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  • 1 office of the Chief of CW Service

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > office of the Chief of CW Service

  • 2 office of the Chief of CW Service

    English-Russian military dictionary > office of the Chief of CW Service

  • 3 Office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare Service

    OCCWS, Office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare Service

    English-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > Office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare Service

  • 4 office of the chief of information

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > office of the chief of information

  • 5 Office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare Service

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare Service

  • 6 office

    управление; департамент; комитет; отдел; бюро; секретариат, канцелярия; разг. кабина экипажа

    Joint Service Cruise Missile Program [Project] office — объединенное управление разработки КР (для ВВС и ВМС)

    office of Information, Navy — информационное управление ВМС

    office of Research, Development and Evaluation — управление НИОКР ВМС

    office of the Chief, Army Reserve — управление резерва СВ

    office of the Comptroller, Navy — управление главного финансового инспектора ВМС

    office of the Deputy COFS for Research, Development and Acquisition — управление заместителя НШ по НИОКР и закупкам (СВ)

    office, Aerospace Research — управление воздушно-космических исследований

    office, Analysis and Review — управление анализа и контроля потребностей

    office, Armor Force Management and Standardization — управление по вопросам администрации и стандартизации бронетанковых войск

    office, Assistant COFS for Force Development — управление ПНШ по строительству ВС

    office, Assistant COFS for Intelligence — управление ПНШ по разведке

    office, Assistant COFS — управление [отдел] ПНШ

    office, Assistant Secretary of Defense — аппарат [секретариат] ПМО

    office, Chief of Chaplains — управление начальника службы военных священников (СВ)

    office, Chief of Civil Affairs — управление по связям с гражданской администрацией и населением

    office, Chief of Engineers — управление начальника инженерных войск

    office, Chief of Finance (and Accounting) — управление начальника финансовой службы (СВ)

    office, Chief of Legislative Liaison — отдел связи с законодательными органами

    office, Chief of Ordnance — управление начальника артиллерийско-технической службы (СВ)

    office, Chief of R&D — управление НИОКР (СВ)

    office, Chief of Transportation — управление [отдел] начальника транспортной службы

    office, Chief, Chemical Corps — управление начальника химической службы

    office, COFS for Operations — оперативное управление НШ

    office, COFS, Army — аппарат НШ СВ

    office, Consolidated Personnel — управление гражданских рабочих и служащих

    office, Coordinator of Army Studies — управление координатора разработок СВ

    office, Defense Transportation — управление военно-транспортной службы

    office, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Air Warfare — управление заместителя НШ ВМС по боевому применению авиации

    office, Deputy COFS for Aviation — отдел заместителя НШ по авиации (МП)

    office, Deputy COFS for Installations and Logistics — управление заместителя НШ по расквартированию и тыловому обеспечению

    office, Deputy COFS for Manpower — управление заместителя НШ по людским ресурсам

    office, Deputy COFS for Operations and Training — управление заместителя НШ по оперативной и боевой подготовке

    office, Deputy COFS for Plans and Logistics — управление заместителя НШ по планированию тылового обеспечения

    office, Development and Engineering — отдел технических разработок (ЦРУ)

    office, Development and Weapon Systems Analysis — управление разработки и анализа систем вооружения

    office, Director of Development Planning — управление планирования строительства (ВВС)

    office, Director of Foreign Intelligence — управление начальника внешней разведки

    office, Distribution Services — отдел распределения и рассылки картографических изданий (МО)

    office, Economic Research — отдел экономических исследований (ЦРУ)

    office, Emergency Transportation — управление чрезвычайных перевозок

    office, Employment Policy and Grievance Review — отдел по вопросам занятости и рассмотрению жалоб (СВ)

    office, Federal Procurement Policy — управление разработки федеральной политики в области закупок

    office, Force Planning and Analysis — управление планирования и анализа строительства ВС

    office, General Council — управление генерального юрисконсульта

    office, Geographic and Cartographic Research — отдел географических и картографических исследований (ЦРУ)

    office, Imagery Analysis — отдел анализа видовой информации (ЦРУ)

    office, Information and Legal Affairs — управление информации и права (МО)

    office, Information for. the Armed Forces — управление информации ВС

    office, JCS — аппарат КНШ

    office, Judge Advocate General — управление начальника военно-юридической службы

    office, Management and Budget — административно-бюджетное управление

    office, Military Assistance — управление по оказанию военной помощи

    office, Personnel Manager — отдел кадров (СВ)

    office, Services and Information Agency — отдел управления информационного обеспечения

    office, Special Assistant for Logistical Support of Army Aircraft — отдел специального помощника по вопросам МТО армейской авиации

    office, Special Assistant for Logistical Support of Tactical Communications — отдел специального помощника по вопросам МТО тактических систем связи

    office, the Inspector General — управление генерального инспектора

    office, the Legislative Affairs — управление военного законодательства

    office, Under Secretary of Navy — аппарат заместителя министра ВМС

    office, Under Secretary of the Air Force — аппарат заместителя министра ВВС

    Personnel, Plans and Training office — отдел по вопросам ЛС, планирования и боевой подготовки

    Strategic Objectives [Targets] Planning office — управление планирования стратегических задач (КНШ)

    Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Night Observation System office — управление разработки систем наблюдения, засечки целей и ПНВ

    — Resources Management office

    English-Russian military dictionary > office

  • 7 chief

    Associate chief of Technical Services — помощник начальника технических служб, помощник главного инженера

    chief of Air Force Chaplains — начальник управления духовных культов ВВС; флагманский капеллан

    chief of the Air Service — начальник материально-технического обеспечения авиационного соединения [объединения]

    Englsh-Russian aviation and space dictionary > chief

  • 8 OCSA

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > OCSA

  • 9 OCS

    1) Общая лексика: Occupancy control system
    2) Компьютерная техника: Output Control Software
    3) Медицина: Oral corticosteroids
    4) Американизм: Office of Community Services
    9) Автомобильный термин: overdrive cancel switch, Occupant Classification System
    10) Телекоммуникации: (Originating call screening) Фильтрация вызовов в зависимости от исходящего направления (Originating call screening)
    11) Сокращение: Obstacle Clearance Surface, Officers Command School (UK), One Code Solution (new name for 4 state customer barcode USPS 2006), Operational Control Segment, Original Combat System, option on credit spread
    12) Университет: On Campus Session
    13) Физика: On chip Spectroscopy
    14) Электроника: Open Control System
    15) Вычислительная техника: Open Cabling System, Object Compatibility Standard (Motorola)
    17) Фирменный знак: Overnight Courier Service
    18) Экология: outer continental shelf
    21) Океанография: Office of the Chief Scientist
    22) Макаров: open-circuit stub
    23) Расширение файла: On-Card Sequencer, Output Control Subsystem
    24) SAP.тех. служба Online Correction Support
    25) Электротехника: overhead contact system
    26) Чат: Other Cool Stuff
    27) Программное обеспечение: Operator Communications Software

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > OCS

  • 10 ocs

    1) Общая лексика: Occupancy control system
    2) Компьютерная техника: Output Control Software
    3) Медицина: Oral corticosteroids
    4) Американизм: Office of Community Services
    9) Автомобильный термин: overdrive cancel switch, Occupant Classification System
    10) Телекоммуникации: (Originating call screening) Фильтрация вызовов в зависимости от исходящего направления (Originating call screening)
    11) Сокращение: Obstacle Clearance Surface, Officers Command School (UK), One Code Solution (new name for 4 state customer barcode USPS 2006), Operational Control Segment, Original Combat System, option on credit spread
    12) Университет: On Campus Session
    13) Физика: On chip Spectroscopy
    14) Электроника: Open Control System
    15) Вычислительная техника: Open Cabling System, Object Compatibility Standard (Motorola)
    17) Фирменный знак: Overnight Courier Service
    18) Экология: outer continental shelf
    21) Океанография: Office of the Chief Scientist
    22) Макаров: open-circuit stub
    23) Расширение файла: On-Card Sequencer, Output Control Subsystem
    24) SAP.тех. служба Online Correction Support
    25) Электротехника: overhead contact system
    26) Чат: Other Cool Stuff
    27) Программное обеспечение: Operator Communications Software

