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  • 1 moderate increase

    1) Общая лексика: умеренный рост
    2) Деловая лексика: умеренный прирост

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > moderate increase

  • 2 moderate increase

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > moderate increase

  • 3 moderate increase in electrici

    • umereno povećanje potrošnje el

    English-Serbian dictionary > moderate increase in electrici

  • 4 increase

    [̘. ̈n.ˈɪnkri:s]
    age limit increase страх. увеличение возрастного предела appraisal increase увеличение оцениваемой стоимости capital increase прирост капитала child increase рост ребенка (в смысле взросления) considerable increase значительный рост cost increase рост стоимости cost increase увеличение стоимости deferment increase увеличение в связи с отсрочкой, рост в связи с отсрочкой (выплат и т. п.) deferred salary increase отсроченное увеличение заработной платы deferred wage increase отсроченное увеличение заработной платы demographic increase демографический рост exponential increase рост по экспоненциальному закону general rate increase (GRI) повышение общего тарифа general rate increase (GRI) повышение общей ставки heavy increase резкое увеличение increase возрастание, рост increase возрастание increase возрастать, увеличивать(ся), расти increase возрастать increase повышение increase подъем increase прибавка increase прибавление, размножение, прирост increase прибавление increase прирост increase расти increase расширение increase рост increase увеличение increase увеличиваться increase усиливать(ся) increase усиливаться increase by увеличивать на increase for a child надбавка для ребенка (напр. к пособию) increase for dependents надбавка на иждивенцев (напр. к пособию) increase in activity усиление активности increase in assets увеличение активов increase in bank lending увеличение банковской ссуды increase in capacity увеличение производственной мощности increase in capital value прирост стоимости основного капитала increase in deferred income tax увеличение отсроченного подоходного налога increase in deposits увеличение суммы вкладов increase in earning рост заработной платы increase in efficiency рост производительности increase in interest rates увеличение ставок процента increase in land value рост стоимости земли increase in lending увеличение кредитования increase in liabilities увеличение задолженности increase in liquidity рост ликвидности increase in money terms увеличение в денежном выражении increase in output рост объема производства increase in output увеличение выпуска продукции increase in percentage terms увеличение в процентном выражении increase in premium увеличение страхового взноса increase in prices повышение цен increase in production рост производства increase in protectionism усиление протекционизма increase in reserve увеличение резервного фонда increase in turnover рост товарооборота increase in value увеличение стоимости increase in value allowances увеличение скидок со стоимости increase in volume terms увеличение в объемном выражении increase in warranty reserve увеличение гарантийного резерва increase in working capital рост оборотного капитала increase of capital прирост капитала increase of equity увеличение чистой стоимости капитала за вычетом обязательств increase of exports рост экспорта increase of imports рост импорта increase of income увеличение дохода increase of indirect taxation увеличение косвенного налогообложения increase of postal rates повышение почтовых сборов increase of premium повышение страхового взноса increase of prices повышение цен increase of risk возрастание риска increase of share capital прирост акционерного капитала increase of taxation увеличение налогообложения index-linked increase индексированное повышение заработной платы index-linked payment increase индексированное увеличение платежей interest rate increase увеличение ставки процента large increase большой прирост marked increase заметный рост marked increase явный рост minimum increase минимальный прирост minute increase незначительный прирост moderate increase умеренный прирост nominal increase номинальное увеличение oil price increase повышение цены на нефть pay increase рост заработной платы pay increase увеличение заработной платы population increase естественное движение населения population increase прирост населения population increase рост численности населения price increase рост цен rate increase повышение ставки rate increase повышение тарифа rent increase повышение арендной платы rent increase рост арендной платы rent increase увеличение арендной платы salary increase рост заработной платы salary increase увеличение заработной платы sales increase увеличение сбыта shareholder value increase увеличение биржевой стоимости акции sharp increase резкое увеличение sibling increase надбавка (к пособию) на брата или сестру spouse increase увеличение (выплаты) на супругу (супруга) staff increase увеличение численности персонала steep increase резкое увеличение tax increase рост налогов twofold increase двойной прирост twofold increase увеличение в два раза value increase повышение цены value increase увеличение стоимости wage increase повышение заработной платы wage increase повышение зарплаты wage increase рост заработной платы year-on-year increase ежегодный прирост

    English-Russian short dictionary > increase

  • 5 increase

    1. ['ɪnkriːs] сущ.
    1) возрастание, рост; прибавление, прирост, размножение, разрастание, расширение, увеличение

    considerable / large / sharp / sizable / substantial increase — значительный рост

    to be on the increase — расти, увеличиваться

    Syn:
    2) увеличенное количество, прирост, надбавка
    Syn:
    2. [ɪn'kriːs] гл.
    1) возрастать, увеличиваться; расти; усиливаться

    to increase by 10% — увеличиться на 10%

    to increase in number / size / volume — увеличиваться в числе, размере, объёме

    Syn:
    2) увеличивать; усиливать

    The physician increased the dosage from one to four pills. — Врач увеличил дозу с одной таблетки до четырёх.

    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > increase

  • 6 increase

    [ɪn'krɪ:s]
    1. v
    увеличи(ва)ть(ся), усиливать(ся)
    2. n
    увеличение, возрастание; прирост

    to be on the increase — расти, увеличиваться

    2000 самых употребительных английских слов > increase

  • 7 moderate

    1 adjective ['mɒdərət]
    (a) (restrained, modest) modéré; (language) mesuré;
    a moderate wage increase une augmentation raisonnable des salaires;
    the candidate holds moderate views le candidat défend des idées modérées;
    he's a moderate drinker il boit avec modération
    (b) (average) moyen;
    pupils of moderate ability élèves mfpl moyens(ennes);
    a moderate performance une prestation moyenne
    (c) Meteorology modéré
    2 noun
    ['mɒdərət] Politics modéré(e) m,f
    3 transitive verb ['mɒdəreɪt]
    they have since moderated their demands depuis, ils ont modéré leurs exigences
    (b) (meeting, debate) présider
    (c) Nuclear (neutrons) modérer, ralentir
    4 intransitive verb ['mɒdəreɪt]
    (a) (storm) s'apaiser, se calmer
    (b) (at meeting) présider
    ►► moderate breeze (on Beaufort scale) jolie brise f;
    Computing moderated list liste f de diffusion modérée, liste f de diffusion gérée par un modérateur

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > moderate

  • 8 moderate

    1. adjective
    1) gemäßigt [Partei, Ansichten]; mäßig, maßvoll [Person, bes. Trinker, Esser; Forderungen]; mäßig [Begeisterung, Interesse]
    2) (fairly large or good) mittler... [Größe, Menge, Wert]

    [only] moderate — mäßig [Qualität, Ernte]

    3) (reasonable) angemessen, vernünftig [Preis, Summe]
    4) mäßig [Wind]
    2. noun
    Gemäßigte, der/die
    3. transitive verb
    mäßigen; zügeln [Begeisterung]; mildern [negativen Effekt]

    moderate one's demandsseine Forderungen einschränken

    4. intransitive verb
    * * *
    1. ['modəreit] verb
    (to make or become less extreme: He was forced to moderate his demands; Gradually the pain moderated.) mäßigen
    2. [-rət] adjective
    1) (keeping within reasonable limits; not extreme: The prices were moderate; moderate opinions.) angemessen
    2) (medium or average; not particularly good: workmanship of moderate quality.) mittelmäßig
    3. noun
    (a person whose views are not extreme: Politically, she's a moderate.) der/die Gemäßigte
    - academic.ru/89212/moderately">moderately
    - moderateness
    - moderation
    * * *
    mod·er·ate
    I. adj
    [ˈmɒdərət, AM ˈmɑ:dɚ-]
    1. (neither large nor small) amount, quantity, size mittlere(r, s); improvement, increase leicht, nicht allzu groß; price, speed angemessen, normal
    \moderate income durchschnittliches Einkommen
    2. (not excessive) mäßig, gemäßigt; drinker, eater mäßig, maßvoll
    \moderate climate gemäßigtes Klima
    \moderate sentence LAW milde Strafe
    3. POL gemäßigt
    \moderate views gemäßigte Ansichten
    4. (reasonable) angemessen, vernünftig
    \moderate demands angemessene Forderungen
    II. n
    [ˈmɒdərət, AM ˈmɑ:dɚ-]
    POL Gemäßigte(r) f(m)
    III. vt
    [ˈmɒdəreɪt, AM ˈmɑ:də-]
    1. (make less extreme)
    to \moderate sth etw mäßigen
    to \moderate one's voice seine Stimme senken [o dämpfen]
    to have a moderating influence on sb/sth einen mäßigenden Einfluss auf jdn/etw haben
    2. (oversee)
    to \moderate sth etw moderieren
    to \moderate a discussion eine Diskussion leiten
    to \moderate an examination den Vorsitz in einer Prüfung führen
    IV. vi
    [ˈmɒdəreɪt, AM ˈmɑ:də-]
    sich akk mäßigen; fever, wind nachlassen
    * * *
    ['mɒdərIt]
    1. adj
    gemäßigt (ALSO POL); appetite, enjoyment, lifestyle, speed, increase mäßig; gain, improvement leicht; demands, price vernünftig, angemessen; drinker, eater maßvoll; income, success (mittel)mäßig, bescheiden; punishment, winter mild

    moderate-sized, of moderate size —

    in a moderate ovenim Backofen bei mittlerer Hitze

    2. n (POL)
    Gemäßigte(r) mf ['mɒdəreɪt]
    3. vt
    1) (= attenuate) demands, position, behaviour mäßigen
    2) meeting, discussion den Vorsitz führen bei; (TV, RAD) moderieren['mɒdəreɪt]
    4. vi
    1) nachlassen, sich mäßigen; (wind etc) nachlassen, sich abschwächen; (demands) gemäßigter werden
    2) (in meeting, discussion) den Vorsitz führen; (TV, RAD) moderieren
    * * *
    moderate [ˈmɒdərət; US ˈmɑ-]
    A adj (adv moderately)
    1. mäßig:
    a) gemäßigt (auch Sprache etc), zurückhaltend:
    be moderate in drinking maßvoll im Trinken sein, im Trinken maßhalten
    b) einfach, frugal (Lebensweise)
    c) mittelmäßig
    d) gering (Interesse etc):
    moderately successful mäßig erfolgreich
    e) vernünftig, angemessen, niedrig (Forderungen, Preise etc)
    2. POL gemäßigt
    3. mild (Strafe, Winter etc)
    B s Gemäßigte(r) m/f(m) ( auch POL)
    C v/t [-reıt]
    1. mäßigen, mildern:
    moderate one’s language sich mäßigen
    2. beruhigen
    3. einschränken, abmildern
    4. PHYS, TECH dämpfen, abbremsen:
    moderate the volume of one’s TV set sein Fernsehgerät auf Zimmerlautstärke stellen
    5. eine Versammlung etc leiten
    D v/i
    1. sich mäßigen
    2. sich beruhigen, nachlassen (Wind etc)
    3. moderate over C 5
    mod abk
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) gemäßigt [Partei, Ansichten]; mäßig, maßvoll [Person, bes. Trinker, Esser; Forderungen]; mäßig [Begeisterung, Interesse]
    2) (fairly large or good) mittler... [Größe, Menge, Wert]

    [only] moderate — mäßig [Qualität, Ernte]

    3) (reasonable) angemessen, vernünftig [Preis, Summe]
    4) mäßig [Wind]
    2. noun
    Gemäßigte, der/die
    3. transitive verb
    mäßigen; zügeln [Begeisterung]; mildern [negativen Effekt]
    4. intransitive verb
    * * *
    adj.
    angemessen adj.
    gemäßigt adj.
    mittelmäßig adj.
    mäßig adj.

