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member of the executive council

  • 1 member of the executive council

    General subject: MEC

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > member of the executive council

  • 2 MEC

    2) Авиация: блок управления основного двигателя (main engine controller), Main Engine Control (Топливный агрегат для управления тягой ГТД)
    7) Железнодорожный термин: State Rail System
    10) Электроника: Mobile Entertainment Center
    11) Вычислительная техника: Memory Expansion Card, movement estimation coprocessor
    13) Фирменный знак: Mountain Equipment Company
    14) Деловая лексика: Marginal External Cost
    15) Инвестиции: marginal efficiency of capital
    16) Химическое оружие: missile element car
    18) Расширение файла: MECCA source (Maximus), MECCA source Maximus
    19) Нефть и газ: main engineering contractor
    21) Электротехника: minimum energy curve
    22) Общественная организация: Michigan Environmental Council
    23) Аэропорты: Mantra, Ecuador

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > MEC

  • 3 mec

    2) Авиация: блок управления основного двигателя (main engine controller), Main Engine Control (Топливный агрегат для управления тягой ГТД)
    7) Железнодорожный термин: State Rail System
    10) Электроника: Mobile Entertainment Center
    11) Вычислительная техника: Memory Expansion Card, movement estimation coprocessor
    13) Фирменный знак: Mountain Equipment Company
    14) Деловая лексика: Marginal External Cost
    15) Инвестиции: marginal efficiency of capital
    16) Химическое оружие: missile element car
    18) Расширение файла: MECCA source (Maximus), MECCA source Maximus
    19) Нефть и газ: main engineering contractor
    21) Электротехника: minimum energy curve
    22) Общественная организация: Michigan Environmental Council
    23) Аэропорты: Mantra, Ecuador

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > mec

  • 4 член военного совета

    Русско-английский военно-политический словарь > член военного совета

  • 5 Bundesrat

    m
    1. BRD und Österreich: Bundesrat, Upper House (of the German / Austrian Parliament)
    2. Schweiz: Bundesrat, Executive Federal Council
    3. Österreich, Schweiz: (Person) member of the Bundesrat
    * * *
    The Bundesrat is the second chamber of the Federal Republic of Germany, representing the Länder. It has 69 members, who are not elected but delegated by the 16 Land governments. The most important of the Bundesrat's duties concerns legislation: Federal laws that impinge upon the responsibilities of the Länder require its approval. The Bundesrat may also object to other laws, although the Bundestag can overrule the objection. As a result, Federal policy can be influenced by parties who are in opposition in the Bundestag if these parties hold a majority in most of the Land parliaments. In Austria the Bundesrat has 63 members. Apart from being able to introduce its own proposals for legislation, the Bundesrat has certain rights of veto and approval with regard to laws passed by the Nationalrat. In Switzerland, however, the Bundesrat is the executive body, i.e. the government. The Bundesversammlung appoints seven Bundesräte (ministers), who must come from different cantons, for a period of four years. Each of these ministers is then placed in charge of a Departement. See: → Bundestag, Bundesversammlung, Nationalrat
    * * *
    Bun·des·rat1
    m
    1. BRD, ÖSTERR Bundesrat (Upper House of Parliament)
    2. kein pl SCHWEIZ Federal Council (executive body)
    Bun·des·rat2, -rä·tin
    m, f ÖSTERR Member of the Bundesrat/Upper House of Parliament; SCHWEIZ Member of the Federal Council
    * * *
    2) (österr., schweiz.) Federal Council
    •• Cultural note:
    This is the upper house of the German parliamentary system, where the Länder are represented. The Bundesrat members are appointed by the Länder governments. The Bundesrat has to approve laws affecting the Länder, and also any changes to the Grundgesetz. Sometimes the opposition parties actually hold a majority in the Bundesrat, which allows them to influence German legislation
    * * *
    1. BRD und Österreich: Bundesrat, Upper House (of the German/Austrian Parliament)
    2. Schweiz: Bundesrat, Executive Federal Council
    3. Österreich, Schweiz: (Person) member of the Bundesrat
    * * *
    2) (österr., schweiz.) Federal Council
    •• Cultural note:
    This is the upper house of the German parliamentary system, where the Länder are represented. The Bundesrat members are appointed by the Länder governments. The Bundesrat has to approve laws affecting the Länder, and also any changes to the Grundgesetz. Sometimes the opposition parties actually hold a majority in the Bundesrat, which allows them to influence German legislation

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Bundesrat

  • 6 ejecutivo

    adj.
    executive.
    m.
    executive, exec, business executive, officer.
    * * *
    1 executive
    2 (rápido) prompt
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 executive
    1 (gobierno) the government
    \
    poder ejecutivo the executive
    * * *
    (f. - ejecutiva)
    noun adj.
    * * *
    ejecutivo, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) [función, poder] executive
    2) (=urgente) [petición] pressing, insistent; [respuesta] prompt; [negocio] urgent, immediate
    2.
    SM (Pol) executive
    3.
    SM / F (Com) executive

    ejecutivo/a de cuentas — account executive

    ejecutivo/a de ventas — sales executive

    * * *
    I
    - va adjetivo <función/comisión> executive
    II
    - va masculino, femenino
    1) (Adm, Com) executive
    2) ejecutivo masculino (Gob) executive
    * * *
    = executive, business executive, administrative, administrator, corporate executive, exec, executive.
    Ex. The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    Ex. The trustee was generally male, 'past his prime', white, Protestant, well educated, wealthy, a member of the social elite, and usually a member of a profession or a business executive.
    Ex. There is now the highest number of women in top administrative positions than there has been before: 54 women out of a total of 111 directorships.
    Ex. With continued acquiescence to budget-cutting administrators, tomorrow's libraries may be viewed as mere custodians and perhaps even superfluous to their institutions.
    Ex. There are millions of jokes about dumb blondes, but there is not so many jokes about cooperate executives.
    Ex. Although there is consensus on the priority of some strategies, execs from different departments don't see eye to eye on many others.
    Ex. The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    ----
    * búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunting, executive search.
    * director ejecutivo = chief executive.
    * ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * ejecutivo superior = top executive.
    * empresa de búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunter.
    * poder ejecutivo = chief executive, executive arm, executive power.
    * poder ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * resumen ejecutivo = executive summary.
    * secretario ejecutivo = executive secretary.
    * * *
    I
    - va adjetivo <función/comisión> executive
    II
    - va masculino, femenino
    1) (Adm, Com) executive
    2) ejecutivo masculino (Gob) executive
    * * *
    el ejecutivo
    = Executive, the

    Ex: Granting the Executive the power to torture people and jail them indefinitely, without meaningful judicial review, is like playing with fire.

    = executive, business executive, administrative, administrator, corporate executive, exec, executive.

    Ex: The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.

    Ex: The trustee was generally male, 'past his prime', white, Protestant, well educated, wealthy, a member of the social elite, and usually a member of a profession or a business executive.
    Ex: There is now the highest number of women in top administrative positions than there has been before: 54 women out of a total of 111 directorships.
    Ex: With continued acquiescence to budget-cutting administrators, tomorrow's libraries may be viewed as mere custodians and perhaps even superfluous to their institutions.
    Ex: There are millions of jokes about dumb blondes, but there is not so many jokes about cooperate executives.
    Ex: Although there is consensus on the priority of some strategies, execs from different departments don't see eye to eye on many others.
    Ex: The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    * búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunting, executive search.
    * director ejecutivo = chief executive.
    * ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * ejecutivo superior = top executive.
    * empresa de búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunter.
    * poder ejecutivo = chief executive, executive arm, executive power.
    * poder ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * resumen ejecutivo = executive summary.
    * secretario ejecutivo = executive secretary.