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > ocs

  • 11 OCCWS

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > OCCWS

  • 12 OCCWS

    OCCWS, Office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare Service

    English-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > OCCWS

  • 13 near cash

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    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
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    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
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    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
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    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
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    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
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    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
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    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
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    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
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    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYRoyal charterthe document setting out the powers and constitution of a corporation established underprerogative power of the monarch acting on Privy Council advice.Second readingthe second formal time that a House of Parliament may debate a bill, although in practicethe first substantive debate on its content. If successful, it is deemed to denoteParliamentary approval of the principle of the proposed legislation.Secondary legislationlaws, including orders and regulations, which are made using powers in primary legislation.Normally used to set out technical and administrative provision in greater detail thanprimary legislation, they are subject to a less intense level of scrutiny in Parliament.European legislation is,however,often implemented in secondary legislation using powers inthe European Communities Act 1972.Service-level agreement between parties, setting out in detail the level of service to be performed.agreementWhere agreements are between central government bodies, they are not legally a contractbut have a similar function.Shareholder Executive a body created to improve the government’s performance as a shareholder in businesses.Spending reviewsets out the key improvements in public services that the public can expect over a givenperiod. It includes a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives to find the bestway of delivering the government’s objectives, and sets out the spending plans for the givenperiod.State aidstate support for a domestic body or company which could distort EU competition and sois not usually allowed. See annex 4.9.Statement of Excessa formal statement detailing departments’ overspends prepared by the Comptroller andAuditor General as a result of undertaking annual audits.Statement on Internal an annual statement that Accounting Officers are required to make as part of the accounts Control, SICon a range of risk and control issues.Subheadindividual elements of departmental expenditure identifiable in Estimates as single cells, forexample cell A1 being administration costs within a particular line of departmental spending.Supplyresources voted by Parliament in response to Estimates, for expenditure by governmentdepartments.Supply Estimatesa statement of the resources the government needs in the coming financial year, and forwhat purpose(s), by which Parliamentary authority is sought for the planned level ofexpenditure and income.Target rate of returnthe rate of return required of a project or enterprise over a given period, usually at least a year.Third sectorprivate sector bodies which do not act commercially,including charities,social and voluntaryorganisations and other not-for-profit collectives. See annex 7.7.Total Managed a Treasury budgeting term which covers all current and capital spending carried out by the Expenditure,TMEpublic sector (ie not just by central departments).Trading fundan organisation (either within a government department or forming one) which is largely orwholly financed from commercial revenue generated by its activities. Its Estimate shows itsnet impact, allowing its income from receipts to be devoted entirely to its business.Treasury Minutea formal administrative document drawn up by the Treasury, which may serve a wide varietyof purposes including seeking Parliamentary approval for the use of receipts asappropriations in aid, a remission of some or all of the principal of voted loans, andresponding on behalf of the government to reports by the Public Accounts Committee(PAC).62Managing Public Money
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  • 14 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.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 15 Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo

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    b. 25 April 1874 Bologna, Italy
    d. 20 July 1937 Rome, Italy
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    Italian radio pioneer whose inventiveness and business skills made radio communication a practical proposition.
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    Marconi was educated in physics at Leghorn and at Bologna University. An avid experimenter, he worked in his parents' attic and, almost certainly aware of the recent work of Hertz and others, soon improved the performance of coherers and spark-gap transmitters. He also discovered for himself the use of earthing and of elevated metal plates as aerials. In 1895 he succeeded in transmitting telegraphy over a distance of 2 km (1¼ miles), but the Italian Telegraph authority rejected his invention, so in 1896 he moved to England, where he filed the first of many patents. There he gained the support of the Chief Engineer of the Post Office, and by the following year he had achieved communication across the Bristol Channel.
    The British Post Office was also slow to take up his work, so in 1897 he formed the Wireless Telegraph \& Signal Company to work independently. In 1898 he sold some equipment to the British Army for use in the Boer War and established the first permanent radio link from the Isle of Wight to the mainland. In 1899 he achieved communication across the English Channel (a distance of more than 31 miles or 50 km), the construction of a wireless station at Spezia, Italy, and the equipping of two US ships to report progress in the America's Cup yacht race, a venture that led to the formation of the American Marconi Company. In 1900 he won a contract from the British Admiralty to sell equipment and to train operators. Realizing that his business would be much more successful if he could offer his customers a complete radio-communication service (known today as a "turnkey" deal), he floated a new company, the Marconi International Marine Communications Company, while the old company became the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.
    His greatest achievement occurred on 12 December 1901, when Morse telegraph signals from a transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall were received at St John's, Newfoundland, a distance of some 2,100 miles (3,400 km), with the use of an aerial flown by a kite. As a result of this, Marconi's business prospered and he became internationally famous, receiving many honours for his endeavours, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In 1904, radio was first used to provide a daily bulletin at sea, and in 1907 a transatlantic wireless telegraphy service was inaugurated. The rescue of 1,650 passengers from the shipwreck of SS Republic in 1909 was the first of many occasions when wireless was instrumental in saving lives at sea, most notable being those from the Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912; more lives would have been saved had there been sufficient lifeboats. Marconi was one of those who subsequently pressed for greater safety at sea. In 1910 he demonstrated the reception of long (8 km or 5 miles) waves from Ireland in Buenos Aires, but after the First World War he began to develop the use of short waves, which were more effectively reflected by the ionosphere. By 1918 the first link between England and Australia had been established, and in 1924 he was awarded a Post Office contract for short-wave communication between England and the various parts of the British Empire.
    With his achievements by then recognized by the Italian Government, in 1915 he was appointed Radio-Communications Adviser to the Italian armed forces, and in 1919 he was an Italian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. From 1921 he lived on his yacht, the Elettra, and although he joined the Fascist Party in 1923, he later had reservations about Mussolini.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Nobel Prize for Physics (jointly with K.F. Braun) 1909. Russian Order of S t Anne. Commander of St Maurice and St Lazarus. Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (i.e. Knight) of Italy 1902. Freedom of Rome 1903. Honorary DSc Oxford. Honorary LLD Glasgow. Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy 1905. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal. Honorary knighthood (GCVO) 1914. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1920. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1924. Created Marquis (Marchese) 1929. Nominated to the Italian Senate 1929. President, Italian Academy 1930. Rector, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1934.
    Bibliography
    1896, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and in apparatus thereof", British patent no. 12,039.
    1 June 1898, British patent no. 12,326 (transformer or "jigger" resonant circuit).
    1901, British patent no. 7,777 (selective tuning).
    1904, British patent no. 763,772 ("four circuit" tuning arrangement).
    Further Reading
    D.Marconi, 1962, My Father, Marconi.
    W.J.Baker, 1970, A History of the Marconi Company, London: Methuen.
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    Biographical history of technology > Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo

  • 16 head

    1. noun
    1) Kopf, der; Haupt, das (geh.)

    mind your head! — Vorsicht, dein Kopf!; (on sign) Vorsicht - geringe Durchgangshöhe!

    head first — mit dem Kopf zuerst/voran

    head over heels in love — bis über beide Ohren verliebt (ugs.)

    lose one's head — (fig.) den Kopf verlieren

    be unable to make head or tail of something/somebody — aus etwas/jemandem nicht klug werden

    2) (mind) Kopf, der

    in one's head — im Kopf

    enter somebody's head — jemandem in den Sinn kommen

    two heads are better than one — (prov.) zwei Köpfe sind besser als einer

    I've got a good/bad head for figures — ich kann gut rechnen/rechnen kann ich überhaupt nicht

    not quite right in the head — (coll.) nicht ganz richtig [im Kopf] (ugs.)

    have got it into one's head that... — fest [davon] überzeugt sein, dass...

    the first thing that comes into somebody's head — das erste, was jemandem einfällt

    3) (person)

    a or per head — pro Kopf

    4) pl. same (in counting) Stück [Vieh], das
    5) in pl. (on coin)
    6) (working end etc.; also Mus.) Kopf, der

    playback/erasing head — Wiedergabe-/Löschkopf, der

    7) (on beer) Blume, die
    8) (highest part) Kopf, der; (of stairs) oberes Ende; (of list, column) oberste Reihe
    9) (upper or more important end) Kopf, der; (of bed) Kopfende, das
    10) (leader) Leiter, der/Leiterin, die

    head of government — Regierungschef, der/-chefin, die

    head of state — Staatsoberhaupt, das

    11) see academic.ru/33986/headmaster">headmaster; headmistress
    2. attributive adjective

    head waiter — Oberkellner, der

    head office — Hauptverwaltung, die; (Commerc.) Hauptbüro, das

    3. transitive verb
    1) (provide with heading) überschreiben; betiteln
    2) (stand at top of) anführen [Liste]; (lead) leiten; führen [Bewegung]
    3) (direct)
    4) (Footb.) köpfen
    5) (overtake and stop)

    head somebody/something [off] — jemanden/etwas abdrängen

    4. intransitive verb

    head for London — [Flugzeug, Schiff:] Kurs auf London nehmen; [Auto:] in Richtung London fahren