    English-german dictionary > moderate

  • 9 moderate

    mod·er·ate adj [ʼmɒdərət, Am ʼmɑ:dɚ-]
    1) ( neither large nor small) amount, quantity, size mittlere(r, s); improvement, increase leicht, nicht allzu groß; price, speed angemessen, normal;
    \moderate income durchschnittliches Einkommen
    2) ( not excessive) mäßig, gemäßigt; drinker, eater mäßig, maßvoll;
    \moderate climate gemäßigtes Klima;
    \moderate sentence law milde Strafe
    3) pol gemäßigt;
    \moderate views gemäßigte Ansichten
    4) ( reasonable) angemessen, vernünftig;
    \moderate demands angemessene Forderungen n [ʼmɒdərət, Am ʼmɑ:dɚ-] pol Gemäßigte(r) f(m) vt [ʼmɒdəreɪt, Am ʼmɑ:də-]
    to \moderate sth etw mäßigen;
    to \moderate one's voice seine Stimme senken [o dämpfen];
    to have a moderating influence on sb/ sth einen mäßigenden Einfluss auf jdn/etw haben
    2) ( oversee)
    to \moderate sth etw moderieren;
    to \moderate a discussion eine Diskussion leiten;
    to \moderate an examination den Vorsitz in einer Prüfung führen vi [ʼmɒdəreɪt, Am ʼmɑ:də-] sich akk mäßigen; fever, wind nachlassen

    English-German students dictionary > moderate

  • 10 עלייה מתונה

    moderate increase

    Hebrew-English dictionary > עלייה מתונה

  • 11 умеренный прирост

    Русско-английский словарь по экономии > умеренный прирост

  • 12 umereno povećanje potrošnje el

    • moderate increase in electrici

    Serbian-English dictionary > umereno povećanje potrošnje el

  • 13 умеренный рост

    1) General subject: moderate increase
    2) Economy: healthy increase
    3) Business: moderate growth