    * * *
    ejecutivo1 -va
    ‹función/comisión› executive director, poder2 m D. (↑ poder (2))
    ejecutivo2 -va
    masculine, feminine
    A ( Adm, Com) (persona) executive
    ejecutivo de ventas sales executive
    B
    ejecutivo masculine ( Gob): el ejecutivo the executive
    el jefe del ejecutivo the head of the government o the executive
    * * *

     

    ejecutivo 1
    ◊ -va adjetivo ‹función/comisión› executive

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (Bot, Com) executive
    ejecutivo 2 sustantivo masculino (Gob) executive
    ejecutivo,-a
    I adjetivo executive
    el consejo ejecutivo, the executive council
    II sustantivo masculino executive

    ' ejecutivo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ejecutiva
    - alto
    English:
    executive
    - high-powered
    - hotshot
    - MD
    - managing director
    - take
    * * *
    ejecutivo, -a
    ♦ adj
    executive
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] executive;
    ejecutivo agresivo thrusting executive;
    un alto ejecutivo de la compañía a top executive of the company
    ejecutivo de cuentas account executive;
    ejecutivo de marketing marketing executive;
    ejecutivo de ventas sales executive
    ♦ nm
    Pol
    el ejecutivo o [m5] Ejecutivo the government;
    fuentes del ejecutivo government sources
    * * *
    I adj executive;
    el poder ejecutivo POL the executive
    II m
    1 executive;
    alto ejecutivo top executive
    2
    :
    el Ejecutivo the government
    * * *
    ejecutivo, -va adj & n
    : executive
    * * *
    ejecutivo adj n executive

    Spanish-English dictionary > ejecutivo

  • 7 Vorstand

    m
    1. WIRTS. (board of) management; eines Vereins etc.: managing committee; eines Instituts etc.: board of governors ( oder trustees, bes. Am. directors); im Vorstand sitzen be on the board
    2. (Person) director; einer Gesellschaft: chairman (of the board), Am. chief executive
    * * *
    der Vorstand
    board of managers; board of directors
    * * *
    Vor|stand
    m
    1) (= leitendes Gremium) board; (von Firma) board (of directors); (von Verein) committee; (von Partei) executive; (von Akademie) board (of governors)
    2) (= Leiter) chairman, managing director
    3)
    See:
    * * *
    der
    1) (the head of a university.) chancellor
    2) (an important official in a university.) dean
    3) (a member of the committee of people who govern a school, hospital etc: He is on the board of governors.) governor
    * * *
    Vor·stand
    m
    1. (geschäftsführendes Gremium) board [of management] [or [executive] directors]; (einer Kirche) [church] council; (einer Partei) executive; (eines Vereins) [executive] committee
    2. (Vorstandsmitglied) director, board member, member of the board [of [executive] directors]; (einer Kirche) [church] warden; (einer Partei) executive; (eines Vereins) [member of the] executive [committee]
    * * *
    1) (einer Firma) board [of directors]; (eines Vereins) executive committee; (einer Partei) executive

    im Vorstand sein — be on the board/executive committee/executive

    * * *
    1. WIRTSCH (board of) management; eines Vereins etc: managing committee; eines Instituts etc: board of governors ( oder trustees, besonders US directors);
    im Vorstand sitzen be on the board
    2. (Person) director; einer Gesellschaft: chairman (of the board), US chief executive
    * * *
    1) (einer Firma) board [of directors]; (eines Vereins) executive committee; (einer Partei) executive

    im Vorstand sein — be on the board/executive committee/executive

    * * *
    -¨e (Firma) m.
    board of directors n. -¨e (Verein) m.
    managing committee n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Vorstand

  • 8 presidente

    adj.
    president.
    f. & m.
    1 president, Head of State, president of the nation.
    2 president, chairperson, chairman, director general.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 PLÍTICA president
    2 (de una empresa - hombre) chairman, US president; (- mujer) chairwoman, US president
    3 (de un club, sociedad) president
    4 (de una reunión - hombre) chairman; (- mujer) chairwoman
    * * *
    (f. - presidenta)
    noun
    2) chairperson, chairman / chairwoman
    * * *
    presidente, -a
    SM / F (SF a veces presidente)
    1) (Pol, Com) [de país, asociación] president; [de comité, reunión] chair, chairperson, chairman/chairwoman; Esp (Pol) (tb: Presidente del Gobierno) prime minister; [de la cámara] speaker

    candidato a presidente — (Pol) presidential candidate

    es candidato a presidente de Cruz Roja/del Real Madrid — he is a candidate for the presidency of the Red Cross/he is a candidate to be chairman of the board of Real Madrid

    presidente/a de honor — honorary president

    presidente/a vitalicio/a — president for life

    2) (Jur) (=magistrado) presiding magistrate; (=juez) presiding judge
    3) LAm (=alcalde) mayor
    PRESIDENTE DEL GOBIERNO The head of the Spanish government, or Presidente del Gobierno, is elected not just by the winning party but by the entire Congreso de los Diputados following a general election. The Presidente is appointed for a four-year term and called upon by the King to form a cabinet. As in Britain, he has the power to call an early election, and can be forced to do so by a censure motion in the Congreso.
    * * *
    - ta masculino, femenino
    a) (Gob, Pol) president

    el presidente del gobierno — the premier, the prime minister

    b) (de compañía, banco) president (AmE), chairman/-woman (BrE)
    c) (de reunión, comité, acto) chairperson, chair
    d) (Der) ( de tribunal) presiding judge/magistrate
    e) ( de jurado) chairman/-woman
    * * *
    = chairman [chairmen, pl.], president, chief executive officer (CEO), Director-General, chief executive, chair, chairperson [chairpersons, -pl.].
    Ex. As head of a committee, and being recognized as such, it's perfectly all right with me if I'm called the chairman rather than the chairwoman.
    Ex. Professor Freedman is president of the Library and Information Technology Association (formerly the Information Science and Automation Division) and a member of the ALA Council.
    Ex. The constituent networks may have presidents and CEO's (chief executive officers), but that's a different issue; there's no single authority figure for the Internet as a whole.
    Ex. The work of the Statistical Office is undertaken by six directorates headed by the Director-General who is assisted by a secretariat.
    Ex. The author concludes that few chief executives personally use the company library and online database services.
    Ex. Once elected, the chair is responsible for maintaining discipline and ensuring that all students are treated fairly.
    Ex. Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.
    ----
    * presidente del tribunal = presiding judge.
    * presidente del tribunal supremo = chief justice.
    * presidente de tribunal = chief justice.
    * presidente electo = president-elect [president elect].
    * vicepresidente = vice-president.
    * * *
    - ta masculino, femenino
    a) (Gob, Pol) president

    el presidente del gobierno — the premier, the prime minister

    b) (de compañía, banco) president (AmE), chairman/-woman (BrE)
    c) (de reunión, comité, acto) chairperson, chair
    d) (Der) ( de tribunal) presiding judge/magistrate
    e) ( de jurado) chairman/-woman
    * * *
    = chairman [chairmen, pl.], president, chief executive officer (CEO), Director-General, chief executive, chair, chairperson [chairpersons, -pl.].

    Ex: As head of a committee, and being recognized as such, it's perfectly all right with me if I'm called the chairman rather than the chairwoman.

    Ex: Professor Freedman is president of the Library and Information Technology Association (formerly the Information Science and Automation Division) and a member of the ALA Council.
    Ex: The constituent networks may have presidents and CEO's (chief executive officers), but that's a different issue; there's no single authority figure for the Internet as a whole.
    Ex: The work of the Statistical Office is undertaken by six directorates headed by the Director-General who is assisted by a secretariat.
    Ex: The author concludes that few chief executives personally use the company library and online database services.
    Ex: Once elected, the chair is responsible for maintaining discipline and ensuring that all students are treated fairly.
    Ex: Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.
    * presidente del tribunal = presiding judge.
    * presidente del tribunal supremo = chief justice.
    * presidente de tribunal = chief justice.
    * presidente electo = president-elect [president elect].
    * vicepresidente = vice-president.