    head towards or for somebody/the buffet — auf jemanden/das Buffet zusteuern

    you're heading for trouble — du wirst Ärger bekommen

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    [hed] 1. noun
    1) (the top part of the human body, containing the eyes, mouth, brain etc; the same part of an animal's body: The stone hit him on the head; He scratched his head in amazement.) der Kopf
    2) (a person's mind: An idea came into my head last night.) der Kopf
    3) (the height or length of a head: The horse won by a head.) die Kopflänge
    4) (the chief or most important person (of an organization, country etc): Kings and presidents are heads of state; ( also adjective) a head waiter; the head office.) das (Ober-)Haupt; Ober...
    5) (anything that is like a head in shape or position: the head of a pin; The boy knocked the heads off the flowers.) der Kopf
    6) (the place where a river, lake etc begins: the head of the Nile.) die Quelle
    7) (the top, or the top part, of anything: Write your address at the head of the paper; the head of the table.) oberes Ende
    8) (the front part: He walked at the head of the procession.) die Spitze
    9) (a particular ability or tolerance: He has no head for heights; She has a good head for figures.) die Begabung
    10) (a headmaster or headmistress: You'd better ask the Head.) der Leiter
    11) ((for) one person: This dinner costs $10 a head.) (pro) Kopf
    12) (a headland: Beachy Head.) die Landspitze
    13) (the foam on the top of a glass of beer etc.) die Blume
    2. verb
    1) (to go at the front of or at the top of (something): The procession was headed by the band; Whose name headed the list?) an erster Stelle stehen
    2) (to be in charge of; to be the leader of: He heads a team of scientists investigating cancer.) leiten
    3) ((often with for) to (cause to) move in a certain direction: The explorers headed south; The boys headed for home; You're heading for disaster!) zusteuern
    4) (to put or write something at the beginning of: His report was headed `Ways of Preventing Industrial Accidents'.) betiteln
    5) ((in football) to hit the ball with the head: He headed the ball into the goal.) köpfen
    •
    - -headed
    - header
    - heading
    - heads
    - headache
    - headband
    - head-dress
    - headfirst
    - headgear
    - headlamp
    - headland
    - headlight
    - headline
    - headlines
    - headlong
    - head louse
    - headmaster
    - head-on
    - headphones
    - headquarters
    - headrest
    - headscarf
    - headsquare
    - headstone
    - headstrong
    - headwind
    - above someone's head
    - go to someone's head
    - head off
    - head over heels
    - heads or tails? - keep one's head
    - lose one's head
    - make head or tail of
    - make headway
    - off one's head
    * * *
    [hed]
    I. NOUN
    1. ANAT Kopf m, Haupt nt geh
    from \head to foot [or toe] von Kopf bis Fuß
    to bow one's \head den Kopf senken
    to nod one's \head mit dem Kopf nicken
    to shake one's \head den Kopf schütteln
    2. no pl (mental capacity) Kopf m, Verstand m
    to put ideas into sb's \head jdm Flausen in den Kopf setzen
    what put that idea into your \head? wie kommst du denn darauf?
    to need a clear \head to do sth einen klaren Kopf brauchen, um etw zu tun
    to have a good \head for sth für etw akk begabt sein
    she's got a good \head for figures sie kann gut mit Zahlen umgehen
    to clear one's \head einen klaren Kopf bekommen
    to get sb/sth out of one's \head sich dat jdn/etw aus dem Kopf schlagen
    I can't get that man out of my \head dieser Mann geht mir einfach nicht mehr aus dem Kopf
    to use one's \head seinen Verstand benutzen
    3. no pl (person unit)
    a [or per] \head pro Kopf [o fam Nase]
    dinner cost £20 a head das Abendessen kommt auf 20 Pfund pro Nase fam; (animal unit) Stück nt
    a hundred \head of cattle einhundert Stück Vieh; (vegetable unit) Kopf m; of celery Staude f
    a \head of broccoli/cauliflower ein Brokkoli/Blumenkohl
    a \head of cabbage ein Kohlkopf m
    a \head of lettuce ein Salat
    4. no pl (measure of length) Kopf m
    to be a \head taller than sb [um] einen Kopf größer sein als jd
    to win by a \head mit einer Kopflänge Vorsprung gewinnen
    5. no pl (top, front part)
    the \head of the bed das Kopfende des Bettes
    at the \head of the queue [or AM line] [ganz] am Anfang der Schlange
    at the \head of the table am Kopf[ende] des Tisches
    6. (blunt end) of a nail, pin, screw Kopf m; (end of tool) of a hammer Haupt nt, Kopf m; of a screwdriver Griff m; of tape, photographic film Anfang m
    the \head of a match der Streichholzkopf
    7. (leader) Chef(in) m(f); of a project, department Leiter(in) m(f); of Church Oberhaupt nt
    the \head of the family das Familienoberhaupt
    \head of section ECON, FIN Fachbereichsleiter(in) m(f)
    a \head of state ein Staatsoberhaupt nt
    8. esp BRIT (head teacher) Schulleiter(in) m(f), Rektor(in) m(f), Direktor(in) m(f) ÖSTERR
    9. no pl (letterhead) [Brief]kopf m; (edge of book/page) Kopf m
    10. usu pl (coin face) Kopf m
    \heads or tails? Kopf oder Zahl?
    11. (beer foam) Blume f, Krone f ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ
    you have to pour the beer slowly so there isn't too big a \head on it man muss das Bier langsam einschenken, damit es nicht zu viel Schaum gibt
    12. (water source) Quelle f
    the \head of a river/stream ein Fluss-/Bachoberlauf m
    13. (accumulated amount)
    \head of steam Dampfdruck m
    to build up a \head of steam ( fig) Dampf machen fam
    14. (of spot on skin) Pfropf m
    the \head of a boil/a pimple der Eiterpfropf einer Beule/eines Pickels
    15. TECH of a tape recorder, video recorder Tonkopf m
    16. COMPUT (data indicating start address) Kopf m
    17.
    ▶ to not be able to get one's \head [a]round sth ( fam) etw nicht kapieren fam
    ▶ to not be able to make \head [n]or tail of sth aus etw dat nicht schlau [o klug] werden, sich dat auf etw akk keinen Reim machen können
    ▶ to bang [or knock] sb's \heads together jdm den Kopf zurechtrücken
    ▶ to beat [or bang] [or knock] one's \head against a brick wall mit dem Kopf durch die Wand wollen
    ▶ to bite [or snap] sb's \head off jdm den Kopf abreißen fig fam, jdn beschimpfen
    ▶ to bring sth to a \head (carry sth too far) etw auf die Spitze treiben; (force a decision) etw forcieren [o zur Entscheidung bringen]
    ▶ to have one's \head buried [or stuck] in a book in ein Buch versunken sein
    ▶ to bury one's \head in the sand, to have one's \head buried in the sand den Kopf in den Sand stecken
    ▶ to come to a \head sich akk zuspitzen
    ▶ to do sb's \head in BRIT ( fam: annoy) jdm auf den Wecker gehen fam; (confuse) jdn überfordern
    ▶ to do sth over sb's \head etw über jds Kopf hinweg tun
    ▶ to fall \head over heels in love with sb sich akk bis über beide Ohren in jdn verlieben
    ▶ to get [or put] one's \head down BRIT (concentrate) sich akk [ganz auf eine Sache] konzentrieren; (sleep) sich akk aufs Ohr hauen fam
    ▶ to get sth into one's \head etw begreifen
    when will you get it into your thick \head that...? wann geht es endlich in deinen sturen Kopf [o kapierst du endlich], dass...? fam
    ▶ to give sb \head ( vulg sl) jdm einen blasen vulg, jdn lecken vulg
    ▶ to give sb their \head jdn gewähren lassen, jdm seinen Willen lassen
    ▶ to go over sb's \head über jds Kopf hinweg handeln
    ▶ to go to sb's \head praise, success jdm zu Kopf steigen pej; alcohol, wine jdm in den [o zu] Kopf steigen
    ▶ a good [or thick] \head of hair schönes volles Haar
    ▶ to have one's \head in the clouds in höheren Regionen schweben hum
    ▶ to have a/no \head for heights BRIT schwindelfrei/nicht schwindelfrei sein
    ▶ to have a good \head on one's shoulders ein helles [o kluges] Köpfchen sein fam
    ▶ to have an old [or wise] \head on young shoulders für sein Alter ziemlich erwachsen [o reif] sein
    ▶ to be \head over heels in love bis über beide Ohren verliebt sein fam
    ▶ to be in over one's \head ( fam) tief im Schlamassel stecken fam
    ▶ to keep one's \head above water sich akk über Wasser halten fig
    ▶ to keep a cool \head einen kühlen Kopf bewahren
    ▶ to keep one's \head einen klaren Kopf bewahren
    ▶ to keep one's \head down den Kopf einziehen, auf Tauchstation gehen hum
    ▶ to laugh one's \head off sich akk halb totlachen fam
    ▶ to be off one's \head ( fam: be crazy, silly) übergeschnappt [o von allen guten Geistern verlassen] sein fam; (stoned) total zu[gedröhnt] [o zugekifft] sein sl
    Ben must be off his \head if he thinks Dad'll give him the money Ben kann nicht ganz bei Trost sein, wenn er glaubt, Dad würde ihm das Geld geben
    ▶ to be [or go] over sb's \head über jds Horizont gehen
    ▶ to put one's \heads together die Köpfe zusammenstecken
    ▶ to put [or stick] one's \head above the parapet BRIT sich akk weit aus dem Fenster lehnen fig
    ▶ \heads will roll Köpfe werden rollen
    ▶ to scream [or shout] one's \head off sich dat die Lunge aus dem Leib schreien
    the dog started barking its \head off der Hund begann, wie verrückt zu bellen
    ▶ to have one's \head screwed on [right [or the right way]] ein patenter Mensch sein
    ▶ to be \head and shoulders above sb/sth jdm/etw haushoch überlegen sein
    ▶ to have taken sth into one's \head sich dat etw in den Kopf gesetzt haben
    ▶ \heads I win, tails you lose ( saying) ich gewinne auf jeden Fall
    attr leitende(r, s)
    \head cook Küchenchef(in) m(f)
    \head office Zentrale f
    \head waiter/waitress Oberkellner m/Oberkellnerin f, SCHWEIZ a. Chef de service m
    1. (be at the front of)
    ▪ to \head sth etw anführen