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > умеренный рост

  • 14 умеренный прирост

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > умеренный прирост

  • 15 Preis

    Preis m (Pr.) GEN charge, price, pr. alles hat seinen Preis GEN, MGT (infrml) there is no such thing as a free lunch die Preise frisieren BÖRSE (infrml) fake the marks, (infrml) doctor the prices die Preise gaben nach GEN prices receded (Volumen) die Preise sind herabgesetzt worden BÖRSE prices have been marked down Preis (ist) Verhandlungssache rate to be agreed, r.t.b.a. Preise hochschrauben V&M push up prices Preise hochtreiben V&M push up prices Preise reduzieren V&M cut prices, reduce prices, sink prices sich durch zu hohe Preise vom Markt ausschließen V&M price oneself out of the market sich nach dem besten Preis umsehen V&M shop around for the best price unter Preis anbieten V&M underprice unter Preis angeboten V&M underpriced unter Preis verkaufen V&M undercut zu Preisen zwischen x und y GEN at prices ranging from x to y
    * * *
    m (Pr.) < Geschäft> charge, price (pr.) ■ alles hat seinen Preis <Geschäft, Mgmnt> there is no such thing as a free lunch infrml ■ die Preise frisieren infrml < Börse> fake the marks infrml, doctor the prices infrml ■ die Preise gaben nach < Geschäft> Volumen prices receded ■ die Preise sind herabgesetzt worden < Börse> prices have been marked down ■ Preise hochschrauben <V&M> push up prices ■ Preise hochtreiben <V&M> push up prices ■ Preise reduzieren <V&M> cut prices, reduce prices, sink prices ■ sich durch zu hohe Preise vom Markt ausschließen <V&M> price oneself out of the market ■ sich nach dem besten Preis umsehen <V&M> shop around for the best price ■ unter Preis anbieten <V&M> underprice ■ unter Preis angeboten <V&M> underpriced ■ unter Preis verkaufen <V&M> undercut ■ zu Preisen zwischen x und y < Geschäft> at prices ranging from x to y
    * * *
    Preis
    price, (Belohnung) reward, premium, (Fahrgeld) fare, (Gebühr) charge, fee, (Kosten) cost[s], expense, price, (Satz) rate, figure, (Summe) amount, sum, (Tarif) rate, tariff, charge, (Wert) value, (im Wettbewerb) prize, award;
    auf der Grundlage der Preise vom Jahr 2002 at 2002 survey prices;
    bei anziehenden Preisen in a rising market, with attractive prices;
    bei sinkenden Preisen by (with) declining prices, at prices dropping;
    bis zum Preise von as high as;
    durch überhöhte Preise aus dem Markt gedrängt priced out of the market;
    mit Preisen versehen priced, price-tagged;
    niedrig im Preis low-priced;
    um jeden Preis for love of money;
    unter [dem Selbstkosten] Preis priced below cost;
    zu erhöhten Preisen at a higher price;
    zu ermäßigten Preisen at reduced (cut) prices;
    zu bedeutend ermäßigten Preisen at a sweeping reduction;
    zu festem Preis at a firm rate;
    zu herabgesetztem Preis at a reduced price, reduced, cut-price, at reduced rates, (Taxpreis) at a damaged valuation;
    zu teuren Preisen at a high cost;
    zu überhöhten Preisen eingekauft dear-bought, bought at excessive cost;
    zu unerschwinglichen Preisen at prices beyond one’s means;
    zu unveränderten Preisen at unchanged prices;
    zu einem vereinbarten Preis at an arranged price;
    zu zurückgesetztem Preis at a reduced price;
    zu einem Preis von etwa 10 Pfund at a cost of roughly L 10;
    zum Preise von costing, at the charge (rate) of;
    zum ermäßigten Preis at a lower rate;
    zum festgesetzten Preis at the given price;
    zum amtlich festgesetzten Preis at the established price;
    zum halben Preis at half price, for half the price;
    zum niedrigsten Preis dirt-cheap;
    zum vereinbarten Preis at the understood price;
    in verbindlichen Angeboten abgegebene Preise prices quoted in tenders;
    [vertraglich] abgemachter (abgesprochener, abgestimmter) Preis settled (stipulated) price, price agreed upon [by arrangement];
    abweichende Preise diverging prices;
    von der Preisliste abweichender Preis irregular price;
    überhöhter, vom Kunden akzeptierter Preis class price;
    allerniedrigster Preis rock-bottom price;
    amtlicher Preis official price;
    nicht amtlicher Preis (Börse) sidewalk price (US);
    angebotener Preis price offered;
    verbindlich angebotene Preise prices quoted in tenders;
    angegebener (angesetzter) Preis quoted price;
    auf der Rechnung angegebener Preis invoice[d] price;
    angehobener Preis advanced price;
    angemessener Preis reasonable (fair, adequate, equitable) price;
    annehmbarer Preis fair rate (price), reasonable price (terms);
    ansteigende Preise increasing prices;
    anziehender Preis attractive price;
    nachstehend aufgeführte Preise prices specified below;
    augenblicklicher Preis market price;
    vertraglich ausbedungener Preis price agreed upon, contract price;
    ausgehandelte Preise prices negotiated;
    ausgemachter Preis settled price, price agreed upon;
    ausgesetzter Preis offered price;
    ausgezeichneter Preis marked price;
    auskömmlicher Preis paying price;
    äußerster Preis rock-bottom (close, bedrock) price, cut rate, lowest computation (possible price), (Auktion) knockdown price;
    künstlich beeinflusster Preis manipulated price;
    vor Verkaufsbeginn von der Konkurrenz bekannt gegebener Preis open price;
    äußerst niedrig berechneter Preis rock-bottom price;
    bescheidene Preise moderate prices;
    vom Hersteller bestimmte Preise prices laid down by the manufacturer;
    beweglicher Preis elastic (flexible) price;
    bewirtschafteter Preis administered price;
    billiger Preis budget (moderate, low) price;
    bisheriger Preis previous rate;
    cif-Preis cif price;
    davonlaufende Preise prices running away;
    Herstellungs- und Generalkosten deckender Preis overhead price;
    nicht die Selbstkosten deckender Preis losing price;
    stark divergierende Preise wide prices;
    doppelter Preis (Anzeige) double rate;
    durchschnittlicher Preis average price;
    echter Preis commercial price;
    effektiver Preis real (actual) price;
    eingefrorene Preise frozen prices, price rigidity;
    eingependelter Preis established price;
    einheitlicher Preis uniform (standard) price;
    empfohlener Preis reference (suggested, recommended) price;
    über das Lohnniveau emporschnellende Preis prices outsoaring the wages;
    enormer Preis huge (ruinous) price;
    erhöhter Preis increased (inflated, higher, enhanced) price;
    ermäßigter Preis reduced (short, cut) price;
    Sicherungsvorschuss erschöpfender Preis (Termingeschäft) exhaust price;
    [tatsächlich] erzielter Preis price obtained, actual price;
    exorbitanter Preis exorbitant price;
    fakturierter Preis invoice[d] price;
    fallende Preise dropping (sagging, declining, receding, falling-off) prices;
    feste Preise standing (fixed, flat, steady) prices, (Schaufenster) no abatement (discount, reduction);
    fester Preis fixed (firm, standing) price;
    künstlich festgelegter Preis administered price;
    vertraglich festgelegter Preis stipulated price;
    festgesetzter Preis stated (fixed) price;
    amtlich festgesetzter Preis administered (controlled) price, price as fixed by the authorities;
    vertraglich festgesetzter Preis fixed contract price;
    fingierter Preis fictitious price;
    Frei-Grenze-Preis free-at-frontier price;
    Preis freibleibend, freibleibender Preis price subject to change without notice;
    friedensmäßige Preise prices at peace-time level;
    früherer Preis previous price;
    gangbarer Preis prevailing price;
    gängiger Preis salable price;
    garantierter Preis guaranteed price;
    gebotener Preis offer, bid (offered) price;
    gebundener Preis fixed (fixed-selling, maintained, controlled) price, (Einzelhandel) fixed (minimum) resale price, (Kartell) fixed cartel price;
    geforderter Preis asked price, charge;
    gegenwärtiger Preis ruling (current, prevailing, actual, market) price;
    künstlich gehaltener Preis pegged price;
    mit einem Index gekoppelter Preis index-linked price;
    gelenkter Preis controlled price;
    geltender Preis prevailing (ruling) price;
    augenblicklich geltender Preis ruling (present, going, market, current) price;
    in der ganzen Industrie geltender Preis industry-wide price;
    genauester Preis nearest price;
    genehmigter Preis approved price;
    genormter Preis standardized price;
    gepfefferte Preise steep prices;
    zu geringer Preis underrated price;
    gestaffelter Preis graduated (scheduled) price;
    gesteuerter Preis manipulated price;
    gestoppter Preis stop price;
    gestützter Preis pegged (support[ed]) price;
    gesunkener Preis reduced (diminished, dropped, sagged) price;
    gewöhnlicher Preis customary charge, common price (charge);
    für den Fortschritt gezahlter Preis price paid for progress;
    gleitender Preis price subject to amendment, escalation (sliding-scale) price;
    [augenblicklich] gültiger Preis going (current, market) price;
    allgemein gültiger Preis allround price;
    im internen Verrechnungsverkehr gültiger Preis internal price;
    günstige Preise favo(u)rable terms (prices);
    günstiger Preis favo(u)rable (attractive) price;
    sehr günstiger Preis highly concessional price;
    halber Preis half price;
    handelsüblicher Preis market (ruling) price;
    herabgesetzter Preis reduced (marked-down, cut rate) price;
    nicht herabgesetzter Preis full price;
    heraufgesetzter Preis put-up (marked-up) price;
    hochgestochener Preis high-flying price;
    höchster Preis ceiling (maximum) price, price ceiling;
    hoher Preis long (high, advanced) price;
    besonders hoher Preis extra high price;
    entschieden zu hohe Preise definitely too high prices;
    unverhältnismäßig hoher Preis excessive price;
    inflationistische (inflationäre) Preise inflationary prices;
    inländischer Preis domestic (home-market) price;
    jetzige Preise current prices;
    kalkulierter Preis calculated price;
    äußerst kalkulierter Preis rock-bottom price;
    niedrigst kalkulierter Preis bargain level;
    scharf kalkulierter Preis price cut very fine, cut-rate (close) price;
    knappheitsbedingter Preis scarcity price;
    konkurrenzfähiger Preis competitive (keener) price;
    nicht konkurrenzfähiger Preis uncompetitive price;
    konkurrenzloser Preis unrival(l)ed (unmatched) price;
    konstante Preise constant prices, price stability;
    kostendeckender Preis price covering the costs of production;
    kriminelle Preise cutthroat prices;
    laufender Preis ruling price;
    zugrunde zu legender Preis price to be considered;
    leidlicher Preis fairly good price;
    letzte Preise previous rates;
    letzter Preis lowest limit (price);
    limitierter Preis limited price;
    lohnender (lukrativer) Preis remunerative (paying) price;
    manipulierter Preis managed (manipulated) price;
    marktentscheidender Preis key price;
    marktgängige Preise usual market prices;
    marktgemäßer (marktgerechter) Preis fair market price;
    marktkonformer Preis full economic price;
    mäßiger Preis moderate (reasonable) price;
    minimaler Preis minimum price;
    mittlerer Preis average price;
    mörderischer Preis cutthroat (ruinously high) price;
    nachbörsliche Preise street (kerb) prices (Br.), outside (curb, US) prices;
    nachfragebedingter Preis demand-led price;
    nachgebende Preise easing (falling, sagging, receding) prices;
    niedriger Preis low price, undercharge;
    äußerst niedrige Preise keen prices;
    niedrigster Preis bottom ( lowest possible, minimum) price, bargain level;
    nomineller Preis nominal price;
    notierter Preis market (quoted, listed, US) value;
    fortlaufend notierter Preis consecutively quoted price;
    obiger Preis above quotation;
    optischer Preis charm price;
    ortsüblicher Preis customary (local) price;
    populäre Preise popular prices;
    psychologische Preise psychological price [point];
    purzelnde Preise tumbling prices;
    reduzierter Preis reduced (short, cut) price;
    äußerst reduzierter Preis lowest [possible] rate;
    reeller Preis fair (moderate) price;
    regulärer Preis regular price;
    regulierter Preis administered price;
    richtiger Preis adequate price;
    rückgängige Preise dropping (sagging, declining) prices;
    rückläufige Preise retrograde (receding, declining, falling, drooping) prices;
    ruinöser Preis ruinous (cutthroat) price;
    saisonbedingter Preis seasonal price;
    in die Höhe schnellende Preise soaring prices;
    ganz schöner Preis smart price (coll.);
    schwacher Preis weak price;
    schwankende Preise varying (fluctuating) prices;
    sinkende Preise sagging (declining, falling) prices;
    solider Preis moderate (fair) price;
    spekulativer Preis speculative price;
    spottbilliger Preis ridiculously low price;
    stabiler Preis steady (stable, settled, stationary, firm, sticky, US) price;
    starrer Preis rigid price;
    stehender Preis fixed price;
    steigende Preise increasing (rising, advancing) prices;
    langsam steigende Preise creeping prices;
    schnell steigende Preise soaring (booming) prices;
    sprunghaft steigende Preise soaring prices;
    subventionierter Preis subsidized (support[ed], pegged) price;
    nicht subventionierter Preis full economic price;
    tatsächlicher Preis actual price;
    tragbarer Preis reasonable price;
    überhöhter Preis class (stiff, coll., excessive, exaggerated, prohibitive) price;
    künstlich überhöhte Preise inflated (artificially high) prices;
    übermäßiger Preis exorbitant price;
    übersetzter Preis exaggerated (overcharged) price;
    üblicher Preis market (current, customary) price, customer charge;
    unabhängiger Preis free price;
    vom Lieferort unabhängiger Preis uniform delivered price (US);
    unangemessener Preis unreasonable price;
    unbescheidener Preis unreasonable price;
    unbeschränkter Preis unlimited price;
    unelastischer Preis rigid price;
    unerhörter Preis fabulous price;
    unerschwinglicher Preis prohibitive price;
    ungebundener Preis free (uncontrolled) price;
    unterschiedliche Preise discriminating prices;
    unterschwelliger Preis submarginal price;
    untragbare Preise prohibitive prices;
    unveränderte Preise unchanged rates (prices);
    unverbindliche Preise prices subject to alteration (without commitment);
    unverschämter Preis steep (outrageous, exorbitant) price;
    völlig unzulänglicher Preis inadequate price;
    verbindlicher Preis operative price;
    [vertraglich] vereinbarter Preis price agreed upon [by arrangement], stipulated (agreed, contract) price;