    * * *
    presidente -ta Presidente del Gobierno (↑ presidente a1)
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Gob, Pol) president
    el presidente del gobierno the premier, the prime minister
    Presidente de la Comisión Europea President of the European Commission
    2 (de una compañía, un banco) president ( AmE), chairman ( BrE)
    3 (de una reunión, un comité, acto) chair, chairperson
    presidente de honor honorary president o chairman
    4 ( Der) (de un tribunal) presiding judge/magistrate
    5 (de un jurado) chairman
    Compuesto:
    (en elecciones) chief canvasser ( AmE), chief scrutineer ( BrE); ( RPl) ( Educ) chairman ( of a panel of examiners)
    * * *

    presidente
    ◊ -ta sustantivo masculino, femenino

    a) (Gob, Pol) president;


    b) (de compañía, banco) president (AmE), chairman (BrE)

    c) (de reunión, comité, acto) chairperson, chair

    d) (Der) ( de tribunal) presiding judge/magistrate

    e) ( de jurado) chairman/chairwoman

    presidente,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 Pol president
    presidente del Gobierno, prime minister, premier
    2 (de una empresa, reunión) (hombre) chairman, (mujer) chairwoman
    ' presidente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acosar
    - actual
    - dimitir
    - electa
    - electo
    - función
    - investir
    - legislatura
    - mesa
    - presidenta
    - propia
    - propio
    - protagonismo
    - salva
    - sanear
    - señor
    - argentino
    - atentado
    - autonómico
    - calidad
    - cargo
    - entrante
    - facultar
    - mismo
    - vitalicio
    English:
    amen
    - articulate
    - assistant
    - assume
    - austerity
    - care
    - chairman
    - chairperson
    - conspire
    - contrive
    - drastic
    - dynamism
    - elect
    - entertain
    - escort
    - foreman
    - honorary
    - inaugurate
    - inauguration
    - intercede
    - likelihood
    - make
    - mimic
    - office
    - oust
    - override
    - patron
    - president
    - propose
    - report
    - speaker
    - chair
    - chief
    - first
    - go
    * * *
    presidente, -a nm,f
    1. [de nación] president;
    2. [de asamblea, jurado] chairman, f chairwoman;
    [de empresa] chairman, f chairwoman, US president presidente de honor honorary president o chairman;
    presidente de mesa [en elecciones] Br chief scrutineer, US chief canvasser;
    RP [en exámenes] chairman, f chairwoman [of the panel]
    3. [del parlamento] speaker
    4. [de tribunal] presiding judge
    presidente del tribunal supremo chief justice
    5. Méx presidente municipal [alcalde] mayor
    * * *
    m, presidenta f president; de gobierno premier, prime minister; de compañía president, Br
    chairman, Br
    mujer chairwoman; de comité chair
    * * *
    presidente, -ta n
    1) : president
    2) : chair, chairperson
    3) : presiding judge
    * * *
    1. (del estado) president
    2. (de una empresa, reunión) chairman [pl. chairmen]

    Spanish-English dictionary > presidente

  • 9 Vorstand

    Vor·stand m
    1) ( geschäftsführendes Gremium) board [of management] [or [executive] directors]; ( einer Kirche) [church] council; ( einer Partei) executive; ( eines Vereins) [executive] committee
    2) ( Vorstandsmitglied) director, board member, member of the board [of [executive] directors]; ( einer Kirche) [church] warden; ( einer Partei) executive; ( eines Vereins) [member of the] executive [committee]

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > Vorstand

  • 10 Bundesrat

    Bun·des·rat
    1. Bun·des·rat m
    1) (brd, österr) Bundesrat (Upper House of Parliament)
    2) kein pl ( SCHWEIZ) Federal Council (executive body)
    ¿Kultur?
    The Bundesrat - the Upper House of the German Parliament is composed of members of the individual state governments. The number of representatives is determined by the size of the state. The Bundesrat plays a role in the passing of legislation. In Austria, the Bundesrat is the part of parliament where the Länder - provinces are represented according to their population. The exact number of representatives from the provinces is stipulated by the Federal President after each national census. In Switzerland however, the Bundesrat is the government, which consists of seven members who are elected for four years and is chaired by the Federal President.
    2. Bun·des·rat, -rä·tin
    m, f
    ( ÖSTERR) Member of the Bundesrat/Upper House of Parliament;
    ( SCHWEIZ) Member of the Federal Council

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > Bundesrat

  • 11 comité

    m.
    committee.
    * * *
    1 committee
    \
    comité de empresa works committee
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *

    comité de apelación — committee o board of appeal

    comité de empresa — works committee, shop stewards' committee

    comité de redacción — [gen] drafting committee; (Prensa) editorial committee

    Comité Directivo — (Dep) board (of management)

    * * *
    1) ( junta) committee
    2) (RPl) ( sede) local headquarters (sing o pl)
    * * *
    = board, caucus [caucuses, pl.], commission, committee, support group, panel.
    Ex. The librarian is also a member of the board of Education Studies and Humanities, indeed the university librarian served as Dean of the School for a period of three years.
    Ex. For example, the most recent meeting of that group endorsed the recommendation of the Black Caucus that we change BLACKS and NEGROES to AFRO-AMERICANS.
    Ex. Amongst these are numbered: some specific legal and governmental works, such as laws, decrees, treaties; works that record the collective thought of a body, for example, reports of commissions and committees; and various cartographic materials.
    Ex. Amongst these are numbered: some specific legal and governmental works, such as laws, decrees, treaties; works that record the collective thought of a body, for example, reports of commissions and committees; and various cartographic materials.
    Ex. The work was carried out as part of the work of a support group set up to help in various aspects of an archaeological dig.
    Ex. The books were chosen by panels of children.
    ----
    * comité ad hoc = ad hoc committee.
    * comité asesor = think tank, advisory council, advisory board, advisory committee, consultative committee.
    * comité científico = scientific committee.
    * comité conjunto = joint committee.
    * Comité Conjunto para Sistemas de Información (JISC) = Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
    * comité consultivo = advisory committee, consultative committee, advisory council, advisory board.
    * comité coordinador = coordinating committee.
    * comité de asuntos económicos = finance committee.
    * comité de dirección = steering committee.
    * comité de evaluación = review panel, review board, review committee.
    * comité de expertos = professional committee.
    * Comité de las Organizaciones de Productores Agrícolas (COPA) = Committee of Agricultural Producer Organizations (COPA).
    * Comité de las Universidades Británicas sobre Películas y Vídeos (BUFVC) = British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC).
    * comité de ordenación académica = course committee.
    * comité de planificación = planning committee.
    * Comité de Revisión de las Reglas de Catalogación (CCRC) = Catalog Code Revision Committee (CCRC).
    * comité de selección = screening panel, search and screen committee, search committee.
    * comité de supervisión = review board.
    * comité directivo = steering committee, steering body.
    * comité ejecutivo = executive board.
    * comité especial = working party.
    * Comité Internacional del Escudo Azul (ICBS) = International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS).
    * Comité Nacional de Asesoramiento (NACO) = National Advisory Committee (NACO).
    * comité organizador = organising committee.
    * Comité para la Homologación (COA) = Committee on Accreditation (COA).
    * comité permanente = standing committee.
    * comité seleccionador = interviewing board, interview committee.
    * comité selecto = select committee.
    * crear un comité = set up + committee.
    * elegir un comité = appoint + committee.
    * formar parte de un comite = serve on + committee.
    * formar un comité = set up + committee.
    * miembro de un comité = committeeman [committeemen, -pl.].
    * nombrar un comité = appoint + committee.
    * * *
    1) ( junta) committee
    2) (RPl) ( sede) local headquarters (sing o pl)
    * * *
    = board, caucus [caucuses, pl.], commission, committee, support group, panel.