    the procession was \headed by the Queen die Queen ging der Prozession voran
    2. (be in charge of)
    to \head a firm/an organization eine Firma/Organisation leiten [o führen
    ▪ to \head sth etw überschreiben [o mit einer Überschrift versehen]
    the article wasn't \headed der Artikel hatte keine Überschrift
    to \head the ball den Ball köpfen
    5. HORT
    to \head a tree einen Baum kappen
    1. + adv (proceed in a certain direction)
    to \head home sich akk auf den Heimweg machen
    to \head along a path einen Weg entlanglaufen
    2. HORT salad einen Kopf ansetzen
    3. (go toward)
    ▪ to \head for sth auf dem Weg zu etw dat sein
    he \headed straight for the fridge er steuerte direkt auf den Kühlschrank zu
    to \head for the exit sich akk zum Ausgang begeben geh, zum Ausgang gehen
    to \head for disaster auf eine Katastrophe zusteuern
    ▪ to \head into sth auf etw akk zusteuern
    to be \heading into [some] rough times schweren Zeiten entgegengehen
    * * *
    in cpds (= top, senior) Ober-
    * * *
    head [hed]
    A v/t
    1. anführen, an der Spitze oder an erster Stelle stehen von (oder gen):
    head the table SPORT an der Tabellenspitze stehen, die Tabelle anführen; → bill2 A 8
    2. voran-, vorausgehen (dat)
    3. (an)führen, leiten:
    a commission headed by ein Ausschuss unter der Leitung von
    4. lenken, steuern, dirigieren:
    a) um-, ablenken,
    b) abfangen,
    c) eine Gefahr etc abwenden, ein Gespräch etc abbiegen
    5. übertreffen
    6. einen Fluss etc (an der Quelle) umgehen
    7. mit einem Kopf etc versehen
    8. einen Titel geben (dat), betiteln
    9. die Spitze bilden von (oder gen)
    10. besonders Pflanzen köpfen, Bäume kappen, Schösslinge stutzen, zurückschneiden
    11. Fußball: den Ball köpfen:
    head away wegköpfen;
    head in einköpfen
    a) ein Fass ausböden,
    b) Wasser aufstauen
    B v/i
    1. a) gehen, fahren ( beide:
    for nach):
    be heading back auf dem Rückweg sein
    b) (for) sich bewegen (auf akk … zu), lossteuern, -gehen (auf akk):
    you are heading for trouble wenn du so weitermachst, bekommst du Ärger; → fall A 1
    2. SCHIFF (for) Kurs halten (auf akk), zusteuern oder liegen (auf akk)
    3. (mit der Front) liegen nach:
    4. (einen Kopf) ansetzen (Gemüse etc)
    5. sich entwickeln
    6. entspringen (Fluss)
    head clear mit dem oder per Kopf klären;
    head in einköpfen;
    head wide vorbeiköpfen
    C adj
    1. Kopf…
    2. Spitzen…, Vorder…, an der Spitze stehend oder gehend
    3. Chef…, Haupt…, Ober…, Spitzen…, führend, oberst(er, e, es), erst(er, e, es):
    head coach SPORT bes US Cheftrainer m;
    head cook Chefkoch m;
    head nurse Oberschwester f
    D s
    1. Kopf m:
    have a head umg einen Brummschädel haben, einen dicken oder schweren Kopf haben;
    win by a head (Pferderennen) um eine Kopflänge gewinnen, a. fig um eine Nasenlänge gewinnen;
    work sth out in one’s head etwas im Kopf ausrechnen; → stand B 1
    2. poet und fig Haupt n:
    head of the family Haupt der Familie, Familienvorstand m, -oberhaupt;
    heads of state Staatsoberhäupter; → crowned 1
    3. Kopf m, Verstand m, auch Begabung f:
    he has a (good) head for languages er ist sehr sprachbegabt;
    head for figures Zahlengedächtnis n;
    have a good head for heights schwindelfrei sein;
    two heads are better than one zwei Köpfe wissen mehr als einer
    4. Spitze f, höchste Stelle, führende Stellung:
    at the head of an der Spitze von (od gen)
    5. a) (An)Führer(in), Leiter(in)
    b) Vorstand m, Vorsteher(in)
    c) Chef(in):
    head of government Regierungschef
    d) SCHULE Direktor m, Direktorin f
    6. oberes Ende, oberer Teil oder Rand, Spitze f, z. B.
    a) oberer Absatz (einer Treppe)
    b) Kopf(ende) m(n) (eines Bettes, der Tafel etc)
    c) Kopf m (einer Buchseite, eines Briefes, eines Nagels, einer Stecknadel, eines Hammers, eines Golfschlägers etc)
    d) SCHIFF Topp m (Mast)
    7. Kopf m (einer Brücke oder Mole), oberes oder unteres Ende (eines Sees etc), Boden m (eines Fasses)
    8. a) Kopf m, Spitze f, vorderes Ende, Vorderteil m/n
    b) SCHIFF Bug m
    c) SCHIFF Toilette f (im Bug)
    9. Kopf m, (einzelne) Person:
    one pound a head ein Pfund pro Kopf oder Person
    10. (pl head) Stück n:
    50 head of cattle 50 Stück Vieh
    11. Br Anzahl f, Herde f, Ansammlung f (besonders Wild)
    12. Höhepunkt m, Krise f: → Bes Redew
    13. (Haupt-)Haar n:
    a beautiful head of hair schönes, volles Haar
    14. BOT
    a) (Salat- etc) Kopf m, Köpfchen n (kopfig gedrängter Blütenstand)
    b) (Baum) Krone f, Wipfel m
    15. ANAT Kopf m (vom Knochen oder Muskel)
    16. MED Durchbruchstelle f (eines Geschwürs etc)
    17. Vorgebirge n, Landspitze f, Kap n
    18. pl Vorderseite f (einer Münze):
    heads or tails? Wappen od Zahl?
    19. JAGD Geweih n:
    a deer of the first head ein fünfjähriger Hirsch
    20. Schaum(krone) m(f) (vom Bier etc)
    21. Br Rahm m, Sahne f
    22. Quelle f (eines Flusses)
    23. a) Überschrift f, Titelkopf m
    b) Abschnitt m, Kapitel n
    c) (Haupt)Punkt m (einer Rede etc):
    the head and front das Wesentliche
    24. Abteilung f, Rubrik f, Kategorie f
    25. TYPO (Titel)Kopf m
    26. LING Oberbegriff m
    27. → heading
    28. TECH
    a) Stauwasser n
    b) Staudamm m, -mauer f
    29. PHYS, TECH
    a) Gefälle n, Gefällhöhe f
    b) Druckhöhe f
    c) (Dampf-, Luft-, Gas) Druck m
    d) Säule f, Säulenhöhe f (zur Druckmessung):
    head of water Wassersäule
    30. TECH
    a) Spindelkopf m (einer Fräsmaschine)
    b) Spindelbank f (einer Drehbank)
    c) Support m (einer Bohrbank)
    d) (Gewinde) Schneidkopf m
    e) Saugmassel f (Gießerei)
    f) Kopf-, Deckplatte f, Haube f
    31. MUS
    a) (Trommel) Fell n
    b) (Noten) Kopf m
    c) Kopf m (einer Violine etc)
    32. Verdeck n, Dach n (einer Kutsche etc)
    a) …süchtige(r) m/f(m): → acidhead, hashhead
    b) …fan m:
    filmheadBesondere Redewendungen: above ( oder over) sb’s head zu hoch für jemanden;
    that is ( oder goes) above my head das geht über meinen Horizont oder Verstand;
    talk above sb’s head über jemandes Kopf hinweg reden;
    by head and shoulders an den Haaren (herbeiziehen), gewaltsam;
    (by) head and shoulders um Haupteslänge (größer etc), weitaus;
    head and shoulders above the rest den anderen turm- oder haushoch überlegen;
    from head to foot von Kopf bis Fuß;
    off ( oder out of) one’s head umg übergeschnappt;
    go off one’s head umg überschnappen;
    on one’s head auf dem Kopf stehend;
    on this head in diesem Punkt;
    out of one’s own head
    a) von sich aus, allein,
    b) auf eigene Verantwortung over sb’s head über jemandes Kopf hinweg;
    go over sb’s head to do sth jemanden übergehen und etwas tun;
    b) bis über die oder beide Ohren (verliebt sein) be head over heels in debt bis über die Ohren in Schulden sitzen oder stecken;
    bite ( oder snap) sb’s head off umg jemandem den Kopf abreißen, jemanden fressen;
    bring to a head zum Ausbruch oder zur Entscheidung bringen;
    bury one’s head in the sand den Kopf in den Sand stecken;
    call for sb’s head jemandes Kopf fordern;
    go for a walk to clear one’s head um einen klaren Kopf zu bekommen;
    a) MED eitern, aufbrechen (Geschwür),
    b) fig zur Entscheidung oder Krise kommen, sich zuspitzen cry one’s head off umg sich die Augen ausweinen oder aus dem Kopf weinen;
    it never entered his head to help her es kam ihm nie in den Sinn, ihr zu helfen;
    he’d forget his head if it wasn’t screwed on umg der würde sogar seinen Kopf vergessen, wenn er nicht angeschraubt wäre;
    gather head überhandnehmen;
    give a horse its head einem Pferd die Zügel schießen lassen;
    give sb their head fig jemanden gewähren oder machen lassen;
    give sb head US vulg jemandem einen blasen (jemanden fellationieren);
    his name has gone out of my head mir ist sein Name entfallen;
    go to sb’s head jemandem in den oder zu Kopf steigen (Alkohol, Erfolg etc);
    he has a good head on his shoulders er ist ein kluger Kopf;
    have ( oder be) an old head on young shoulders für sein Alter sehr reif oder vernünftig sein;
    hold sth in one’s head etwas behalten, sich etwas merken;
    hold one’s head up
    a) den Kopf hoch halten,
    b) fig seine Selbstachtung nicht verlieren keep one’s head kühlen Kopf bewahren, die Nerven behalten;
    keep one’s head above water sich über Wasser halten (a. fig);
    a) etwas über den Haufen werfen umg,
    b) einer Sache ein Ende bereiten, Schluss machen mit etwas laugh one’s head off umg sich fast oder halb totlachen;
    let sb have his head jemandem seinen Willen lassen;
    it lies on my head es wird mir zur Last gelegt;
    lose one’s head den Kopf oder die Nerven verlieren;
    make head (gut) vorankommen, Fortschritte machen;
    make head against die Stirn bieten (dat), sich entgegenstemmen (dat);
    I cannot make head or tail of it ich kann daraus nicht schlau werden, ich kann damit nichts anfangen;
    put sth into sb’s head jemandem etwas in den Kopf setzen;
    put sth out of one’s head sich etwas aus dem Kopf schlagen;
    they put their heads together sie steckten die Köpfe zusammen;
    run in sb’s head jemandem im Kopf herumgehen;
    scream one’s head off sich die Lunge aus dem Hals oder Leib schreien umg;
    take the head die Führung übernehmen;
    take sth into one’s head sich etwas in den Kopf setzen;
    talk one’s head off umg reden wie ein Wasserfall oder Buch;
    talk sb’s head off umg jemandem ein Loch in den Bauch reden;
    turn sb’s head jemandem den Kopf verdrehen; → bang1 B 1, cloud A 1, knock B 1, roll B 1, swelled head, swollen head, top1 A 1
    hd abk
    1. hand
    2. head
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Kopf, der; Haupt, das (geh.)