    vertretbarer Preis comparable price;
    volkstümlicher Preis popular price;
    voller Preis full price;
    vorgeschriebener Preis administered price;
    vorheriger Preis previous price;
    vorteilhafte Preise attractive prices;
    weichende Preise sagging (declining, retroactive, falling) prices;
    wettbewerbsfähiger Preis competitive price;
    willkürlicher Preis arbitrary price;
    zivile Preise moderate (reasonable) prices, moderate charges;
    auf den Höchstpreis zurückgesetzter Preis rollback price (US);
    Preis bei der Anlieferung landed cost;
    Preis für eine doppelseitige Anzeige in Heftmitte center- (centre-, Br.) spread price;
    Preis für vierfarbige Anzeigen 4-colo(u)r rate;
    Preis laut gültigem Anzeigentarif rate-card price;
    Preis bei Barzahlung cash price;
    Preis in Bausch und Bogen allround (overhead) price;
    Preise einschließlich Bedienung (Restaurant) terms inclusive of service;
    Preise unter Berücksichtigung der Qualität prices adjusted to quality;
    Preis frei Bestimmungshafen landed cost (price);
    Preis zur Einführung eines Produktes early-bird price;
    Preis per Einheit unit price;
    Preis für den Endverbraucher price for the ultimate consumer;
    Preise für Endverbraucher incl. Mehrwertsteuer (Mwst.) prices inclusive of VAT;
    Preis ab Erzeuger factory price;
    Preise der Erzeugnisse product (producer’s) prices;
    Preise landwirtschaftlicher Erzeugnisse agricultural (farm) prices;
    Preis ab Fabrik factory-gate price;
    Preis des trockenen Gedecks (Hotel) price of the dinner excluding wine; Preis
    einschließlich Gemeinkosten overhead price;
    Preis frei Grenze (EU) free-to-frontier price;
    Preis für Güter und Dienstleistungen cost of goods and services;
    Preis zweiter Hand secondhand price;
    Preis frei Haus delivered-in price, in-the-mail price;
    Preis einschließlich aller Kosten allround price;
    Preis einschließlich (incl.) sämtlicher Kosten bis zum Schiff, Preis frei Längsseite Schiff free alongside ship price, price free alongside ship;
    Preis ab Lager ex-store price; Preis
    einschließlich Lieferkosten delivered price;
    Preis für künftige Lieferung forward (terminal, Br.) price;
    Preis bei sofortiger Lieferung price ex store, spot quotation;
    Preis eines Markenerzeugnisses brand price;
    Preise verstehen sich einschließlich Mehrwertsteuer prices include value-added tax (VAT);
    Preis für greifbare Mengen spot price;
    Preise bei Mengenabnahme prices shaded for quantities;
    Preis mit Mengenrabatt quantity (multi-unit, Br.) price;
    Preis einschließlich Porto und Verpackung price inclusive of postage and packing;
    Preise für eine Produktfamilie price combination (Br.);
    Preis bei Ratenzahlung hire-purchase (Br.) (time, deferred-payment, US) price;
    Preis außerhalb der Saison off-season price;
    Preis ab Schacht pithead price;
    Preis ab Speicher ex-warehouse price;
    Preis für Stromverbrauch electricity rate;
    Preis pro Stück unit price;
    Preise nach dem Tarif tariff rates;
    Preis für Termingeschäfte futures price (US);
    Preis für Übernachtung und Frühstück price for bed and breakfast;
    Preis unverzollt price ex tax;
    Preis ist Verhandlungssache price is a matter for negotiation;
    Preis ohne Verpackung price excluding packing;
    Preis ab Versandbahnhof at-station price;
    Preise für Vorsteuerabzugsberechtigte prices exclusive of VAT;
    Preis für unverzollte Ware im Zolllager in-bond price;
    Preis auf dem Weltmarkt world price;
    Preis ab Werk price ex works, trade (factory) price;
    Preis unter dem Wert underprice;
    Preis für Wiederverkäufer discount price;
    Preis ab Zeche pithead price;
    Preise in Zeiten der Hochkonjunktur boomtime prices;
    Preise abbauen to cut (reduce) prices;
    Preis abflachen to flatten prices;
    vom Preis abhandeln to obtain a reduction;
    zum alten Preis ablassen to charge the old price;
    Preise absprechen to settle prices;
    jem. einen Preis für etw. abverlangen to charge s. o. a price for s. th.;
    auf die Preise abwälzen to pass on prices;
    vom Preis abziehen to knock off the price;
    Preise angeben to quote (state) prices;
    äußersten Preis angeben to quote the outside price;
    Preise auch in Euro angeben to mark prices also in euros;
    Preise wahrheitsgemäß angeben to state prices truthfully;
    Preise angleichen to adjust prices;
    Preise schrittweise angleichen (EU) to approximate prices progressively;
    Preise anheben to jack up (coll.) (increase) prices;
    Preise anpassen to adjust (align) prices;
    Preis ansetzen to price;
    im Preis aufschlagen to go (run) higher, to put on the price;
    hohe Preise aufzwingen to corner;
    Preis aushandeln to negotiate a price;
    Preis ausmachen to agree upon a price;
    Preis aussetzen to put a premium (prize) on;
    Preis für jds. Kopf aussetzen to put a price on s. one’s head;
    mit einem Preis auszeichnen to distinguish with a prize;
    mit einem höheren Preis auszeichnen to mark up;
    Preise beeinflussen to influence prices;
    seinen Preis beibehalten to hold its price;
    in einem Wettbewerb den ersten Preis bekommen to obtain the first prize in a competition;
    etw. zu einem exorbitanten Preis bekommen to obtain s. th. at a ransom price;
    Preis berechnen to arrive at (calculate) a price;
    alten Preis berechnen to charge the old price;
    jem. einen zu hohen Preis berechnen to overcharge s. o.;
    niedrige Preise berechnen to ask moderate prices;
    Preis bestimmen to fix (go into, determine) a price;
    angemessenen Preis für etw. bezahlen to buy s. th. for what it is worth;
    doppelten Preis bezahlen to pay double the price;
    Preis bieten to offer a price;
    angemessenen Preis bieten to bid a fair price;
    Preise durcheinander bringen to put a crimp in prices (sl.);
    Preis davontragen to carry the day (away the bell), to take the cake;
    Preise drücken to bring (run, beat, coll.) down (bang) prices, to cut off prices;
    Preise einfrieren to freeze prices (US);
    sich auf einen Preis einigen to agree upon a price;
    Preis empfehlen to recommend (suggest) a price;
    sich durch überhöhte Preise den Markt entfremden to price o. s. out of the market;
    Preis erfragen to enquire about the price;
    Preis erhöhen to advance (raise, put up, increase, spike) a price;
    Preise sprunghaft erhöhen to jump prices;
    Preise immer weiter erhöhen to pyramid prices;
    sich nach dem Preis erkundigen to ask (enquire about) the price;
    Preis ermäßigen to bring down (decrease) a price;
    Preis ermitteln to arrive at a price;
    Preis erreichen (erzielen) to realize (obtain, reach) a price;
    bessere Preise erzielen to secure higher prices;
    im Preis fallen to sag in price, to depreciate;
    um den Preis feilschen to haggle over (about) the price;
    Preis festlegen (festsetzen, feststellen) to price, to quote (determine, make, arrive at, ascertain, name, fix, lay down) a price, to tariff;
    Preis amtlich festlegen (festsetzen) to establish a price;
    Preise entsprechend dem amtlichen Preisindex festsetzen to gear prices to formulas based on government price indexes;
    als Preis fordern to charge (name) a price, to tax (US);
    nach dem Preis fragen to enquire about (ask) the price;
    Preise freigeben to release (decontrol) prices;
    Preis genehmigen to approve of a price;
    Preis gewinnen to obtain (win) a prize;
    ersten Preis auf einer Landwirtschaftsausstellung gewinnen to take the first prize at an agricultural show;
    höchste Preise bei einem Wettbewerb gewinnen to win top hono(u)rs in a competition;
    seinen Preis haben to have a certain value;
    Auswirkungen auf die Preise haben to have repercussions on prices;
    verschiedene Preise haben to differ in price;
    auf Preise halten to stick to prices;
    sich weitgehend an die festgesetzten Preise halten to keep as near as possible to the prices quoted;
    sich im Preis halten to hold up its price;
    Preis auf einer amtlich festgesetzten Höhe halten to freeze a price (US);
    Preise niedrig halten to keep prices down, to hold down prices
    Preise stabil halten to hold the line on prices;
    Preis herabdrücken to bring (force) down (depress, send, squeeze down) the price;
    Preis herabsetzen to abate (sink, bring down, mark down) a price, to cheapen;
    Preise stark herabsetzen to chop prices;
    Preise stillschweigend herabsetzen to cut prices on the quiet;
    Preis heraufsetzen to put up (increase) a price;
    Preise herauftreiben to jump up prices;
    Preise herunterdrücken to bring (force, send, squeeze) down (screw) prices;
    mit dem Preis heruntergehen to reduce the price;
    Preis herunterhandeln to get a price reduced, to beat down a price (coll.);
    Preise hinaufschrauben to level (screw, send) up prices, to rig the market;
    Preise hinauftreiben to boost prices;
    Preise hochhalten to keep prices up;
    Preis hochschrauben to screw up (lift) prices;
    Preise hochtreiben to boost (puff up) prices, to bull (rig, Br.) the market;
    sich einen Preis holen to land a prize (coll.);
    Preis kalkulieren to arrive at (make out, calculate) a price;
    Preise schärfstens kalkulieren to cut prices to the minimum;
    Preis sehr vorsichtig kalkulieren to establish a price at a low level;
    zu festen Preisen kaufen to buy firm (on the scale);
    etw. zu herabgesetzten Preis kaufen to buy s. th. at a bargain;
    unter Preis kaufen to underbuy;
    völlig unsinnigen Preis kosten to cost prohibitively high;
    Preise lenken to control prices;
    unter dem Preis losschlagen to sell under value, to let go under price;
    zu jedem Preis losschlagen to sell at a sacrifice;
    Preis mindern to reduce a price;
    [vom] Preis nachlassen to take off the (make an allowance upon, make a reduction in, abate a) price;
    Preis nennen to indicate (name) a price;
    mit der Ladenkasse den Preis notieren to ring up the price;
    Preis realisieren to obtain a price;
    Preis reduzieren to lower (reduce) a price;
    Preis regulieren to control a price;
    nicht auf den Preis sehen not to consider the price;
    mit einem Preis einverstanden sein to be willing to pay a price;
    im Preis konkurrenzfähig sein to be competitively priced;
    Preis senken to lower (reduce) a price;
    Preis drastisch senken to slash a price dramatically;
    Preise durch Subventionsmaßnahmen senken to roll back prices (US);
    im Preise sinken to look down[wards], to run off;
    Preise stabilisieren to stabilize prices;
    im Preis stehen to be worth;
    hoch im Preis stehen to command a high price;
    im Preis steigen to increase (advance, enhance, go up) in price, to get (run) up, to bull;
    im Preis steigern to raise price;
    Preise stützen to peg (buttress, support, US) prices;
    Preise in die Höhe treiben to drive up the prices, to bid up [prices], to rig the market;
    Preise überbieten to outbid prices;
    amtlich festgelegten Preis überschreiten to sell s. th. above the established price;
    Preise unterbieten (verderben) to undercut (cut s. one’s) prices;
    Preis vereinbaren to agree upon (negotiate) a price;
    über einen Preis verhandeln to negotiate a price;
    zu einem festen Preis verkaufen to sell at a fixed price;
    etw. zum halben Preis verkaufen to sell s. th. half-price;
    zu höheren als den amtlich festgesetzten Preisen verkaufen to sell above the established prices;
    zu niedrigerem Preis verkaufen to sell under value, to undersell;
    über Preis verkaufen to sell s. th. above the established price;
    unter Preis verkaufen to sell under price;
    zu einem vernünftigen Preis verkaufen to sell at a reasonable rate;
    Preis verlangen to demand a price;
    zu hohen Preis verlangen to overprice;
    während der Saison enorm hohe Preise verlangen to stick it on during the busy season;
    zu hohe Preise für eine Lieferung verlangen to overcharge goods;
    mit einem Preis versehen to price;
    Preise verteilen to distribute (present) the prizes;
    im Preise billiger werden to decline in price;
    zu wettbewerbsfähigen Preisen von der landwirtschaftlichen Bevölkerung erzeugt werden to be produced at competitive prices by the farming population;
    durch hohe Preise vom Markt verdrängt werden to be priced out of the market;
    ermäßigte Preise durch große Umsätze wettmachen to sell at a low price and recoup o. s. by large sales;
    vollen Preis zahlen to pay full fare;
    im Preis zurückgehen to be on the decline;
    Preise gelten nur bei postwendender Bestellung prices valid subject to immediate acceptance;
    Frühstück ist im Preis einbezogen the terms are inclusive of breakfast;
    die Preise sind ins Bodenlose gesunken the bottom has fallen out of the market;
    der Preis spielt keine Rolle price is no object;
    der Preis unterliegt einem Rabatt von fünf Prozent the price is subject to a discount of five percent;
    Preise ziehen heftig (kräftig) an prices rise sharply;
    Preisabbau price cut, cut in (cutting of, fall in, decline in, reduction of, lowering of) prices;
    Preisabfall decline in prices;
    Preis abkommen, Preisabmachung price[-fixing] agreement;
    staatliches Preisabkommen price code (Br.);
    Preis- und Förderungsabkommen (OPEC) agreement on pricing and production;
    Preisabnahme fall (drop, decline) in prices;
    Preisabrede price [-fixing] agreement, pricing arrangement;
    Preisabschlag discount, allowance, price deduction (reduction), abatement;
    jem. einen Preisabschlag einräumen (gewähren) to allow a reduced price to s. o., to make an allowance on the (a reduction in) price;
    durchschnittlicher Preisabschlag von 3% bei hundert Grundnahrungsmitteln erzwingen to trim 3% on average off the prices of some 100 basic items;
    Preisabschwächung easing (sagging) of prices, price weakness;
    Preisabsprache price agreement (arrangement, scheme), (Kartell) price fixing;
    verbotene Preisabsprache illegal price fixing;
    Preisabstand disparity in prices, margin;
    Preisabstufung graduation of prices;
    Preisabweichung price (value) variance, price difference;
    Preisaktion price action;
    Preisänderung price change (variance, modifications, alterations), alteration in price;
    Preisänderungen vorbehalten subject to alterations, prices subject to change without notice;
    relative Preisänderung proportionate change in price;
    Preisänderungsklausel repricing clause;
    Preisänderungsmitteilung price-change slip;
    Preisanfrage inquiry as to price, price inquiry, request for quotation.