    Ex: The librarian is also a member of the board of Education Studies and Humanities, indeed the university librarian served as Dean of the School for a period of three years.

    Ex: For example, the most recent meeting of that group endorsed the recommendation of the Black Caucus that we change BLACKS and NEGROES to AFRO-AMERICANS.
    Ex: Amongst these are numbered: some specific legal and governmental works, such as laws, decrees, treaties; works that record the collective thought of a body, for example, reports of commissions and committees; and various cartographic materials.
    Ex: Amongst these are numbered: some specific legal and governmental works, such as laws, decrees, treaties; works that record the collective thought of a body, for example, reports of commissions and committees; and various cartographic materials.
    Ex: The work was carried out as part of the work of a support group set up to help in various aspects of an archaeological dig.
    Ex: The books were chosen by panels of children.
    * comité ad hoc = ad hoc committee.
    * comité asesor = think tank, advisory council, advisory board, advisory committee, consultative committee.
    * comité científico = scientific committee.
    * comité conjunto = joint committee.
    * Comité Conjunto para Sistemas de Información (JISC) = Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
    * comité consultivo = advisory committee, consultative committee, advisory council, advisory board.
    * comité coordinador = coordinating committee.
    * comité de asuntos económicos = finance committee.
    * comité de dirección = steering committee.
    * comité de evaluación = review panel, review board, review committee.
    * comité de expertos = professional committee.
    * Comité de las Organizaciones de Productores Agrícolas (COPA) = Committee of Agricultural Producer Organizations (COPA).
    * Comité de las Universidades Británicas sobre Películas y Vídeos (BUFVC) = British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC).
    * comité de ordenación académica = course committee.
    * comité de planificación = planning committee.
    * Comité de Revisión de las Reglas de Catalogación (CCRC) = Catalog Code Revision Committee (CCRC).
    * comité de selección = screening panel, search and screen committee, search committee.
    * comité de supervisión = review board.
    * comité directivo = steering committee, steering body.
    * comité ejecutivo = executive board.
    * comité especial = working party.
    * Comité Internacional del Escudo Azul (ICBS) = International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS).
    * Comité Nacional de Asesoramiento (NACO) = National Advisory Committee (NACO).
    * comité organizador = organising committee.
    * Comité para la Homologación (COA) = Committee on Accreditation (COA).
    * comité permanente = standing committee.
    * comité seleccionador = interviewing board, interview committee.
    * comité selecto = select committee.
    * crear un comité = set up + committee.
    * elegir un comité = appoint + committee.
    * formar parte de un comite = serve on + committee.
    * formar un comité = set up + committee.
    * miembro de un comité = committeeman [committeemen, -pl.].
    * nombrar un comité = appoint + committee.

    * * *
    A (comisión) committee
    el comité ejecutivo the executive committee
    Compuestos:
    (UE) Economic and Finance Committee
    ( Esp) works committee
    editorial board/committee
    (UE) Committee of Permanent Representatives
    selection board/committee
    B ( RPl) (sede) local headquarters ( sing o pl)
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    comité sustantivo masculino ( junta) committee;
    ◊ comité de redacción editorial board o committee

    comité sustantivo masculino committee

    ' comité' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    antinuclear
    - comisión
    - conjunto
    - encabezar
    - junta
    - presidencia
    - presidente
    - presidir
    English:
    ballot
    - behalf
    - chair
    - committee
    - executive
    - intercede
    - joint
    - meet
    - member
    - on
    - serve
    - sit
    - sitting
    - standing
    * * *
    committee
    comité central central committee;
    comité consultivo consultative committee;
    Dep comité de competición disciplinary committee;
    comité de disciplina disciplinary comittee;
    UE Comité Económico y Social Economic and Social Committee;
    comité ejecutivo executive committee;
    Ind comité de empresa Br works council, US employees' group;
    comité de gestión management committee;
    Ind comité intercentros coordinating o joint committee [of trade unions];
    comité olímpico Olympic Committee;
    comité permanente standing committee;
    UE Comité de las Regiones Committee of the Regions
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  • 12 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 13 junta

    f.
    1 committee.
    junta directiva board of directors
    junta de gobierno = government and administrative body in certain autonomous regions
    junta militar military junta
    2 meeting.
    junta (general) de accionistas shareholders' meeting
    junta general extraordinaria extraordinary general meeting
    3 joint (juntura).
    4 board, junta.
    5 autonomous government.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: juntar.
    * * *
    1 (reunión) meeting, assembly, conference
    2 (conjunto de personas) board, council, committee
    3 (sesión) session, sitting
    4 (militar) junta
    \
    junta administrativa administrative board
    junta de accionistas shareholders' meeting
    junta de empresa works council
    junta directiva board of directors
    junta militar military junta
    * * *
    1. noun f.
    2) meeting, assembly
    2. f., (m. - junto)
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=reunión) meeting

    celebrar o convocar una junta — to hold a meeting

    junta general extraordinaria — extraordinary general meeting, special meeting (EEUU)

    2) (=comité) [gen] council, committee; (Com, Econ) board

    junta de portavoces — (Parl) House business committee

    3) (Mil) junta
    4) Esp (Pol) name given to the governments of some autonomous areas in Spain
    5) (Téc) (=acoplamiento) joint; (=arandela) washer, gasket

    junta cardán, junta universal — universal joint

    6) LAm (=amistad)
    * * *
    1)
    a) (comité, comisión) board, committee; ( de empresa) board; ( reunión) meeting

    celebrar/convocar una junta de accionistas — to hold/call a shareholders' meeting

    b) ( de militares) junta
    2) (Mec) ( acoplamiento) joint; ( para cerrar herméticamente) gasket
    3) (CS pey) ( amistad) association
    * * *
    = board, bond, joint, seal.
    Ex. The librarian is also a member of the board of Education Studies and Humanities, indeed the university librarian served as Dean of the School for a period of three years.
    Ex. Networking creates bonds where none may have existed and multiplies individual capabilities manifold.
    Ex. Their purpose was, as paste-downs, to reinforce the joints of the covers and, as flyleaves, to give additional protection to the end pages of the book.
    Ex. It uses a heavy-duty seal and is therefore watertight, but not submersible.
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    * junta de dirección = board of directors.
    * junta de facultad = faculty board.
    * junta estanca = seal.
    * junta militar = military junta, junta.
    * reparación de la junta de culata = head work.
    * reparación de las juntas de los ladrillos = pointing.
    * reunión de la junta directiva = board meeting.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (comité, comisión) board, committee; ( de empresa) board; ( reunión) meeting

    celebrar/convocar una junta de accionistas — to hold/call a shareholders' meeting

    b) ( de militares) junta
    2) (Mec) ( acoplamiento) joint; ( para cerrar herméticamente) gasket
    3) (CS pey) ( amistad) association
    * * *
    = board, bond, joint, seal.

    Ex: The librarian is also a member of the board of Education Studies and Humanities, indeed the university librarian served as Dean of the School for a period of three years.

    Ex: Networking creates bonds where none may have existed and multiplies individual capabilities manifold.
    Ex: Their purpose was, as paste-downs, to reinforce the joints of the covers and, as flyleaves, to give additional protection to the end pages of the book.
    Ex: It uses a heavy-duty seal and is therefore watertight, but not submersible.
    * junta de dirección = board of directors.
    * junta de facultad = faculty board.
    * junta estanca = seal.
    * junta militar = military junta, junta.
    * reparación de la junta de culata = head work.
    * reparación de las juntas de los ladrillos = pointing.
    * reunión de la junta directiva = board meeting.