    mind your head! — Vorsicht, dein Kopf!; (on sign) Vorsicht - geringe Durchgangshöhe!

    head first — mit dem Kopf zuerst/voran

    lose one's head — (fig.) den Kopf verlieren

    be unable to make head or tail of something/somebody — aus etwas/jemandem nicht klug werden

    2) (mind) Kopf, der

    two heads are better than one — (prov.) zwei Köpfe sind besser als einer

    I've got a good/bad head for figures — ich kann gut rechnen/rechnen kann ich überhaupt nicht

    not quite right in the head — (coll.) nicht ganz richtig [im Kopf] (ugs.)

    have got it into one's head that... — fest [davon] überzeugt sein, dass...

    the first thing that comes into somebody's head — das erste, was jemandem einfällt

    3) (person)

    a or per head — pro Kopf

    4) pl. same (in counting) Stück [Vieh], das
    5) in pl. (on coin)
    6) (working end etc.; also Mus.) Kopf, der

    playback/erasing head — Wiedergabe-/Löschkopf, der

    7) (on beer) Blume, die
    8) (highest part) Kopf, der; (of stairs) oberes Ende; (of list, column) oberste Reihe
    9) (upper or more important end) Kopf, der; (of bed) Kopfende, das
    10) (leader) Leiter, der/Leiterin, die

    head of government — Regierungschef, der/-chefin, die

    head of state — Staatsoberhaupt, das

    2. attributive adjective

    head waiter — Oberkellner, der

    head office — Hauptverwaltung, die; (Commerc.) Hauptbüro, das

    3. transitive verb
    1) (provide with heading) überschreiben; betiteln
    2) (stand at top of) anführen [Liste]; (lead) leiten; führen [Bewegung]
    4) (Footb.) köpfen

    head somebody/something [off] — jemanden/etwas abdrängen

    4. intransitive verb

    head for London — [Flugzeug, Schiff:] Kurs auf London nehmen; [Auto:] in Richtung London fahren

    head towards or for somebody/the buffet — auf jemanden/das Buffet zusteuern

    * * *
    n.
    Chef- präfix.
    Haupt Häupter n.
    Kopf ¨-e m. v.
    an der Spitze stehen ausdr.