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  • 16 moderado

    adj.
    1 moderate, abstinent, abstemious, even-tempered.
    Es un hombre muy medido He is a very frugal [measured] man.
    2 moderate, gentle.
    3 discrete.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: moderar.
    * * *
    1 moderate
    nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 moderate
    * * *
    (f. - moderada)
    noun adj.
    * * *
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < temperatura> moderate; < precio> reasonable; <ideología/facción> moderate
    II
    - da masculino, femenino moderate
    * * *
    = gentle [gentler -comp., gentlest -sup.], mild, moderate, middle-ground, restrained, low-key [low key], temperate, moderate, moderated, sparing, low-keyed, guarded, measured.
    Ex. Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as she recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.
    Ex. If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour (green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.
    Ex. In his efforts to broaden the tax base, Groome has been actively courting industry - with some moderate success.
    Ex. Beginning with a middle-ground strategy may offer the best balance between Recall and Precision.
    Ex. The stereotype of the governess as exemplified in Jane Eyre -- intelligent, restrained, soberly clad -- was the predecessor of the librarian as an occupation in which the women of the period, the 'guardians of morality' could find genteel employment.
    Ex. Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex. Being on the ocean means that Boston's climate is temperate in the summer.
    Ex. This paper examines the ways in which extremists and moderates in the two communities frame the televised representation of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
    Ex. this paper discusses some of the issues involved in using electronic mailing lists and listservs and describes 2 basic types of listservs: open lists; controlled lists and moderated lists.
    Ex. The committee was very sparing in its recommendations of proposals for debate.
    Ex. Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
    Ex. Britain has given a guarded response to Myanmar's announcement that a referendum will be held on a new constitution in May.
    Ex. This will move the debate about open access as a model for scholarly communication towards a more measured and nuanced discourse.
    ----
    * optimismo moderado = guarded optimism.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < temperatura> moderate; < precio> reasonable; <ideología/facción> moderate
    II
    - da masculino, femenino moderate
    * * *
    = gentle [gentler -comp., gentlest -sup.], mild, moderate, middle-ground, restrained, low-key [low key], temperate, moderate, moderated, sparing, low-keyed, guarded, measured.

    Ex: Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as she recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.

    Ex: If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour (green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.
    Ex: In his efforts to broaden the tax base, Groome has been actively courting industry - with some moderate success.
    Ex: Beginning with a middle-ground strategy may offer the best balance between Recall and Precision.
    Ex: The stereotype of the governess as exemplified in Jane Eyre -- intelligent, restrained, soberly clad -- was the predecessor of the librarian as an occupation in which the women of the period, the 'guardians of morality' could find genteel employment.
    Ex: Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex: Being on the ocean means that Boston's climate is temperate in the summer.
    Ex: This paper examines the ways in which extremists and moderates in the two communities frame the televised representation of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
    Ex: this paper discusses some of the issues involved in using electronic mailing lists and listservs and describes 2 basic types of listservs: open lists; controlled lists and moderated lists.
    Ex: The committee was very sparing in its recommendations of proposals for debate.
    Ex: Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
    Ex: Britain has given a guarded response to Myanmar's announcement that a referendum will be held on a new constitution in May.
    Ex: This will move the debate about open access as a model for scholarly communication towards a more measured and nuanced discourse.
    * optimismo moderado = guarded optimism.

    * * *
    moderado1 -da
    1 ‹temperatura› moderate; ‹precio› reasonable
    2 ‹ideología/facción› moderate
    3 ‹persona/comportamiento› restrained
    moderado2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    moderate
    * * *

    Del verbo moderar: ( conjugate moderar)

    moderado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
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    moderar
    moderado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a)persona/comportamiento restrained


    precio reasonable;
    ideología/facción moderate
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    moderate
    moderar ( conjugate moderar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a)impulsos/aspiraciones to curb, moderate;


    b)gasto/consumo to curb;

    velocidad to reduce
    2debate/coloquio to moderate, chair
    moderarse verbo pronominal:
    modérate, estás comiendo mucho restrain yourself o (colloq) go easy, you're eating too much;

    moderadose en los gastos to cut down on spending
    moderado,-a adjetivo
    1 (persona, ideas) moderate
    2 (precio) reasonable
    (temperatura, viento) mild
    moderar verbo transitivo
    1 to moderate: tienes que moderar esos hábitos, you have to kick your bad habits
    2 (velocidad) to reduce: al llegar a la curva, modere la velocidad, slow down at the curve
    3 (una discusión) to chair: tengo que moderar un debate en el Ateneo, I have to chair a debate at the Ateneo

    ' moderado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    moderada
    - sobria
    - sobrio
    - comedido
    - fresco
    - parco
    English:
    measured
    - middle-of-the-road
    - moderate
    - restrained
    - wet
    - gentle
    - middle
    - modest
    - reasonable
    * * *
    moderado, -a
    adj
    1. [persona] moderate;
    es una persona moderada he's not given to excesses
    2. [velocidad] moderate;
    [precio] reasonable;
    habrá lluvias moderadas en el norte there will be some rain in the north
    3. [en política] moderate
    nm,f
    moderate
    * * *
    I adj moderate
    II m, moderada f moderate
    * * *
    moderado, -da adj & n
    : moderate
    * * *
    moderado adj moderate

    Spanish-English dictionary > moderado

  • 17 mesurado

    adj.
    moderate, measured, restrained, cadenced.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: mesurar.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=moderado) moderate, restrained
    2) (=tranquilo) calm
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < persona> moderate, restrained; < palabras> restrained, measured
    * * *
    = circumspect, low-keyed, low-key [low key], measured, even-keeled, on an even keel, even-keel.
    Nota: Adjetivo.
    Ex. It must be the least uplifting, most circumspect film ever made about sainthood.
    Ex. Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
    Ex. Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex. This will move the debate about open access as a model for scholarly communication towards a more measured and nuanced discourse.
    Ex. By the same token, the Obama campaign has remained relatively dignified, has survived the worst of crises, has been even-keeled, efficient and well-managed.
    Ex. In the intervening months since the near-tragedy took place, her life has remained on an even keel.
    Ex. She doesn't expend energy on anger; she's an even-keel person -- the kind of leader people enjoy working with.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < persona> moderate, restrained; < palabras> restrained, measured
    * * *
    = circumspect, low-keyed, low-key [low key], measured, even-keeled, on an even keel, even-keel.
    Nota: Adjetivo.

    Ex: It must be the least uplifting, most circumspect film ever made about sainthood.

    Ex: Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
    Ex: Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex: This will move the debate about open access as a model for scholarly communication towards a more measured and nuanced discourse.
    Ex: By the same token, the Obama campaign has remained relatively dignified, has survived the worst of crises, has been even-keeled, efficient and well-managed.
    Ex: In the intervening months since the near-tragedy took place, her life has remained on an even keel.
    Ex: She doesn't expend energy on anger; she's an even-keel person -- the kind of leader people enjoy working with.

    * * *
    ‹persona› moderate, restrained; ‹palabras› restrained, measured
    * * *
    mesurado, -a adj
    moderate, restrained
    * * *
    adj moderate
    * * *
    mesurado, -da adj
    comedido: moderate, restrained