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    Junta Autonómica (↑ junta a1)
    A
    1 (comité, comisión) board, committee
    3 (reunión) meeting
    junta militar military junta
    Compuestos:
    stockholders’ o shareholders’ meeting
    celebraron/convocaron una junta de accionistas they held/called a shareholders' meeting
    district council
    nuclear energy commission
    ( Pol) government junta; ( Com) executive board; ( Méx) ( Educ) senate ( of a university)
    (en Ur) provincial government
    members' meeting
    board of directors
    Compuestos:
    universal joint
    compensation joint
    head gasket
    ● junta de dilatación or de expansión
    expansion joint
    universal joint
    C (CS pey) (amistad) association
    las malas juntas bad company
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    Del verbo juntar: ( conjugate juntar)

    junta es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    junta    
    juntar
    junta sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (comité, comisión) board, committee;

    ( de empresa) board;
    ( reunión) meeting;



    2 (Mec) ( acoplamiento) joint;
    ( para cerrar herméticamente) gasket
    juntar ( conjugate juntar) verbo transitivo
    a) ( unir) ‹pies/manos/camas› to put … together

    b) ( reunir) ‹fichas/piezas› to collect up, gather together;

    ‹ dinero› to save (up);

    c) ( cerrar) ‹ puerta› to push … to

    juntarse verbo pronominal
    1 [ personas]
    a) ( acercarse) to move o get closer together



    c) ( como pareja) to live together;


    2
    a) [desgracias/sucesos] to come together

    b) [carreteras/conductos] to meet, join

    junto,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (reunido, acompañado, a un tiempo) together: vivimos juntos, we live together
    todos juntos, all together
    2 (próximos) tiene los ojos muy juntos, his eyes are very close together
    dos mesas juntas, two tables side by side
    II adverbio junto
    1 (cerca de) junto a, next to
    2 (en colaboración con, además de) junto con, together with
    junta sustantivo femenino
    1 (reunión) meeting, assembly
    Pol junta de gobierno, cabinet meeting
    2 (grupo de dirección) board, committee
    junta directiva, board of directors
    3 Mil junta
    4 Téc joint
    junta de dilatación, expansion joint
    juntar verbo transitivo
    1 (unir) to join, put together: juntaremos las sillas, we'll put the chairs together
    (ensamblar) to assemble
    2 (reunir a personas) quiere juntar a toda la familia, she wants to get all her family together
    (reunir animales) to round up
    4 (coleccionar) to collect
    5 (una cantidad de dinero) to raise
    ' junta' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    directiva
    - directivo
    - enfrente
    - sanedrín
    - sesión
    - vocal
    - comité
    - director
    - junto
    - reunir
    - seleccionador
    English:
    board
    - directorate
    - district council
    - fellow
    - joint
    - meeting
    - member
    - universal joint
    - federal
    - gasket
    - get
    - junta
    - washer
    * * *
    junta nf
    1. [grupo, comité] committee;
    [de empresa, examinadores] board junta arbitral arbitration panel; Urug junta departamental provincial government;
    junta directiva board of directors;
    junta electoral electoral board;
    junta de gobierno [de universidad] senate, governing body;
    junta militar military junta;
    junta municipal town o local council
    2. [reunión] meeting
    junta de accionistas shareholders' meeting;
    junta general de accionistas shareholders' meeting;
    junta general anual annual general meeting;
    junta general extraordinaria extraordinary general meeting;
    junta de portavoces = meeting of the party spokespersons in a parliament or council to discuss a particular issue;
    junta de vecinos residents' meeting
    3. Esp [gobierno autónomo] = government and administrative body in certain autonomous regions
    4. [juntura] joint
    junta cardánica universal joint;
    junta de dilatación expansion joint;
    junta esférica ball joint;
    junta de solape lap joint;
    junta universal universal joint
    5. RP, Ven Fam [compañía]
    anda con malas juntas she hangs out with a bad crowd
    * * *
    f
    1 POL (regional) government
    2 militar junta
    3 COM board
    4 ( sesión) meeting
    5 TÉC joint
    * * *
    junta nf
    1) : board, committee
    junta directiva: board of directors
    2) reunión: meeting, session
    3) : junta
    4) : joint, gasket
    * * *
    1. (reunión) meeting
    2. (comité) committee