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    head [hed]
    tête ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (e), 1 (i), 1 (j), 1 (l), 1 (n), 1 (p), 1 (v) mal de tête ⇒ 1 (f) chef ⇒ 1 (g) côté face ⇒ 1 (k) être à la tête de ⇒ 2 (a) être en tête de ⇒ 2 (b) diriger ⇒ 2 (c) intituler ⇒ 2 (d) aller ⇒ 3 principal ⇒ 4 (a) premier ⇒ 4 (b)
    (pl sense (l) inv)
    1 noun
    (a) (of human, animal) tête f;
    ∎ she has a fine head of hair elle a de très beaux cheveux ou une très belle chevelure;
    ∎ he's already a head taller than his mother il dépasse déjà sa mère d'une tête;
    ∎ Horseracing to win by a head gagner d'une tête;
    ∎ from head to toe or foot de la tête aux pieds;
    ∎ he was covered in mud from head to toe or foot il était couvert de boue de la tête aux pieds;
    ∎ she was dressed in black from head to toe or foot elle était tout en noir ou entièrement vêtue de noir;
    ∎ to fall head over heels tomber la tête la première;
    ∎ to fall head over heels in love with sb tomber éperdument amoureux de qn;
    ∎ to have one's head in the clouds avoir la tête dans les nuages;
    ∎ he wanders around with his head in the clouds il est toujours dans les nuages;
    ∎ wine always goes to my head le vin me monte toujours à la tête;
    ∎ all this praise has gone to his head toutes ces louanges lui ont tourné la tête;
    ∎ to give a horse its head lâcher la bride à un cheval;
    ∎ figurative give him his head and put him in charge lâchez-lui la bride et laissez-le prendre des responsabilités;
    ∎ to stand on one's head faire le poirier;
    ∎ familiar I could do it standing on my head c'est simple comme bonjour;
    ∎ that's the kind of thing he could do standing on his head c'est le genre de choses qu'il peut faire les yeux fermés;
    ∎ familiar she's got her head screwed on (the right way) elle a la tête sur les épaules;
    ∎ the girl's got a good head on her shoulders cette fille a la tête sur les épaules;
    ∎ he's an old head on young shoulders il est très mûr pour son âge;
    ∎ figurative she's head and shoulders above the rest les autres ne lui arrivent pas à la cheville;
    ∎ familiar to laugh one's head off rire à gorge déployée;
    ∎ familiar to shout or to scream one's head off crier à tue-tête;
    ∎ they'll have your head (on a plate) for this ils auront ta tête pour ça;
    ∎ heads will roll des têtes tomberont;
    ∎ American heads up! attention la tête!;
    ∎ American familiar to give sb a heads up tuyauter qn
    (b) (mind, thoughts) tête f;
    ∎ to do sums in one's head calculer de tête;
    ∎ to take it into one's head to do sth se mettre en tête de faire qch;
    ∎ the idea never entered my head ça ne m'est jamais venu à l'esprit;
    ∎ don't put silly ideas into his head ne lui mettez pas des idées stupides en tête;
    ∎ to get sth into one's head se mettre qch dans la tête;
    ∎ I can't get these dates into my head je n'arrive pas à retenir ces dates;
    ∎ she got it into her head that she was being persecuted elle s'est mis en tête ou dans l'idée qu'on la persécutait;
    ∎ I can't get that into his head je n'arrive pas à le lui faire comprendre;
    ∎ the answer has gone right out of my head j'ai complètement oublié la réponse;
    ∎ I think he made it up out of his own head je crois que c'est lui qui a inventé ça;
    ∎ familiar use your head! fais travailler tes méninges!;
    ∎ familiar it's doing my head in! ça me tape sur le système!, ça me prend la tête!;
    ∎ familiar I just can't get my head round the idea that she's gone je n'arrive vraiment pas à me faire à l'idée qu'elle est partie;
    ∎ familiar to get one's head straight or together se ressaisir
    ∎ to have a good head for business avoir le sens des affaires, s'entendre aux affaires;
    ∎ she has no head for business elle n'a pas le sens des affaires;
    ∎ in my job, you need a good head for figures pour faire mon métier, il faut savoir manier les chiffres;
    ∎ to have a (good) head for heights ne pas avoir le vertige;
    ∎ I've no head for heights j'ai le vertige
    (d) (clear thinking, common sense)
    ∎ keep your head! gardez votre calme!, ne perdez pas la tête!;
    ∎ to keep a cool head garder la tête froide;
    ∎ you'll need a clear head in the morning vous aurez besoin d'avoir l'esprit clair demain matin;
    ∎ to let one's head be ruled by one's heart laisser son cœur gouverner sa raison;
    ∎ British familiar he's off his head il est malade, il n'est pas net;
    ∎ familiar he's not quite right in the head, he's a bit soft in the head il est un peu timbré;
    ∎ familiar to be out of one's head (drunk) être bourré; (on drugs) être défoncé
    (e) (intelligence, ability) tête f;
    ∎ we'll have to put our heads together and find a solution nous devrons nous y mettre ensemble pour trouver une solution;
    ∎ off the top of my head, I'd say it would cost about £1,500 à vue de nez, je dirais que ça coûte dans les 1500 livres;
    ∎ I don't know off the top of my head je ne sais pas, il faudrait que je vérifie;
    ∎ she made some figures up off the top of her head elle a inventé des chiffres;
    ∎ he's talking off the top of his head il raconte n'importe quoi;
    ∎ her lecture was completely over my head sa conférence m'a complètement dépassé;
    ∎ to talk over sb's head s'exprimer de manière trop compliquée pour qn;
    ∎ proverb two heads are better than one deux avis valent mieux qu'un
    (f) familiar (headache) mal m de tête□ ;
    ∎ I've got a bit of a head this morning j'ai un peu mal à la tête ce matin
    (g) (chief, boss → of police, government, family) chef m; (→ of school, company) directeur(trice) m,f;
    ∎ the European heads of government les chefs mpl de gouvernement européens;
    ∎ the crowned heads of Europe les têtes fpl couronnées de l'Europe;
    ∎ head of department (in school) chef m de département; (in company) chef m de service
    (h) (authority, responsibility)
    ∎ she went over my head to the president elle est allée voir le président sans me consulter;
    ∎ they were promoted over my head ils ont été promus avant moi;
    ∎ on your (own) head be it! c'est toi qui en prends la responsabilité!, à tes risques et périls!;
    ∎ literary his blood will be upon your head la responsabilité de sa mort pèsera sur vos épaules
    (i) (top → of racquet, pin, hammer) tête f; (→ of staircase) haut m, tête f; (→ of bed) chevet m, tête f; (→ of arrow) pointe f; (→ of page) tête f; (→ of letter) en-tête m; (→ of cane) pommeau m; (→ of valley) tête f; (→ of river) source f; (→ of mineshaft) bouche f; (→ of column, rocket, still) chapiteau m; (→ of torpedo) cône m; (→ of cask) fond m;
    ∎ at the head of the procession/queue en tête de (la) procession/de (la) queue;
    ∎ sitting at the head of the table assis au bout de la ou en tête de table;
    ∎ to be at the head of the list venir en tête de liste
    (j) Botany & Cookery (of corn) épi m; (of garlic) tête f, gousse f; (of celery) pied m; (of asparagus) pointe f; (of flower) tête f;
    ∎ a head of cauliflower un chou-fleur
    (k) (of coin) côté m face;
    ∎ heads or tails? pile ou face?;
    ∎ I can't make head nor tail of this pour moi ça n'a ni queue ni tête;
    ∎ familiar humorous heads I win, tails you lose pile je gagne, face tu perds;
    ∎ it's a case of heads I win, tails you lose de toutes les façons je suis gagnant
    (l) (of livestock) tête f;
    ∎ 50 head of cattle 50 têtes de bétail
    (m) (in prices, donations)
    ∎ tickets cost £50 a head les billets valent 50 livres par personne
    (n) Electronics (of tape recorder, VCR, disk drive) tête f
    ∎ to win the scrum against the head prendre le ballon à l'adversaire sur son introduction
    (p) (title → of chapter) tête f;
    ∎ under this head sous ce titre;
    ∎ heads of agreement (draft) protocole m d'accord
    (q) Typography en-tête m
    (r) (on beer) mousse f; (on fermenting liquid) chapeau m
    (s) Physics (of fluid, gas) charge f, pression f;
    ∎ loss of head perte f de pression;
    ∎ head of water charge f ou pression f d'eau;
    ∎ figurative to get up or to work up a head of steam s'énerver
    (t) (of drum) peau f
    (u) (of ship) proue f
    (v) Medicine (of abscess, spot) tête f;
    ∎ to come to a head (abscess, spot) mûrir; figurative (problem) arriver au point critique;
    ∎ his resignation brought things to a head sa démission a précipité les choses
    ∎ to give sb head tailler une pipe à qn
    (x) American familiar or Nautical (toilet) toilettes□ fpl;
    ∎ I'm going to the head je vais pisser
    (a) (command → group, organization) être à la tête de; (→ project, revolt) diriger, être à la tête de; (chair → discussion) mener; (→ commission) présider;
    ∎ she headed the attack on the Government's economic policy elle menait l'attaque contre la politique économique du gouvernement
    (b) (be first in, on) être ou venir en tête de;
    ∎ Madrid heads the list of Europe's most interesting cities Madrid vient ou s'inscrit en tête des villes les plus intéressantes d'Europe;
    ∎ Sport she headed the pack from the start elle était en tête du peloton dès le départ
    (c) (steer → vehicle) diriger; (→ person) guider, diriger;
    ∎ we headed the sheep down the hill nous avons fait descendre les moutons de la colline;
    ∎ they are heading the country into chaos ils conduisent le pays au chaos;
    ∎ just head me towards the nearest bar dirigez-moi vers le bar le plus proche;
    ∎ where are you headed? où vas-tu?;
    ∎ Nautical to head a ship westwards mettre le cap à l'ouest
    (d) (provide title for) intituler; (be title of) être en tête de;
    ∎ the essay is headed 'Democracy' l'essai s'intitule ou est intitulé 'Démocratie'
    (e) Football (ball) jouer de la tête;
    ∎ he headed the ball into the goal il a marqué de la tête
    (f) old-fashioned (skirt around → lake) contourner par l'amont; (→ river) contourner par sa source
    (g) (plant) écimer, étêter
    (car, crowd, person) aller, se diriger; Nautical mettre le cap sur;
    ∎ where are you heading? où vas-tu?;
    ∎ you're heading in the right direction vous allez dans la bonne direction;
    ∎ I'm going to head home je vais rentrer;
    ∎ the train headed into/out of a tunnel le train est entré dans un/sorti d'un tunnel
    (a) (main → person) principal
    ►► head barman chef m barman;
    British School head boy = élève chargé d'un certain nombre de responsabilités et qui représente son école aux cérémonies publiques;
    head cashier chef m caissier;
    head chef chef m de cuisine;
    Commerce head clerk premier commis m, chef m de bureau;
    head cold rhume m de cerveau;
    head count vérification f du nombre de personnes présentes;
    ∎ the teacher did a head count la maîtresse a compté les élèves;
    head foreman chef m d'atelier;
    Mining head frame chevalement m;
    head gardener jardinier(ère) m,f en chef;
    Cars head gasket joint m de culasse;
    Technology head gate (of lock) porte f d'amont;
    British School head girl = élève chargée d'un certain nombre de responsabilités et qui représente son école aux cérémonies publiques;
    head housekeeper (in hotel) gouvernante f générale;
    head louse pou m;
    head office siège m social, bureau m central;
    ∎ it's British head office or American the head office on the phone c'est le siège au téléphone;
    head porter (in hotel) chef-portier m; (in university college) appariteur m principal;
    (a) (in rowing) tête-de-rivière f
    (b) Technology canal m de prise ou d'amenée; (of water mill) bief m d'amont;
    head receptionist chef m de réception;
    Music head register voix f de tête;
    British Cars head restraint appuie-tête m, repose-tête m;
    Television & Cinema head shot gros plan m de tête;
    head start (lead) avance f; (advantage) avantage m;
    ∎ he had a ten-minute head start over the others il a commencé dix minutes avant les autres;
    ∎ I got a head start j'ai pris de l'avance sur les autres;
    ∎ go on, I'll give you a head start allez, vas-y, je te donne un peu d'avance;
    ∎ being bilingual gives her a head start over the others étant bilingue, elle est avantagée par rapport aux autres;
    head of state chef m d'État;
    School head teacher (man) proviseur m, directeur m, chef m d'établissement; (woman) directrice f, chef m d'établissement;
    head torch lampe f frontale;
    Music head voice voix f de tête;
    head waiter maître m d'hôtel;
    British School head of year conseiller(ère) m,f (principal(e)) d'éducation
    rentrer, retourner;
    ∎ we headed back to the office nous sommes retournés au bureau;
    ∎ when are you heading back? quand comptez-vous rentrer?
    (of car, person) se diriger vers; Nautical mettre le cap sur;
    ∎ where are you headed for? où vas-tu?;
    ∎ she headed for home elle rentra (à la maison);
    ∎ the country is heading for civil war le pays va droit à la guerre civile;
    ∎ he's heading for trouble il va s'attirer des ennuis;
    ∎ figurative to be heading for a fall courir à l'échec;
    ∎ familiar to head for the hills filer
    (a) (divert → animal, vehicle, person) détourner de son chemin; (→ enemy) forcer à reculer;
    ∎ figurative she headed off all questions about her private life elle a éludé toute question sur sa vie privée
    (b) (crisis, disaster) prévenir, éviter; (rebellion, revolt, unrest) éviter
    partir;
    ∎ the children headed off to school les enfants sont partis pour ou à l'école
    (be leader of) diriger