    Spanish-English dictionary > mesurado

  • 18 rate

    ̈ɪreɪt I
    1. сущ.
    1) а) оценка имущества Syn: valuation б) суждение, мнение, оценка (напр., какого-л. события) Syn: estimation
    2) норма;
    ставка, тариф;
    расценка, цена average rate of profit ≈ средняя норма прибыли rate of surplus valueнорма прибавочной стоимости at an easy rateдешево;
    легко book rate ≈ "книжный" тариф (тариф на почтовую бандероль) lock-in rate ≈ замороженная ставка
    3) а) пропорция, отношение;
    коэффициент;
    степень;
    процент, доля to fix, set a rate ≈ устанавливать процент annual rate bargain rates discount rate fast rate flat rate high rate hourly rate inflation rate interest rate low rate metabolic rate moderate rate pulse rate respiration rate seasonal rate tax rate б) фин. курс( специальное соотношение при операциях с валютой и ценными бумагами) at the rate ≈ по курсу at the average close rate ≈ по среднему заключительному курсу exchange rate, rate of exchangeвалютный курс cabin rate ≈ "телеграфный курс" (курс фунта стерлингов по отношению к доллару США)
    4) местный, муниципальный, коммунальный налог
    5) а) темп;
    скорость, ход( как физическая характеристика) The most rapid rate of a box-wagon is about thirty miles per hour. ≈ Самая высокая скорость движения товарного состава - около тридцати миль в час. б) относительная скорость( совершения действий и т.д.) accident rate birth rate crime rate death rate divorce rate marriage rate morbidity rate mortality rate rate of climb rate of fire
    6) а) разряд, класс;
    сорт Syn: class II
    1. б) мор. класс военных судов
    7) степень, интенсивность( какого-л. чувства, действия и т.д.) at a great rate ≈ в большой степени
    8) паек, порция
    9) тех. расход (воды) ∙ at any rateво всяком случае;
    по меньшей мере at this rate, at that rateв таком случае;
    при таких условиях
    2. гл.
    1) уст. предоставлять, назначать, выделять Syn: allot
    2) а) оценивать, производить оценку, исчислять, определять, устанавливать (among;
    as) to rate high ≈ высоко оценивать to rate low ≈ невысоко оценивать That player is rated among the very best. ≈ Этот игрок считается одним из лучших. This wine rates as excellent. ≈ Это вино признано отличным. Syn: value
    2., esteem
    2. б) приписывать класс, ранг;
    располагать по рангу, по ранжиру Why should you rate yourself above this job? ≈ Почему ты считаешь, что делать эту работу ниже твоего достоинства? Syn: grade
    2.
    2) оценивать, расценивать, ценить
    3) а) считать;
    расценивать;
    рассматривать She was rated an excellent pianist. ≈ Ее считали прекрасной пианисткой. Syn: consider, regard
    2. б) рассматриваться, считаться She rates as the finest teacher we have. ≈ Она - лучший учитель, который у нас был.
    4) заслуживать( что-л.), удостаиваться( чего-л.) he rated special privileges ≈ он располагал особыми привилегиями Syn: deserve
    5) обыкн. страд. облагать( местным) налогом
    6) мор. а) определять класс, категорию (морского судна) б) присваивать класс, звание( моряку) ∙ rate up rate with II гл.
    1) ругать, распекать, бранить;
    задавать головомойку He began to rate them soundly for their ingratitude. ≈ Он стал их сильно бранить за неблагодарность. Syn: chide, scold
    1., reprove
    2) неперех. браниться, ругаться She has rated at her child all day long. ≈ Она целый день ругалась на своего ребенка. III = ret норма;
    размер - birth * рождаемость - crime * показатель /индекс, статистика/ преступности - per cent * размер процентов - * of profit /of return/ (политика) (экономика) норма прибыли - * of surplus value( политика) (экономика) норма прибавочной стоимости - * of production норма выработки;
    производительность - * of seeding( сельскохозяйственное) норма высева - the * of speed per minute скорость в минуту - the marriage * per mille количество браков на тысячу (человек) населения - to go at the * of six miles an hour проходить по 6 миль в час;
    двигаться со скоростью 6 миль в час ставка, тариф;
    такса;
    расценка - the R. (финансовое) учетная ставка банка Великобритании - * of discount( финансовое) учетная ставка, учетный процент;
    ставка дисконта - * of duty ставка таможенной пошлины - the *s of wages per week ставки недельной заработной платы - the * of interest ставка /норма/ процента( финансовое) курс - the * of exchange валютный курс;
    вексельный курс;
    обменный курс - dollar * курс доллара цена;
    оценка - to buy at a high * купить по высокой цене - you can have them at the * of $1 a dozen можете купить их по одному доллару за дюжину - at an easy * по недорогой цене, дешево;
    легко, без труда, без усилий - to win success at an easy * без труда добиться успеха - to value smth. at a low * низко оценивать что-л.;
    быть невысокого мнения о чем-л. pl (железнодорожное) грузовой тариф - * scale /card/ тарифное расписание( рассылаемое транспортными и страховыми организациями) скорость, темп - * constant( химическое) константа скорости реакции - * of growth темп роста - * of advance( военное) темп наступления - * of climb (авиация) скороподъемность - * of descent( авиация) скорость снижения - * of fire (военное) скорость стрельбы;
    темп огня;
    режим огня - * of sailing( морское) скорость хода( судна) - * of ionization (физическое) скорость ионизации - at a great * с огромной скоростью - to drive at a dangerous * вести автомобиль с опасным превышением скорости - unemployment increases at a fearful * безработица растет угрожающими темпами - he read at a moderate * он читал неторопливо процент, доля;
    коэффициент;
    пропорция;
    степень - * of chickens( сельскохозяйственное) выход цыплят (от числа заложенных яиц) - * of reproduction, reproduction * (экономика) коэффициент воспроизводства - * of return (экономика) рентабельность, норма рентабельности разряд, сорт - of the first * первоклассный;
    наилучший - this fruit is very second * это очень неважные фрукты пошиб, полет местный, муниципальный, коммунальный налог;
    сбор на местные нужды( в Великобритании) - *s and taxes( местные) сборы и (государственные) налоги;
    коммунальные и государственные налоги - harbour *s портовые сборы - to raise a * of $1 взимать сбор в один доллар (американизм) оценка, отметка( в школе) образ действия;
    манера, способ - * of living (широкий) образ жизни - to live at a high * жить на широкую ногу - if you go on at that * you will injure your health если вы и дальше будете поступать так, вы подорвете свое здоровье - at this * таким образом;
    так;
    если так будет продолжаться - at that * в таком случае;
    если это так, если то, что вы говорите, соответствует действительности - at that * we shan't get any dinner today если так пойдет дальше, мы сегодня останемся без обеда - he ought to be dismissed at that * в таком случае его следует уволить( специальное) интенсивность;
    мощность - emission * (физическое) интенсивность испускания - exposure * (физическое) мощность облучения - * of work интенсивность работы, мощность - * of gain (сельскохозяйственное) интенсивность прироста /привеса/ (специальное) частота - pulse * (медицина) частота пульса;
    (электроника) частота (повторения) импульсов (спортивное) разряд (морское) класс (торгового судна) ;
    (историческое) ранг (корабля) (морское) звание или специальность рядового или старшинского состава (о часах) ход;
    суточное отставание;
    уход вперед за сутки - * of a chronometer ход хронометра (техническое) расход (воды и т. п.) > at any * во всяком случае;
    по меньшей мере > not at any * (устаревшее) ни в коем случае;
    ни за что > he has improved somewhat, in manners at any * он стал немного лучше, по крайней мере в обращении > at any * I will do nothing without further instructions во всяком случае я ничего не буду делать без дальнейших указаний > at all *s во всяком /в любом/ случае;
    как бы то ни было;
    (устаревшее) любой ценой;
    любыми средствами > to come upon the *s (историческое) содержаться за счет налогоплательщиков (о неимущих) ;
    попасть в работный дом( часто at) оценивать, производить оценку;
    исчислять - to * a coin above its real value определять курс монеты выше реальной стоимости - what do you * his fortune at? в какую сумму вы оцениваете его состояние? - output was *d at about 5,000 bales per wotking day по подсчетам оказалось, что производительность составляет около 5000 кип за рабочий день ценить, расценивать, оценивать - to * smb., smth. high высоко ценить кого-л., что-л. - to * one's profession above another in usefulness считать одну профессию полезнее другой - to * fame as its true value знать настоящую цену славе - I do not * his merits high я невысокого мнения о его достоинствах - he doesn't * himself an ordinary clerk он не считает себя простым клерком (специальное) таксировать, тарифицировать( часто as) считать, рассматривать;
    полагать - he is *d as a distinguished scientist он считается выдающимся ученым - he is *d the best in his field его считают лучшим специалистом в данной области - I * him among my friends я отношу его к числу своих друзей;
    я считаю его своим другом( часто as) считаться, рассматриваться - to * as a national resource рассматриваться как источник общегосударственного значения - he *s as one of the best runners over the distance он считается одним из лучших бегунов на этой дистанции облагать местным налогом - they were heavily *d они платили высокие местные налоги оценивать для установления ставки местного налога или страховой премии - the shop was *d at $500 a year облагаемый налогом доход с магазина был исчислен в пятьсот долларов в год - to * up (страхование) увеличивать страховую премию (в случае особого риска) (американизм) ставить отметку, оценку ( учащемуся) ;
    оценивать знания - to * a student first считать какого-л. учащегося первым учеником /отличником/ (разговорное) заслуживать - he *s the best он заслуживает самого лучшего (американизм) (заслуженно) пользоваться чем-л.;
    иметь право на что-л. - she *s special privileges она пользуется особыми привилегиями;
    ей предоставлены особые привилегии( американизм) занимать привилегированное положение - she really *s with her boss босс с ней очень считается /очень ее ценит/ преим. (морское) определять класс (корабля, автомобиля) ;
    устанавливать категорию;
    классифицировать преим. (морское) иметь какую-л. категорию, класс и т. п. - a ship *s as first судно относится к первому классу преим. (морское) присваивать класс, звание (моряку) - he was *d as a midshipman ему было присвоено звание мичмана - to * up повысить в классе, звании и т. п. преим. (морское) иметь класс, звание (о моряке) регулировать, выверять (часы) - to * a chronometer ставить хронометр по среднему поясному времени делать выговор;
    отчитывать, бранить, разносить( кого-л.) - to * smb. for doing smth. выговаривать кому-л. за что-л. - to * smb. soundly задать кому-л. головомойку - to * at smb. кричать на кого-л. accrual ~ коэффициент накопления (характеризует скорость накопления) accuracy ~ показатель точности activity ~ степень активности activity ~s коэффициент активности( процент экономически активных детей и взрослых соответственно в возрастных группах 10-14 и 15-64 года) actual interest ~ реальная процентная ставка actual ~ фактическая ставка ad valorem ~ фрахтовая ставка со стоимости товара add-on ~ дополнительная ставка adjusted ~ скорректированный коэффициент adjusted ~ стандартизованный коэффициент advertising ~ стоимость рекламы advertising ~ цена рекламы advised ~ ставка, о которой клиент официально уведомлен after tax real ~ of return реальная норма прибыли после уплаты налога alternative ~ of return альтернативная процентная ставка amortization ~ норма амортизационного списания annual percentage ~ (APR) годовая процентная ставка annualized ~ процентная ставка в годовом исчислении arrival ~ вчт. интенсивность входящего потока arrival ~ частота поступления at a guaranteed ~ по гарантированному курсу average ~ of profit полит.-эк. средняя норма прибыли;
    at an easy rate дешево;
    легко;
    to live at a high rate жить на широкую ногу ~ тех. расход (воды) ;
    at any rate во всяком случае;
    по меньшей мере;
    at this (или that) rate в таком случае;
    при таких условиях ~ темп;
    ход, скорость;
    rate of increase темп роста, прироста;
    at the rate of 40 miles an hour со скоростью 40 миль в час ~ тех. расход (воды) ;
    at any rate во всяком случае;
    по меньшей мере;
    at this (или that) rate в таком случае;
    при таких условиях attractive ~ привлекательная ставка average exchange ~ средний валютный курс average exchange ~ средний вексельный курс average exchange ~ средний обменный курс average ~ средняя ставка average tax ~ средняя ставка налога bank deposit ~ банковская ставка по депозитам bank discount ~ банковская учетная ставка bank ~ учетная ставка банка base ~ базовая ссудная ставка банков base ~ базовая ставка base ~ тарифная ставка basic interest ~ основная ставка процента basic ~ базисная ставка basic ~ основная ставка baud ~ вчт. скорость передачи информации в бодах benchmark ~ исходная ставка bill ~ процент по государственным облигациям bill ~ ставка по казначейским векселям birth and death ~s уровни рождаемости и смертности birth ~ полит.эк. коэффициент рождаемости birth ~ полит.эк. рождаемость birth ~ уровень рождаемости, рождаемость bit ~ вчт. скорость передачи данных в битах bit ~ вчт. скорость передачи информации в бит/сек bond interest ~ процент по облигации bonus ~ ставка дополнительного дивиденда broker's loan ~ процентная ставка банков по ссудам до востребования фондовым брокерам building interest ~ строительная процентная ставка bulk ~ фрахтовая ставка для перевозки большой партии груза burden ~ отношение накладных расходов к затратам на оплату труда buying ~ закупочная расценка buying ~ курс покупателя call money ~ ставка процента по онкольной ссуде call ~ онкольная ставка call ~ процентная ставка по ссудам до востребования capitalization ~ норма капитализации carload ~ повагонная тарифная ставка carload ~ тариф для повагонных грузов carrying-over ~ бирж. курс репорта ceiling ~ предельная норма процента central bank lending ~ ставка ссудного процента центрального банка central ~ центральный курс central reference ~ центральный контрольный курс certificate-of-deposit ~ ставка депозитного сертификата check ~ чековый курс cheque ~ курс покупки чеков church ~ церковный налог clock ~ вчт. тактовая частота closing ~ курс на момент закрытия биржи closing ~ of exchange валютный курс на момент закрытия сальдо commission ~ ставка комиссионного вознаграждения commodity ~ специальный тариф на перевозку массовых грузов common reduced ~ единый льготный тариф completion ~ процент выполненных работ consensus ~ согласованная процентная ставка consolidated ~ полная почасовая ставка constant ~ постоянный коэффициент constructions ~ темпы строительных работ contract ~ договорная расценка contribution ~ размер взноса conversion ~ коэффициент пересчета conversion ~ скорость преобразования ~ оценивать, исчислять, определять, устанавливать;
