture, including business aspects, management of the production, and the commercial success of the film.

comprar algo a algn — [para algn] to buy sth for sb, buy sb sth; [de algn] to buy sth from sb

si decides vender el coche, yo te lo compro — if you decide to sell the car, I'll buy it from o off you

• comprar algo al contado — to pay cash (for sth), pay sth in cash

• comprar algo al detalle — to buy sth retail

• comprar algo a plazos — to buy sth on hire purchase

• comprar algo al por mayor — to buy sth wholesale

• comprar algo al por menor — to buy sth retail

• comprar deudas — to factor

intentaron comprar al juez — they tried to bribe o buy off * the judge

nunca compro en grandes almacenes — I never buy o shop in department stores

comprarle algo a alguien — ( a quien lo vende) to buy something from somebody; ( a quien lo recibe) to buy something for somebody

comprar algo al por mayor/al por menor or al detalle — to buy o purchase something wholesale/retail

un árbitro comprado — a crooked o (esp BrE) bent referee

comprarle algo a alguien — ( a quien lo vende) to buy something from somebody; ( a quien lo recibe) to buy something for somebody

comprar algo al por mayor/al por menor or al detalle — to buy o purchase something wholesale/retail

un árbitro comprado — a crooked o (esp BrE) bent referee

Ex: Discount charges are available by contracting to buy a predetermined number of connect hours per year.

•a la vez, hablaban todos a la vez — they were all talking at once o at the same time

•¿has estado alguna vez en...? — have you ever been to...?

• las más de las veces — mostly, in most cases

• por primera vez — for the first time

• toda vez que... — since..., given that...

• por última vez — for the last time

lo he hecho cien veces — I've done it hundreds o lots of times *

•a veces, [algunas] veces — sometimes, at times

• contadas veces — seldom

• de vez en cuando — now and again, from time to time, occasionally

•¿ cuántas veces? — how often?, how many times?

• dos veces — twice

•en... veces, se fríen las patatas en dos veces — fry the potatoes in two batches

• por enésima vez — for the umpteenth time *

• muchas veces — often

• otra vez — again

• pocas veces — seldom, rarely

• rara vez, [raras] veces — seldom, rarely

• repetidas veces — again and again, over and over again

• una vez — once

érase o había una vez una princesa... — once upon a time there was a princess...

• varias veces — several times

• de una vez — (=en una sola ocasión) in one go; (=definitivamente) once and for all *

¡acabemos de una vez! — let's get it over with (once and for all)! *

¡cállate de una vez! — for the last time, shut up! *

•en vez de — instead of

• hacer las veces de — to serve as

• una vez que — once

• de una vez para siempre, de una vez por [todas] — once and for all *, for good

• ceder la vez — (gen) to give up one's turn; (en cola) to give up one's place

• pedir la vez — to ask who's last in the queue

• quitar la vez a algn — to push in in front of sb

mil veces or miles de veces — a thousand times o thousands of times

la de veces or las veces que se lo dije! — the (number of) times I told him!

érase or había una vez — (liter) once upon a time (liter)

¿por qué no lo dejamos para otra vez? — why don't we leave it for another time o day?

una vez más — once again o more

cada vez — every o each time

se utiliza cada vez más — it's being used increasingly o more and more

de una vez — ( expresando impaciencia) once and for all; ( simultáneamente) in one go

una vez que hayan terminado — once o when you have finished

hacer las veces de algo — caja/libro to serve as something; persona to act as something

¿quién tiene or me da la vez? — who's last?

mil veces or miles de veces — a thousand times o thousands of times

la de veces or las veces que se lo dije! — the (number of) times I told him!

érase or había una vez — (liter) once upon a time (liter)

¿por qué no lo dejamos para otra vez? — why don't we leave it for another time o day?

una vez más — once again o more

cada vez — every o each time

se utiliza cada vez más — it's being used increasingly o more and more

de una vez — ( expresando impaciencia) once and for all; ( simultáneamente) in one go

una vez que hayan terminado — once o when you have finished

hacer las veces de algo — caja/libro to serve as something; persona to act as something

¿quién tiene or me da la vez? — who's last?

Ex: In particular note, for example by ticking them, those terms that merit a turn in the lead position, and those that do not.