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  • 18 duty

    ˈdju:tɪ сущ.
    1) почтение, уважение, повиновение Many kisses from all children, and William's respectful duty. ≈ Много поцелуев от детей и почтительный поклон от Уильяма. Syn: homage, respect, submission
    2) налог, пошлина, гербовый сбор customs duties ≈ таможенные пошлины
    3) долг, обязательство to do one's duty ≈ исполнять свой долг civic duties ≈ гражданские обязательства ethical duty, moral duty ≈ моральный долг patriotic duties ≈ долг перед родиной Syn: obligation
    4) а) служебные обязанности;
    дежурство to assume a duty ≈ принимать на себя обязанность to carry out, discharge, do, perform one's duty ≈ выполнять обязанность to shirk one's duty ≈ уклоняться от выполнения обязанностей to take up one's duties ≈ приступить к своим обязанностям legal duty ≈ законное право official duties ≈ служебные обязанности painful duty ≈ неприятная обязанность professional duties ≈ профессиональные обязанности supervisory duties ≈ обязанности руководителя duty officer ≈ амер.;
    воен. дежурный офицер on duty ≈ на дежурстве;
    при исполнении служебных обязанностей doctor on duty ≈ дежурный врач off duty ≈ вне службы out of duty ≈ вне службы, в свободное от работы время duty journey ≈ служебная поездка, командировка Syn: office, function
    1., service б) церк. служба He does Sunday duty in a neighbouring parish. ≈ Он проводил воскресную службу в соседнем приходе.
    5) тех. работа, производительность, режим (машины) ;
    мощность duty of water ≈ гидромодуль долг, моральное обязательство - a sence of * чувство долга - in * bound, in bounden * из чувства долга;
    по долгу службы - one's * to one's country патриотический долг, долг перед родиной - one's *by smb. моральное обязательство по отношению к кому-л. - to do one's * выполнить свой долг - it's your * to do this твой долг сделать это;
    ты должен /обязан/ сделать это - to shirk one's * уклоняться от выполнения своего долга - to fail in one's * не выполнить своего долга - he knows where his * lies он знает в чем состоит его долг /к чему призывает его долг/ - I shall make it my * /a point of */ to do so я буду считать своим долгом сделать это функция, обязанность - bedroom duties супружеские обязанности - the duties of a soldier обязанности солдата - * status( военное) исполнение военных обязанностей - in * status при исполнении служебных обязанностей - to do * for smb., to take smb.'s * выполнять чьи-л. обязанности, замещать кого-л. - to do * for smth. заменять что-л.;
    использоваться /употребляться/ вместо чего-л. - the settee does * for a bed (разговорное) канапе служит /используется/ как кровать - to take up /to enter upon/ one's duties приступать к исполнению своих обязанностей - to assume the duties of parenthood взять на себя родительские обязанности - to return to * возвратиться к исполнению своих обязанностей - to relieve smb. of the * of doing smth. освободить кого-л. от обязанности сделать что-Л. дежурство, вахта;
    пребывание на службе - * officer дежурный офицер - * list (военное) график дежурств - * roster( военное) книга /лист/ нарядов на работу - on * дежурный;
    во время дежурства;
    в служебное время;
    на службе - to be on * дежурить;
    находиться при исполнении служебных обязанностей - I am on * for the week я дежурю /на дежурстве/ в течение недели - to go on * приступить к дежурству /несению дежурства/ - to be off * быть свободным, не дежурить - to come off * сдать дежурство, смениться - to hand over * to smb. сдать дежурство кому-л. - to have the * (морское) нести вахту, стоять на часах - to pull * нести дежурство, быть на дежурстве - to be on temporare * (американизм) быть в командировке (церковное) служба - ministerial /clerical/ * церковная служба воинская повинность миссия, задача - the duties of infantry задачи пехоты - the chief duties of reconnaissance aircraft основные задачи разведывательной авиации (книжное) почтение, уважение, почтительность - to pay one's * to smb. оказывать почтение кому-л. - to present one's * to smb. свидетельствовать свое почтение кому-л. - in * to your wishes из уважения к вашим желаниям, уважая ваши желания гербовый сбор, налог, пошлина - customs duties таможенные пошлины - excise duties акцизный сбор - export duties вывозная пошлина - * ad valorem пошлина, взимаемая (в процентах) со стоимости товара - stamp * почтовый сбор - liable to * подлежащий обложению - to lay /to levy/ duties on smth. обложить что-л. налогом - to take the * off goods освободить товары от обложения налогом (детское) (разговорное) " большие дела" - have you done your *? ты сделал свои дела? ты сделал по-большому? (техническое) производительность (котла, насоса и т. п.) ;
    мощность;
    полезная работа (машины) режим загрузки или работы (машины, конструкции) - heavy /severe/ * тяжелая условия работы - continuous * длительный режим( сельскохозяйственное) гидромодуль (тж. * of water) ad valorem ~ пошлина, пропорциональная стоимости товара ad valorem ~ пошлина "ад валорем";
    стоимостный тариф additional ~ дополнительная обязанность additional ~ дополнительный сбор alcohol excise ~ акцизный сбор за продажу алкогольных напитков allotment ~ распределительный налог antidumping ~ антидемпинговая пошлина back ~ дополнительный сбор basic ~ основной сбор betting ~ тотализаторный налог capital ~ налог на капитал civic ~ гражданская обязанность civic ~ гражданский долг compensatory ~ копенсационная пошлина (ЕЭС) consumer loan ~ налог на потребительскую ссуду consumer loan interest ~ налог на проценты потребительской ссуды contingent ~ условная обязанность contract stamp ~ сбор за биржевую печать countervailing ~ эк. компенсационная пошлина countervailing ~ компенсационная таможенная пошлина customs ~ таможенная пошлина customs ~ таможенный сбор day ~ повседневные обязанности differential ~ дифференциальная пошлина ~ долг, обязанность;
    to do one's duty исполнять свой долг on ~ на дежурстве;
    при исполнении служебных обязанностей;
    doctor on duty дежурный врач donation ~ налог на дарение duty вахта ~ гербовый сбор ~ дежурство ~ долг, обязанность;
    to do one's duty исполнять свой долг ~ задание ~ задача ~ моральное обязательство ~ налог ~ обязанность ~ поручение ~ почтение;
    he sends his duty to you он свидетельствует вам свое почтение ~ пошлина;
    гербовый сбор;
    customs duties таможенные пошлины ~ пошлина ~ тех. работа, производительность, режим (машины) ;
    мощность;
    duty of water с.-х. гидромодуль ~ служба ~ служебные обязанности;
    дежурство;
    to take up one's duties приступить к своим обязанностям ~ функция ~ attr. дежурный;
    duty officer амер. воен. дежурный офицер ~ attr. официальный;
    duty call официальный визит ~ attr. служебный;
    duty journey служебная поездка, командировка ~ attr. официальный;
    duty call официальный визит ~ attr. служебный;
    duty journey служебная поездка, командировка ~ list воен. график дежурств list: ~ список, перечень, реестр;
    инвентарь;
    to enter in a list вносить в список;
    to make a list составлять список;
    duty list расписание дежурств ~ of attendance обязанность присутствовать ~ of care обязанность проявлять внимание ~ of care обязанность соблюдать осторожность ~ of custody обязанность взять на хранение ~ of diligence обязанность проявлять старательность ~ of discovery обязанность предоставлять документы ~ of giving evidence обязанность давать свидетельские показания ~ of loyalty обязанность соблюдать закон ~ of obedience обязанность подчиняться ~ of payment обязанность производить платежи ~ of public consultation обязанность проводить консультации с общественностью ~ of reversion обязанность поворота прав ~ of service воинская обязанность ~ of service служебная обязанность ~ тех. работа, производительность, режим (машины) ;
    мощность;