    the copper coinage was then rated above it real value медная монета стоила тогда выше своей реальной стоимости crude ~ общий коэффициент cumulative ~ суммарный коэффициент current account ~ ставка процента на текущем счете current coupon ~ текущий уровень процентных ставок купона current exchange ~ текущий валютный курс current exchange ~ текущий обменный курс current ~ курс дня current ~ текущий курс cut ~ сниженный курс data ~ вчт. скорость передачи данных data transfer ~ вчт. скорость передачи данных death ~ смертность declining ~ снижающийся курс dependency ~ коэффициент иждивенчества (показывает число детей до 14 лет и лиц старше 65 лет в процентах от потенциально работопособной части населения) deposit ~ ставка по депозитам depreciation ~ норма амортизации depreciation ~ степень обесценивания discount ~ ставка дисконта discount ~ учетная ставка, учетный процент, учетный курс discount ~ учетная ставка discount ~ учетный процент discounted cash flow ~ оборот дисконтированных поступлений наличности dividend ~ норма дивидендов dollar ~ курс доллара dollar ~ increase повышение курса доллара dollar's exchange ~ обменный курс доллара drawdown ~ норма использования кредита dropping ~ понижающийся курс entrance ~ вчт. интенсивность входящего потока error ~ вчт. частота ошибок error ~ частота появления ошибок eurointerest ~ процентная ставка по еврооблигациям exceptional ~ исключительный тариф exchange ~ валютный курс exchange ~ курс обмена валюты exchange ~ обменный курс exchange ~s валютные курсы, курсы обмена валют excise ~ ставка акцизного сбора exorbitant ~ чрезмерно высокий курс express freight ~ тариф на срочную доставку грузов extortionate ~ грабительский курс falling dollar ~ понижающийся курс доллара federal discount ~ федеральная учетная ставка (США) fertility ~ общий коэффициент фертильности fertility ~ специальный коэффициент рождаемости fixed exchange ~ фиксированный валютный курс fixed interest ~ фиксированная процентная ставка fixing ~ твердая ставка flexible exchange ~ плавающий валютный курс floating interest ~ плавающая процентная ставка floor ~ нижний предел вмешательства fluctuating ~ колеблющийся курс foreign exchange ~ валютный курс forgetting ~ рекл. забываемость товара forward ~ бирж. срочный курс forward ~ бирж. форвардный курс freight ~ ставка фрахта full-time unemployment ~ коэффициент полной безработицы general ~ общий коэффициент going ~ действующая ставка going ~ обычная ставка growth ~ относительный прирост growth ~ темп прироста growth ~ темп роста guaranteed ~ гарантированная ставка ~ считать;
    расценивать;
    рассматривать;
    he was rated the best poet of his time его считали лучшим поэтом эпохи;
    I rate his speech very high я считаю его речь очень удачной hourly ~ рын.тр. почасовая ставка hourly ~ рын.тр. почасовой тариф hourly wage ~ рын.тр. почасовая ставка заработной платы hurdle ~ эк.произ. минимально приемлемая ставка ~ считать;
    расценивать;
    рассматривать;
    he was rated the best poet of his time его считали лучшим поэтом эпохи;
    I rate his speech very high я считаю его речь очень удачной import ~ импортный тариф import ~ тариф для импортных грузов incentive freight ~ поощрительная фрахтовая ставка increment ~ коэффициент прироста indexed interest ~ индексированная ставка процента inflation ~ темпы инфляции input ~ вчт. интенсивность входящего потока insurance ~ ставка страховой премии interbank bid ~ межбанковская ставка процента покупателя interbank offered ~ межбанковская ставка процента продавца interest ~ норма процента interest ~ ставка процента international ~ международный тариф interruption ~ вчт. частота прерывания обслуживания intervention ~ интервенционный курс investment ~ норма инвестирования investment ~ темп роста капиталовложений issue ~ эмиссионный курс landing ~ плата за перегрузку с судна на сухопутный транспорт legal minimum wage ~s установленная законом минимальная ставка заработной платы lending interest ~ ставка ссудного процента lending ~ кредитная ставка liquidity ~ коэффициент ликвидности average ~ of profit полит.-эк. средняя норма прибыли;
    at an easy rate дешево;
    легко;
    to live at a high rate жить на широкую ногу loading ~ суд. норма погрузки loading ~ тариф на погрузочные работы loan ~ процентная ставка по ссуде lombard ~ ломбардная ставка lombard ~ ставка ломбардного кредита long ~ курс покупки долгосрочных векселей long ~ ставка процента по долгосрочным кредитным обязательствам long-term interest ~ долгосрочная процентная ставка long-term prime ~ долгосрочная базисная ставка long-term prime ~ долгосрочная учетная ставка для первоклассных денежных обязательств( США) long-term ~ долгосрочная ставка low mortality ~ низкий коэффициент смертности lump sum ~ процентная ставка с общей суммы machine hour ~ норма издержек на станко-час malfunction ~ вчт. частота сбоев marginal tax ~ предельная налоговая ставка market exchange ~ рыночный валютный курс market exchange ~ рыночный обменный курс market interest ~ рыночная ставка процента market ~ биржевой курс market ~ рыночная норма market ~ рыночная ставка market ~ рыночный курс maximum interest ~ максимальная ставка процента medium ~ средний курс medium-term ~ ставка процента по среднесрочным кредитным обязательствам middle ~ средний курс middle ~ средняя ставка mileage ~ плата за перевозки, исчисляемые в милях minimum interest ~ минимальная ставка процента minimum lending ~ (MLR) минимальная ставка ссудного процента minimum ~ минимальная ставка minimum ~ минимальный курс money ~ ставка процента по денежным операциям ~ соответственная часть;
    пропорция;
    коэффициент, степень, процент;
    доля;
    mortality rate смертность mortality ~ коэффициент смертности mortality ~ показатель смертности mortgage ~ ставка процента по закладной night ~ точной тариф nominal interest ~ номинальная процентная ставка nominal ~ номинальный курс notional central ~ условный центральный курс occupancy ~ коэффициент занятости;
    коэффициент заполнения( рабочих мест, мест в гостинице и т. п.) output ~ вчт. интенсивность выходящего потока overflow ~ вчт. интенсивность избыточного потока paging ~ вчт. интенсивность страничного обмена parcel post ~ расценки почтово-посылочной службы parity ~ паритетный курс participation ~ доля рабочей силы в общей численности данной половозрастной группы peg the ~ фиксировать курс национальной валюты относительно иностранных валют pegged exchange ~ твердый валютный курс pegged exchange ~ фиксированный валютный курс piece ~ сдельная ставка piece-work ~ цена сдельной работы placement ~ коэффициент размещения postal ~ почтовый тариф preferential ~ льготный таможенный тариф premium ~ норма премиальной выплаты premium ~ размер премии premium ~ ставка страхового взноса prime lending ~ прайм-рейт prime lending ~ публикуемая банками ставка по кредитам первоклассным заемщикам prime ~ базисная ставка prime ~ прайм-рейт prime ~ публикуемая банками ставка по кредитам первоклассным заемщиком printout ~ вчт. скорость вывода на печать projected expenditure ~ планируемая скорость расходования ресурсов quotation ~ бирж. котировка курса quote a ~ назначать ставку quoted exchange ~ котировочный валютный курс quoted exchange ~ котировочный обменный курс rallying dollar ~ повышающийся курс доллара rallying ~ растущая ставка rallying ~ увеличивающийся курс rate = ret ~ бранить;
    задавать головомойку ~ интенсивность ~ интенсивнось ~ класс ~ коммунальный налог ~ коэффициент ~ курс ~ местный налог ~ местный налог;
    коммунальный налог ~ местный налог ~ мощность ~ налог на землю ~ норма;
    ставка, тариф;
    расценка, цена;
    the rate of wages per week ставка недельной заработной платы ~ норма ~ нормировать ~ (преим. pass.) облагать (местным) налогом ~ облагать налогом ~ мор. определять класс, категорию (корабля) ~ определять тариф ~ оценивать, исчислять, определять, устанавливать;
    the copper coinage was then rated above it real value медная монета стоила тогда выше своей реальной стоимости ~ оценивать;
    исчислять;
    таксировать;
    тарифицировать;
    устанавливать ~ оценивать ~ оценка ~ паек, порция ~ поземельный налог ~ показатель ~ пропорция ~ процент ~ размер;
    норма;
    ставка;
    тариф;
    такса;
    цена;
    курс;
    процент ~ размер ~ разряд, класс;
    сорт ~ разряд ~ тех. расход (воды) ;
    at any rate во всяком случае;
    по меньшей мере;
    at this (или that) rate в таком случае;
    при таких условиях ~ расход ~ расценивать ~ скорость ~ соответственная часть;
    пропорция;
    коэффициент, степень, процент;
    доля;
    mortality rate смертность ~ сорт ~ ставка таможенной пошлины ~ степень ~ считать;
    расценивать;
    рассматривать;
    he was rated the best poet of his time его считали лучшим поэтом эпохи;
    I rate his speech very high я считаю его речь очень удачной ~ такса ~ таксировать ~ тариф ~ тарифицировать ~ темп;
    ход, скорость;
    rate of increase темп роста, прироста;
    at the rate of 40 miles an hour со скоростью 40 миль в час ~ темп ~ учетная ставка ~ цена ~ частота ~ of activity уровень активности ~ of change темп изменения ~ of company tax ставка налогового обложения компании ~ of contango бирж. размер надбавки по репортным операциям ~ of conversion вал.-фин. конверсионный курс ~ of conversion вал.-фин. коэффициент перевода ~ of corporation tax ставка налогового обложения корпорации ~ of depreciation норма амортизации ~ of depreciation степень обесценивания ~ of development темп развития ~ of drawdown темп снижения ~ of duty ставка таможенной пошлины ~ of earnings норма дохода ~ of expansion степень расширения ~ of expansion темп роста ~ of fire воен. скорость стрельбы, режим огня;
    rate of climb ав. скороподъемность ~ of growth темп прироста ~ of growth темп роста ~ of growth темп увеличения ~ темп;
    ход, скорость;
    rate of increase темп роста, прироста;
    at the rate of 40 miles an hour со скоростью 40 миль в час ~ of increase темп прироста ~ of increase темп роста ~ of increase темп увеличения ~ of increase in lending темп увеличения объема кредитования ~ of inflation темп инфляции ~ of inflation уровень инфляции ~ of interest норма (ссудного) процента, процентная ставка ~ of interest норма процента ~ of interest ставка процента ~ of interest for overdraft facilities ставка процента по овердрафту ~ of interest on deferred payments ставка процента по отсроченным платежам ~ of interest paid by bank ставка процента, выплачиваемая банком ~ of inventory turnover скорость движения товарных запасов ~ of inventory turnover скорость оборачиваемости товарных запасов ~ of inventory turnover скорость оборота акций ~ of investment норма инвестиций ~ of investment норма капиталовложений ~ of issue бирж. курс выпуска ~ of issue бирж. эмиссионный курс ~ of levy ставка налога ~ of levy ставка сбора ~ of loading норма погрузки ~ of loss норма потерь ~ of natural increase процент естественного прироста ~ of natural increase темп естественного прироста ~ of occurence вчт. интенсивность потока ~ of occurrence стат. интенсивность потока событий ~ of pay increases темп роста ставок заработной платы ~ of postage within postal zone размер зональных почтовых сборов ~ of price increases темп роста цен ~ of profit норма прибыли ~ of profitability степень рентабельности ~ of return коэффициент окупаемости капиталовложений ~ of return норма прибыли ~ of return on investment коэффициент окупаемости капиталовложений ~ of return on investment норма прибыли на инвестированный капитал ~ of return on investment норма прибыли от капиталовложений ~ of shrinkage норма усушки ~ of stockturn норма оборачиваемости товарных запасов ~ of stockturn скорость оборачиваемости товарных запасов ~ of exchange валютный курс;
    rate of surplus value полит.-эк. норма прибавочной стоимости ~ of tax налоговая ставка ~ of tax ставка налогового обложения ~ of taxation налоговая ставка ~ of taxation ставка налогового обложения ~ of throughput производительность ~ of throughput пропускная способность ~ of turnover скорость оборачиваемости ~ of turnover скорость оборота ~ of unemployment уровень безработицы ~ of unionization процент охвата профсоюзами ~ of VAT норма налога на добавленную стоимость ~ норма;
    ставка, тариф;
    расценка, цена;
    the rate of wages per week ставка недельной заработной платы ~ of wastage норма отходов ~ of work интенсивность работы ~ of work мощность ~ of work производительность работы read ~ вчт. скорость чтения real interest ~ реальная ставка процента redemption ~ ставка погашения rediscount ~ ставка переучета reduced ~ льготный тариф reduced ~ пониженный тариф reference interest ~ исходная ставка процента refinancing interest ~ ставка процента при рефинансировании refresh ~ вчт. частота регенерации reinvestment ~ норма реинвестирования repeat ~ частота повторения resend ~ вчт. скорость возврата response ~ доля ответивших при обследовании safe-deposit ~ ставка по депозитам sagging ~ оценка падения курсов savings ~ норма сбережений schedule ~ установленный тариф selling ~ курс продавцов service ~ вчт. интенсивность обслуживания service ~ вчт. скорость обслуживания sewerage ~ нагрузка канализационной системы short ~ краткосрочная процентная ставка short ~ курс покупки краткосрочных векселей (в иностранной валюте) short sterling ~ стерлинговый курс покупки краткосрочных векселей short-term interest ~ краткосрочная процентная ставка short-term ~ краткосрочная ставка процента short-term ~ курс покупки краткосрочных векселей (в иностранной валюте) sickness ~ процент больных sight ~ валютный курс по предъявительским траттам sight ~ валютный курс по предъявительским чекам soaring dollar ~ растущий курс доллара soaring ~ растущая ставка space ~ норма площади (для рекламы) special ~ специальная норма special ~ специальная ставка special ~ специальный курс specific ~ специальный коэффициент specific ~ частный коэффициент spot market ~ курс по кассовым сделкам spot ~ курс, по которому расчеты по сделке проводятся на второй рабочий день после ее заключения spot ~ курс по кассовым сделкам spot ~ наличный кус валюты standard ~ обычная ставка standard ~ основная ставка (заработной платы) standard ~ основной тариф standard ~ стандартная тарифная сетка оплаты( за услуги) standard tax ~ основная налоговая ставка standard tax ~ основная ставка налогообложения sterling interest ~ курс фунта стерлингов straight piece ~ сдельная ставка оплаты труда striking ~ цена, по которой удовлетворяются заявки участников аукциона новых ценных бумаг striking ~ цена исполнения (фиксированная цена, по которой покупатель опциона может использовать свое право купить или продать определенные финансовые документы) subsidized ~ доля затрат, покрываемых за счет субсидирования switch ~ курсовая разница tariff ~ тарифная ставка tax collection ~ уровень налоговых поступлений tax ~ налоговая ставка tax ~ ставка налога tax ~ ставка налогового обложения taxable ~ ставка налогообложения through ~ сквозной тариф through ~ тариф прямой перевозки грузов through ~ тариф сквозной перевозки грузов time ~ курс форвард (курс валюты по срочным сделкам) time ~ повременная плата top ~ высшая ставка top ~ высший курс ценных бумаг transfer ~ вчт. скорость передачи transfer ~ вчт. скорость передачи данных transmission ~ вчт. скорость передачи данных turnover ~ отношение объема сделок с конкретным видом акций в течение года к общей сумме акций в обращении unemployment ~ доля безработных unemployment ~ процент безработных unemployment ~ число безработных uniform ~ единая ставка unpeg the ~ прекращать искусственную поддержку курса unquoted exchange ~ незарегистрированный валютный курс usurious ~ ростовщическая ставка процента utilization ~ коэффициент загрузки utilization ~ коэффициент использования variable interest ~ плавающая процентная ставка variable service ~ переменная интенсивность обслуживания wage ~ ставка заработной платы wage ~ тарифная расценка wage ~s ставки заработной платы wastage ~ норма отходов water ~ тариф на воду weekly ~ недельная ставка withholding ~ норма вычетов word ~ устная оценка year-end exchange ~ валютный курс на конец года yield ~ ставка дохода zero ~ нулевая ставка zone ~ зональный тариф