    Spanish-English dictionary > junta

  • 14 Ausschuss

    Ausschuss m 1. GEN commission, comm., committee, comm., panel; 2. IND bad work (fehlerhafte Arbeit); rejects, defective units, lost units, wastage, spoilage (Produktion) • einem Ausschuss einen Antrag vorlegen GEN lay a proposal before a committee
    * * *
    m 1. < Geschäft> commission (comm.), committee (comm.), panel; 2. < Ind> fehlerhafte Arbeit bad work; Produktion rejects, defective units, lost units, wastage, spoilage ■ einem Ausschuss einen Antrag vorlegen < Geschäft> lay a proposal before a committee
    * * *
    Ausschuss
    commission, committee, board, panel, (Produktion) waste, wastage, scrap, refuse, reject[s], junk, rummage, (Waren) substandard goods, cull, rejection;
    • an einen Ausschuss verwiesen committed;
    • auswärtiger Ausschuss foreign-relations committee;
    • beratender Ausschuss advisory council (panel, board, committee), (EU) advisory committee;
    • engerer Ausschuss select (Br.) (small) committee;
    • erweiterter Ausschuss enlarged committee (US);
    • gemeinsamer Ausschuss joint committee;
    • gemischter Ausschuss joint commission (committee, Br.), hybrid committee;
    • geschäftsführender Ausschuss executive (managing, management) committee, board of management;
    • informeller Ausschuss informal commission;
    • Institutioneller Ausschuss (Europaparlament) Institutional Affairs Committee;
    • interministerieller Ausschuss interagency group (committee), interdepartmental committee;
    • nachgeordneter Ausschuss subordinate committee;
    • paritätischer Ausschuss joint committee;
    • politischer beratender Ausschuss Political Advisory (Consultative) Committee;
    • städtischer Ausschuss city commission;
    • ständiger Ausschuss standing (permanent) committee;
    • nicht ständiger Ausschuss temporary committee;
    • vorbereitender Ausschuss preparatory committee;
    • wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss scientific committee;
    • Ausschuss für Abwässerbeseitigung sewerage committee;
    • Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, Sicherheit und Verteidigungspolitik (Europaparlament) Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices;
    • Ausschuss zur Bekämpfung des unlauteren Wettbewerbs Federal Trade Commission (US);
    • Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsfragen economic development committee (Br.);
    • wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss unabhängiger Experten a special scientific committee of independent scientific experts;
    • Ausschuss zur Festlegung der Geschäftspolitik policy committee;
    • Ausschuss für Fragen des Industrieschutzes safety committee;
    • Ausschuss für Fragen des Umweltschutzes council on environmental quality;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Futtermittel'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition;
    • Ausschuss für Haushaltskontrolle Committe on Budgetary Control;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Lebensmittel'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Food;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss Veterinärmedizinischer Maßnahmen im Zusammenhang mit der öffentlichen Gesundheit (EU) Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to Public Health;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Kosmetische Mittel und für den Verbraucher bestimmte Non-Food-Erzeugnisse'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products intended for Consumers;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Pflanzen'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Plants;
    • Ausschuss der Präsidenten (EU) Presidential Committee;
    • Ausschuss der Regionen (EU) Committee of the Regions;
    • örtlicher Ausschuss für Schankkonzessionen excise commission (US);
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Tiergesundheit und artgerechte Tierhaltung'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Toxizität, Ökotoxizität und Umwelt'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment;
    • Ausschuss für Umweltfragen, Volksgesundheit und Verbraucherschutz (Europaparlament) Committe on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection;
    • Ausschuss der ständigen Vertreter der Mitgliedsstaaten (AStV) Committee of Permanent Representatives of the member states (Coreper);
    • Ausschuss der Ständigen Vertreter der nationalen Regierungen bei der EG (AStV) (Europaparlament) Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper);
    • Ausschuss zur Wahrung von Arbeitnehmerrechten employee rights committee;
    • Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Finanzen (UNO) Economic and Financial Committee;
    • Ausschuss der gewerblichen Wirtschaft trade[s] council;
    • Ausschuss für Wirtschaft, Währung und Industriepolitik (Europaparlament) Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy;
    • internationaler Ausschuss für Wirtschaftsprüferrichtlinien International Accounting Standards Committee;
    • einem Ausschuss angehören to be (serve, sit) on a committee, to form part of a commission;
    • Ausschuss auflösen to put a committee out of business, to disband a committee;
    • aus einem Ausschuss ausscheiden to cease to form part of a commission;
    • aus einem Ausschuss ausschließen to throw off a committee;
    • in einen Ausschuss berufen to appoint to a committee;
    • Ausschuss bilden to constitute (resolve itself into) a committee;
    • Ausschuss einsetzen to constitute a committee, to appoint a commission;
    • sich zu einem Ausschuss konstituieren (parl.) to form themselves into a committee;
    • in einem Ausschuss sitzen to serve on a committee;
    • einem Ausschuss zur Verfügung stehen to attend upon a committee;
    • an einen Ausschuss überweisen to refer to a committee, (Gesetzesvorlage) to commit a bill;
    • seinen Fall einem Ausschuss vorlegen to lay one’s case before a commission;
    • dem Ausschuss vorliegen to be in the committee stage;
    • mit geheimen Ausschussabstimmungen aufräumen to sweep away secrecy from committee votes;
    • Ausschussakten committee files;
    • durchschnittlicher Ausschussanteil beim Produktionsprozess process average fraction defective;
    • tolerierte Ausschussanzahl tolerance number of defectives;
    • Ausschussarbeit leisten to serve on a commission;
    • Ausschussberater committee council;
    • Ausschussberatungen committee discussions (consultations);
    • Ausschussberatungen beschleunigen to expedite the business of a committee;
    • Ausschussbericht committee (panel) report;
    • Ausschussbesetzung committee assignment;
    • Ausschussbogen (drucktechn.) waste sheet;
    • Ausschussdokument (EU) committee document;
    • Ausschusseinsetzung setting up a committee;
    • Ausschussempfehlungen committee’s recommendations (proposals);
    • Ausschussernennung committee appointment;
    • Ausschussfunktion function of a committee;
    • Ausschussfunktionen wahrnehmen to serve on a panel;
    • Ausschusslager junk pile;
    • Ausschussmehrheit majority of a committee;
    • Ausschussmeldung scrap report;
    • Ausschussmitglied member of the board, committee (commission, board, panel) member;
    • Ausschusspapier waste paper, broke;
    • Ausschussprotokoll committee record;
    • Ausschussprotokoll veröffentlichen to publish the commission’s proceedings;
    • Ausschussquote percentage of rejects;
    • Ausschusssitz seat on a committee;
    • Ausschusssitzung conference of a committee, committee meeting;
    • an einer Ausschusssitzung teilnehmen to attend a committee meeting;
    • Ausschussstadium committee stage;
    • noch nicht im Ausschussstadium (Gesetz) uncommitted;
    • unbesetzte Ausschussstelle commission vacancy;
    • Ausschussstück waste[r];
    • Ausschusssystem (EU) committee system;
    • Ausschussverfahren comitology procedure;
    • übliches Ausschussverfahren usual procedure at committee meetings;
    • Ausschussvollmachten powers of a committee;
    • Ausschussvorschlag committee’s proposal;
    • Ausschussvorsitz committee chairmanship;
    • Ausschussvorsitzender chairman of a committee;
    • Ausschussware job (damaged, rummage, substandard) goods, trumpery wares, junk, [manufacturing] rejects, as-is merchandise;
    • Ausschusszimmer committee room;
    • Ausschusszugehörigkeit committeeship.

    Business german-english dictionary > Ausschuss

  • 15 Buckle, William

    [br]
    b. 29 July 1794 Alnwick, Northumberland, England
    d. 30 September 1863 London, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer who introduced the first large screw-cutting lathe to Boulton, Watt \& Co.
    [br]
    William Buckle was the son of Thomas Buckle (1759–1849), a millwright who later assisted the 9th Earl of Dundonald (1749–1831) in his various inventions, principally machines for the manufacture of rope. Soon after the birth of William, the family moved from Alnwick to Hull, Yorkshire, where he received his education. The family again moved c.1808 to London, and William was apprenticed to Messrs Woolf \& Edwards, millwrights and engineers of Lambeth. During his apprenticeship he attended evening classes at a mechanical drawing school in Finsbury, which was then the only place of its kind in London.
    After completing his apprenticeship, he was sent by Messrs Humphrys to Memel in Prussia to establish steamboats on the rivers and lakes there under the patronage of the Prince of Hardenburg. After about four years he returned to Britain and was employed by Boulton, Watt \& Co. to install the engines in the first steam mail packet for the service between Dublin and Holyhead. He was responsible for the engines of the steamship Lightning when it was used on the visit of George IV to Ireland.
    About 1824 Buckle was engaged by Boulton, Watt \& Co. as Manager of the Soho Foundry, where he is credited with introducing the first large screw-cutting lathe. At Soho about 700 or 800 men were employed on a wide variety of engineering manufacture, including coining machinery for mints in many parts of the world, with some in 1826 for the Mint at the Soho Manufactory. In 1851, following the recommendations of a Royal Commission, the Royal Mint in London was reorganized and Buckle was asked to take the post of Assistant Coiner, the senior executive officer under the Deputy Master. This he accepted, retaining the post until the end of his life.
    At Soho, Buckle helped to establish a literary and scientific institution to provide evening classes for the apprentices and took part in the teaching. He was an original member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, which was founded in Birmingham in January 1847, and a member of their Council from then until 1855. He contributed a number of papers in the early years, including a memoir of William Murdock whom he had known at Soho; he resigned from the Institution in 1856 after his move to London. He was an honorary member of the London Association of Foreman Engineers.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1850, "Inventions and life of William Murdock", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 2 (October): 16–26.
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Buckle, William

  • 16 actuator

    1. рукоятка, приводящая в действие некоторый механизм
    2. приводное устройство
    3. привод контактного аппарата
    4. привод
    5. орган управления
    6. механизм конечного выключателя, воздействующий на контакты
    7. исполнительный орган
    8. исполнительный механизм
    9. защелка (для фиксации сочленения розетки и плоского печатного проводника)
    10. воздействующее устройство

     

    воздействующее устройство
    источник сигнала
    —
    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва, 1999 г.]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

    Синонимы

    EN

     

    исполнительный механизм
    Устройство для управления арматурой, предназначенное для перемещения регулирующего элемента в соответствии с командной информацией, поступающей от внешнего источника энергии.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52720-2007]

    исполнительный механизм
    Механизм, являющийся функциональным блоком, предназначенным для управления исполнительным органом в соответствии с командной информацией.
    Примечание. В системах автоматического регулирования сред исполнительный механизм предназначен для перемещения затвора регулирующего органа
    [ ГОСТ 14691-69]

    исполнительный механизм
    Силовой механизм, используемый для движения машины и ее частей.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60204-1-2007]