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  • 19 discreto

    adj.
    1 discreet, prudent, cautious, moderate.
    2 discrete, separate, not joined together.
    3 not readily noticeable, inconspicuous.
    4 discrete, separate, distinct, not continuous.
    * * *
    1 (prudente) discreet, prudent, tactful
    2 (sobrio) sober, discreet
    3 (moderado) moderate, average, reasonable
    nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 discreet person
    * * *
    (f. - discreta)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=poco llamativo) [color, vestido] sober; [advertencia] discreet
    2) [persona] (=prudente) discreet; (=listo) shrewd
    3) (=mediano) average, middling
    4) (Fís) discrete
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    a) <persona/carácter/comportamiento> discreet
    b) <color/vestido> discreet
    c) <cantidad/sueldo> modest
    * * *
    = tactful, unobtrusive, discreet, low-key [low key], inconspicuous, circumspect, low-keyed.
    Ex. The library's overall image is enhanced more by a tactful handling of an in-house problem without airing the dirty linen in public.
    Ex. New technologies will enable interfaces composed of unobtrusive physiological monitors and prosthetics.
    Ex. Discreet advertising in press and on television in 1973 helped to direct adult illiterates to tutors who guided their progress.
    Ex. Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex. Her diversified and highly committed authorship is characterized by disrespectful humour, clear-sighted solemnity and inconspicuous warmth.
    Ex. It must be the least uplifting, most circumspect film ever made about sainthood.
    Ex. Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
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    * de un modo discreto = quietly, unobtrusively, unnoticeably, inconspicuously.
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    a) <persona/carácter/comportamiento> discreet
    b) <color/vestido> discreet
    c) <cantidad/sueldo> modest
    * * *
    = tactful, unobtrusive, discreet, low-key [low key], inconspicuous, circumspect, low-keyed.

    Ex: The library's overall image is enhanced more by a tactful handling of an in-house problem without airing the dirty linen in public.

    Ex: New technologies will enable interfaces composed of unobtrusive physiological monitors and prosthetics.
    Ex: Discreet advertising in press and on television in 1973 helped to direct adult illiterates to tutors who guided their progress.
    Ex: Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex: Her diversified and highly committed authorship is characterized by disrespectful humour, clear-sighted solemnity and inconspicuous warmth.
    Ex: It must be the least uplifting, most circumspect film ever made about sainthood.
    Ex: Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
    * de un modo discreto = quietly, unobtrusively, unnoticeably, inconspicuously.

    * * *
    1 ‹persona/carácter/comportamiento› discreet
    se mostró discreta en sus acusaciones she was restrained o cautious in her accusations
    2 ‹color/vestido› discreet
    3 ‹cantidad/sueldo/resultado› modest
    una novela de discreta calidad a fairly average novel
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    discreto
    ◊ -ta adjetivo

    a)persona/carácter/comportamiento discreet

    b)color/vestido discreet

    c)cantidad/sueldo/actuación modest

    discreto,-a adjetivo
    1 (prudente) discreet: es una persona muy discreta, she's a very discreet person
    2 (mediocre) average: sus resultados fueron más bien discretos, their results were rather average
    ' discreto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    discreta
    - reservada
    - reservado
    - disimulado
    English:
    dark horse
    - discreet
    - inconspicuous
    - low-key
    - quiet
    - sober
    - tactful
    - unobtrusive
    - delicate
    - gentle
    * * *
    discreto, -a adj
    1. [prudente, reservado] discreet;
    por favor, sé discreto please be discreet;
    una mirada discreta a discreet look
    2. [no llamativo] [color, decoración] sober, restrained;
    [vestido] simple, sober; [maquillaje] discreet;
    ropa discreta simple o modest attire;
    su discreta labor a la sombra del gran científico his quiet work in the shadow of the great scientist
    3. [moderado, normal] [cantidad, sueldo] moderate, modest;
    [actuación, resultados] fair, reasonable
    4. Mat discrete
    * * *
    adj discreet
    * * *
    discreto, -ta adj
    : discreet
    * * *
    1. (prudente) discreet / tactful
    2. (moderado) modest / moderate

    Spanish-English dictionary > discreto

  • 20 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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