    EN

    (electric) actuator
    device that produces a specified movement when excited by an electric signal
    SOURCE: 351-18-46 MOD
    [IEV ref 151-13-49]

    actuator
    In electrical engineering, the term actuator refers to a mechanism that causes a device to be turned on or off, adjusted or moved, usually in response to an electrical signal. In some literature the terms actor or effector are also used. The term “effector” is preferred by programmers, whereas engineers tend to favor “actuator.”
    An example of an actuator is a motor that closes blinds in response to a signal from a sunlight detector.
    Actuators enable computers to control complex manufacturing processes without human intervention or supervision.
    [ABB. Glossary of technical terms. 2010]

    FR

    actionneur (électrique), m
    dispositif qui produit un mouvement spécifié en réponse à un signal électrique
    SOURCE: 351-18-46 MOD
    [IEV ref 151-13-49]

     

    Тематики

    EN

     

    исполнительный орган
    —
    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва, 1999 г.]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

    EN

     

    механизм конечного выключателя, воздействующий на контакты
    —
    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

    EN

     

    орган управления
    Часть системы аппарата управления, к которой прилагается извне усилие управления.
    МЭК 60050(441-15-22).
    Примечание. Орган управления может иметь форму рукоятки, ручки, нажимной кнопки, ролика, плунжера и т. п.
    [ ГОСТ Р 50030. 1-2000 ( МЭК 60947-1-99)]

    орган управления
    Часть приводного механизма, к которой прикладывается внешняя сила воздействия.
    Примечание - Орган управления может иметь форму ручки, кнопки, ролика, поршня и т.д.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52726-2007]

    орган управления
    Часть системы привода, подвергаемая внешнему силовому воздействию.
    Примечания
    1. Орган управления может иметь форму ручки, рукоятки, нажимной кнопки, ролика, плунжера и т.д.
    2. Есть несколько способов приведения в действие, которые не требуют внешнего силового воздействия, а только какого-либо действия.
    [ГОСТ ЕН 1070-2003]

    орган управления
    Часть системы управления, которая предназначена непосредственно для воздействия оператором, например путем нажатия.
    [ГОСТ Р ЕН 614-1-2003]

    орган управления
    Часть системы приведения в действие, которая принимает воздействие человека.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60447-2000]

    орган управления
    Часть системы приведения в действие, которая воспринимает воздействие человека (ГОСТ Р МЭК 60447).
    Примечание
    В настоящем стандарте орган управления в виде интерактивного экранного устройства отображения является частью этого устройства, которое представляет функцию органа управления.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60073-2000]

    орган управления
    Часть механизма прибора управления, на который оказывается вручную внешнее силовое воздействие.
    Примечание.
    Орган управления может иметь форму ручки, рукоятки, кнопки, ролика, плунжера и т.д.
    Некоторые органы управления не требуют воздействия внешней силы, а только какого-либо действия.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60204-1-2007]

    органы управления
    Ручки, переключатели, потенциометры и другие органы, служащие для включения и регулировки аппаратуры. Термин относится преимущественно к аналоговым приборам.
    [Система неразрушающего контроля. Виды (методы) и технология неразрушающего контроля. Термины и определения (справочное пособие). Москва 2003 г.]

    орган управления
    -
    [IEV number 442-04-14]

    средства оперирования
    -
    [Интент]

    EN

    actuator
    the part of the actuating system to which an external actuating force is applied
    NOTE – The actuator may take the form of a handle, knob, push-button, roller, plunger, etc.
    [IEV number 441-15-22]

    actuator
    part of a device to which an external manual action is to be applied
    NOTE 1 The actuator may take the form of a handle, knob, push-button, roller, plunger, etc.
    NOTE 2 There are some actuating means that do not require an external actuating force, but only an action.
    NOTE 3 See also 3.34.
    [IEC 60204-1 -2005]

    actuating member
    a part which is pulled, pushed, turned or otherwise moved to cause an operation of the switch
    [IEV number 442-04-14]

    FR

    organe de commande
    partie du mécanisme transmetteur à laquelle un effort extérieur de manoeuvre est appliqué
    NOTE – L'organe de commande peut prendre la forme d'une poignée, d'un bouton, d'un bouton-poussoir, d'une roulette, d'un plongeur, etc.
    [IEV number 441-15-22]

    organe de manoeuvre
    partie qui est tirée, poussée, tournée ou manipulée de toute autre façon pour provoquer le fonctionnement de l'interrupteur
    [IEV number 442-04-14]


    Аппарат должен оставаться механически действующим. Не допускается сваривание контактов, препятствующее операции размыкания при использовании нормальных средств оперирования.
    [ГОСТ  Р 50030.3-99 (МЭК  60947-3-99) ]

    ВДТ следует оперировать как при нормальной эксплуатации. Операции размыкания должны проводиться в следующем порядке:
    для первых 1000 циклов — с использованием ручных средств оперирования;    ...
    [ ГОСТ Р 51326. 1-99 ( МЭК 61008-1-96)]

    Параллельные тексты EN-RU

    The operating means (for example, a handle) of the supply disconnecting device shall be easily accessible and located between 0,6 m and 1,9 m above the servicing level.
    [IEC 60204-1-2006]

    Органы управления, например, рукоятки аппаратов отключения питания, должны быть легко доступны и располагаться на высоте от 0,6 до 1,9 м от рабочей площадки.
    [Перевод Интент]

    Where the external operating means is not intended for emergency operations, it is recommended that it be coloured BLACK or GREY.
    [IEC 60204-1-2006]

    Если внешние средства оперирования не предназначены для выполнения действий при возникновении аварийных ситуаций, то рекомендуется, применять такие средства ЧЕРНОГО или СЕРОГО цвета.
    [Перевод Интент]

     

    1.2.2. Control devices

    Control devices must be:
    — clearly visible and identifiable and appropriately marked where necessary,
    — positioned for safe operation without hesitation or loss of time, and without ambiguity,
    — designed so that the movement of the control is consistent with its effect,
    — located outside the danger zones, except for certain controls where necessary, such as emergency stop, console for training of robots,
    — positioned so that their operation cannot cause additional risk,
    — designed or protected so that the desired effect, where a risk is involved, cannot occur without an intentional operation,
    — made so as to withstand foreseeable strain; particular attention must be paid to emergency stop devices liable to be subjected to considerable strain.

    1.2.2. Органы управления

    Органы управления должны быть:
    - четко видны, хорошо различимы и, где это необходимо, иметь соответствующее обозначение;
    - расположены так, чтобы ими можно было пользоваться без возникновения сомнений и потерь времени на выяснение их назначения;
    - сконструированы так, чтобы перемещение органа управления согласовывалось с их воздействием;
    - расположены вне опасных зон; исключение, где это необходимо, делается для определенных средств управления, таких, как средство экстренной остановки, пульт управления роботом;
    - расположены так, чтобы их использование не вызывало дополнительных рисков;
    - сконструированы или защищены так, чтобы в случаях, где возможно возникновение рисков, они не могли бы возникнуть без выполнения намеренных действий;
    - сделаны так, чтобы выдерживать предполагаемую нагрузку; при этом особое внимание уделяется органам аварийного останова, которые могут подвергаться значительным нагрузкам.

    Where a control is designed and constructed to perform several different actions, namely where there is no one-to-one correspondence (e.g. keyboards, etc.), the action to be performed must be clearly displayed and subject to confirmation where necessary.

    Если орган управления предназначен для выполнения разных действий, например, если в качестве органа управления используется клавиатура или аналогичное устройство, то должна выводиться четкая информация о предстоящем действии, и, если необходимо, должно выполняться подтверждение на выполнение такого действия.

    Controls must be so arranged that their layout, travel and resistance to operation are compatible with the action to be performed, taking account of ergonomic principles.

    Органы управления должны быть организованы таким образом, чтобы их расположение, перемещение их элементов и усилие, которое оператор затрачивает на их перемещение, соответствовали выполняемым операциям и принципам эргономики.

    Constraints due to the necessary or foreseeable use of personal protection equipment (such as footwear, gloves, etc.) must be taken into account.

    Необходимо учитывать скованность движений операторов при использовании необходимых или предусмотренных средств индивидуальной защиты (таких, как специальная обувь, перчатки и др.).

    Machinery must be fitted with indicators (dials, signals, etc.) as required for safe operation. The operator must be able to read them from the control position.

    Для обеспечения безопасной эксплуатации машинное оборудование должно быть оснащено индикаторами (циферблатами, устройствами сигнализации и т. д.). Оператор должен иметь возможность считывать их с места управления.

    From the main control position the operator must be able to ensure that there are no exposed persons in the danger zones.

    Находясь в главном пункте управления, оператор должен иметь возможность контролировать отсутствие незащищенных лиц.

    If this is impossible, the control system must be designed and constructed so that an acoustic and/ or visual warning signal is given whenever the machinery is about to start.

    Если это невозможно, то система управления должна быть разработана и изготовлена так, чтобы перед каждым пуском машинного оборудования подавался звуковой и/или световой предупредительный сигнал.

    The exposed person must have the time and the means to take rapid action to prevent the machinery starting up.

         [DIRECTIVE 98/37/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL]

    Незащищенное лицо должно иметь достаточно времени и средств для быстрого предотвращения пуска машинного оборудования.
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    привод
    Устройство для приведения в действие машин и механизмов.
    Примечание
    Привод состоит из источника энергии, механизма для передачи энергии (движения) и аппаратуры управления. Источником энергии служит двигатель (тепловой, электрический, пневматический, гидравлический и др.) или устройство, отдающее заранее накопленную механическую энергию (пружинный, инерционный, гиревой механизм и др.). В некоторых случаях привод осуществляется за счет мускульной силы. По характеру распределения энергии различают групповой, индивидуальный и многодвигательный привод. По назначению привод машин разделяют на стационарный, т.е. установленный неподвижно на раме или фундаменте; передвижной, используемый на движущихся рабочих машинах; транспортный, применяемый для различных транспортных средств. В производстве применяются также гидропривод машин и пневмопривод.
    [РД 01.120.00-КТН-228-06]

    привод
    Устройство для приведения в действие машин, состоящее из двигателя, механизма передачи и системы управления
    [Терминологический словарь по строительству на 12 языках (ВНИИИС Госстроя СССР)]

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    привод контактного аппарата
    Устройство, предназначенное для создания или передачи силы, воздействующей на подвижные части контактного аппарата для выполнения функции этого аппарата.
    [ ГОСТ 17703-72]

    привод
    Устройство, предназначенное для создания и передачи силы, воздействующей на подвижные части выключателя для выполнения его функций, а также для удержания выключателя в конечном положении.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52565-2006]

    Приводы являются аппаратами для включения и удержания во включенном положении, а также отключения коммутационных аппаратов (масляного выключателя, выключателя нагрузки или разъединителя).
    С помощью приводов осуществляется ручное, автоматическое и дистанционное управление коммутационными аппаратами.

    По роду используемой энергии приводы разделяются

    • на ручные,
    • пружинные,
    • электромагнитные,
    • электродвигательные,
    • пневматические.

    По роду действия приводы бывают

    В приводах прямого действия движение включающего устройства передается непосредственно на приводной механизм выключателя в момент подачи импульса от источника энергии. Такие приводы потребляют большое количество энергии.
    В приводах косвенного действия энергия, необходимая для включения, предварительно запасается в специальных устройствах: маховиках, пружинах, грузах и т. д.
    [Цигельман И. Е. Электроснабжение гражданских зданий и коммунальных предприятий: Учеб. для электромеханич. спец. техникумов. - М.: Высш. шк. 1988.]

    Приводы служат для включения, удержания во включенном положении и отключения разъединителей и выключателей.
    Основные требования, предъявляемые к приводу выключателя, состоят в том, что каждый привод должен развивать мощность, достаточную для включения выключателя при самых тяжелых условиях работы (включение на короткое замыкание, пониженное напряжение питания), и быть быстродействующим, т. е. производить включение за весьма малый промежуток времени. При медленном включении на существующее в сети КЗ возможно приваривание контактов.
    При включении выключателя совершается большая работа по преодолению сопротивления отключающих пружин, сопротивления упругих частей контактов, трения в механизме, сопротивления масла движению подвижных частей выключателя, электродинамических сил, препятствующих включению, и др.
    При отключении привод выключателя совершает небольшую работу, необходимую только для освобождения запорного механизма, так как отключение выключателя происходит под действием его отключающих пружин.
    В зависимости от рода энергии, используемой для включения, приводы разделяются на ручные, грузовые, пружинно-грузовые, пружинные, электромагнитные, пневматические и гидравлические.

    К наиболее простым относятся ручные приводы, не требующие специального источника электроэнергии для подготовки операции включения. Однако эти приводы имеют ряд существенных недостатков: не позволяют осуществлять дистанционное включение, не могут быть применены в схемах АВР (автоматического включения резерва) и АПВ (автоматического повторного включения), требуют приложения значительной мускульной силы оператора и не позволяют получить высокие скорости подвижных контактов выключателя, необходимые при больших токах КЗ.
    Более совершенными, имеющими большие возможности, но в то же время и более сложными являются грузовые и пружинные приводы, которые обеспечивают значительно более высокие скорости включения выключателя по сравнению с ручными. Это в свою очередь позволяет увеличить включающую способность выключателя. Грузовые и пружинные приводы включают выключатель за счет заранее накопленной энергии поднятого груза или заведенной пружины. Накопление достаточного количества энергии может производиться в течение сравнительно большого промежутка времени (десятки секунд), поэтому мощность электродвигателей таких приводов может быть небольшой (0,1—0.3 кВт).

    Электромагнитные приводы включают выключатель за счет энергии включающего электромагнита. Электромагнитные приводы предназначены для работы на постоянном токе. Питание их осуществляют от аккумуляторных батарей или выпрямителей. По способу питания энергией приводы подразделяют на две группы: прямого и косвенного действия.

    У приводов прямого действия энергия, расходуемая на включение, сообщается приводу во время процесса включения. К приводам прямого действия относятся ручные с использованием мускульной силы человека и электромагнитные или соленоидные приводы. Работа приводов косвенного действия основана на предварительно запасаемой энергии. К таким приводам относятся грузовые, пружинно-грузовые и пружинные приводы, а также пневматические и гидравлические. Последние два типа приводов не нашли широкого применения для выключателей 6—10 кВ и поэтому нами не рассматриваются.
    Приводы прямого действия по конструкции более просты по сравнению с приводами косвенного действия, и в этом их преимущество. Однако поскольку приводы прямого действия питаются от источника энергии непосредственно во время процесса включения выключателя, то потребляемая ими мощность во много раз больше, чем у приводов косвенного действия. Это — существенный недостаток приводов прямого действия.
    Ко всем приводам выключателей предъявляют требование наличия механизма свободного расцепления, т. е. возможности освобождения выключателя от связи с удерживающим и заводящим механизмами привода при срабатывании отключающего устройства и отключения выключателя под действием своих отключающих пружин. Современные приводы имеют свободное расцепление почти на всем ходу контактов, т. е. практически в любой момент от начала включения может произойти отключение. Это особенно важно при включении на КЗ. В этом случае отключение произойдет в первый же момент возникновения дуги, что предотвратит опасность сильного оплавления и сваривания контактов.

    [http://forca.ru/stati/podstancii/privody-razediniteley-i-maslyanyh-vyklyuchateley-6-10-kv-i-ih-remont.html]

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    приводное устройство
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    Источник: ГОСТ Р 51731-2010: Контакторы электромеханические бытового и аналогичного назначения оригинал документа

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  • 17 secretary

    министр; секретарь

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