    duty of water с.-х. гидромодуль ~ attr. дежурный;
    duty officer амер. воен. дежурный офицер officer: duty ~ лицо, собирающее пошлину ~ on capital flows налог на движение капитала ~ on capital flows налог на перелив капитала ~ on consumer loans налог на потребительские ссуды ~ on exports экспортная пошлина ~ on goods in bond сбор с товара, сложенного на таможенном складе до уплаты пошлины ~ on imports and exports пошлина на ввоз и вывоз ~ on shares налог на акции ~ on spirits налог на спиртные напитки ~ to act обязанность действовать ~ to declare обязанность предъявлять вещи, облагаемые пошлиной ~ to deduct обязанность производить удержание ~ to disclose all material facts обязанность сообщать все существенные факты ~ to fence обязанность установить ограждение ~ to file tax returns обязанность представлять налоговую декларацию ~ to give notice обязанность направлять уведомление ~ to inform обязанность сообщать информацию ~ to keep accounts обязанность вести бухгалтерский учет ~ to keep fences in repair обязанность поддерживать ограждение в исправном состоянии ~ to keep secret обязанность хранить тайну ~ to limit damage обязанность ограничивать причиняемый ущерб ~ to live together сем.право обязанность совместного проживания ~ to make statement обязанность делать заявление ~ to mitigate losses обязанность смягчать последствия ущерба ~ to notify обязанность извещать ~ to notify обязанность уведомлять ~ to prove title обязанность подтверждать право ~ to register обязанность проводить регистрацию ~ to save insured property from damage обязанность беречь застрахованное имущество от повреждения ~ to save up обязанность проявлять бережливость ~ to support somebody обязанность содержать кого-либо estate ~ налог на наследство, наследственная пошлина estate ~ налог на наследство estate: ~ duty налог на наследство excess profits ~ налог на сверхприбыль excise ~ акциз, акцизный сбор excise ~ акциз excise ~ акцизный сбор export ~ экспортная пошлина export: ~ attr. экспортный, вывозной;
    export duty экспортная пошлина external rate of ~ ставка таможенной пошлины extra ~ дополнительная пошлина extra: ~ добавочный, дополнительный;
    extra duty дополнительные обязанности field ~ служба в действующей армии financial ~ финансовый сбор fiscal ~ налог. финансовый сбор flat-rate excise ~ акцизный сбор с фиксированной ставкой forest preservation ~ налог на охрану лесов freedom from ~ освобождение от пошлины handing over ~ сбор за доставку ~ почтение;
    he sends his duty to you он свидетельствует вам свое почтение import ~ импортная пошлина import ~ таможенная пошлина на ввозимые товары income tax ~ подоходный налог inland ~ налог внутри страны internal customs ~ таможенная пошлина внутри страны internal ~ внутренний сбор investment ~ налог на капиталовложения legacy ~ налог на наследство legacy ~ наследственная пошлина legal ~ договорная обязанность legal ~ обязанность, налагаемая правом;
    правовая обязанность levy a ~ взимать налог minimum ~ минимальная пошлина motor vehicle ~ налог на автотранспортное средство neglect a ~ не выполнять обязанности night ~ ночная служба night ~ ночная смена night ~ ночной режим night: night attr. ночной, вечерний;
    night duty ночное дежурство;
    night and day всегда, непрестанно nonrecurring ~ разовая пошлина off ~ вне службы official ~ служебная обязанность on active ~ на действительной службе on ~ на дежурстве;
    при исполнении служебных обязанностей;
    doctor on duty дежурный врач on ~ на дежурстве on ~ на службе out of ~ вне службы, в свободное от работы время pay ~ платить налог pay ~ платить пошлину petrol ~ налог на нефть preferential ~ дифференциальная пошлина preferential ~ преференциальный таможенный тариф production ~ налог на производство professional ~ профессиональная обязанность prohibitive ~ запретительная пошлина prohibitory ~ запретительная пошлина protective ~ покровительственная пошлина protective ~ протекционистская пошлина public ~ общественная обязанность public ~ общественный долг real estate ~ налог на недвижимость release ~ налог на разблокированную сумму retaliatory customs ~ карательная таможенная пошлина revenue ~ фискальная пошлина royalty ~ лицензионный платеж sales ~ сбор за продажу sales ~ торговая пошлина social ~ общественный долг special ~ специальная пошлина special excise ~ специальный акцизный сбор specific ~ производительность на единицу мощности specific ~ специфическая пошлина specific ~ удельная производительность stamp ~ гербовый сбор subsidiary ~ дополнительные обязанности succession ~ налог на наследуемую недвижимость succession: ~ attr.: ~ duty налог на наследство;
    the Succession States ист. государства, образовавшиеся после распада Австро-Венгрии supervisory ~ контрольная обязанность ~ служебные обязанности;
    дежурство;
    to take up one's duties приступить к своим обязанностям tobacco ~ налог на табачные изделия transfer ~ гербовый сбор при передаче права собственности transit ~ транзитная пошлина troop ~ воен. строевая служба varying ~ вчт. переменный режим

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > duty

  • 19 Gresley, Sir Herbert Nigel

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    b. 19 June 1876 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 5 April 1941 Hertford, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer, designer of the A4-class 4–6–2 locomotive holding the world speed record for steam traction.
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    Gresley was the son of the Rector of Netherseale, Derbyshire; he was educated at Marlborough and by the age of 13 was skilled at making sketches of locomotives. In 1893 he became a pupil of F.W. Webb at Crewe works, London \& North Western Railway, and in 1898 he moved to Horwich works, Lancashire \& Yorkshire Railway, to gain drawing-office experience under J.A.F.Aspinall, subsequently becoming Foreman of the locomotive running sheds at Blackpool. In 1900 he transferred to the carriage and wagon department, and in 1904 he had risen to become its Assistant Superintendent. In 1905 he moved to the Great Northern Railway, becoming Superintendent of its carriage and wagon department at Doncaster under H.A. Ivatt. In 1906 he designed and produced a bogie luggage van with steel underframe, teak body, elliptical roof, bowed ends and buckeye couplings: this became the prototype for East Coast main-line coaches built over the next thirty-five years. In 1911 Gresley succeeded Ivatt as Locomotive, Carriage \& Wagon Superintendent. His first locomotive was a mixed-traffic 2–6–0, his next a 2–8–0 for freight. From 1915 he worked on the design of a 4–6–2 locomotive for express passenger traffic: as with Ivatt's 4 4 2s, the trailing axle would allow the wide firebox needed for Yorkshire coal. He also devised a means by which two sets of valve gear could operate the valves on a three-cylinder locomotive and applied it for the first time on a 2–8–0 built in 1918. The system was complex, but a later simplified form was used on all subsequent Gresley three-cylinder locomotives, including his first 4–6–2 which appeared in 1922. In 1921, Gresley introduced the first British restaurant car with electric cooking facilities.
    With the grouping of 1923, the Great Northern Railway was absorbed into the London \& North Eastern Railway and Gresley was appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer. More 4–6– 2s were built, the first British class of such wheel arrangement. Modifications to their valve gear, along lines developed by G.J. Churchward, reduced their coal consumption sufficiently to enable them to run non-stop between London and Edinburgh. So that enginemen might change over en route, some of the locomotives were equipped with corridor tenders from 1928. The design was steadily improved in detail, and by comparison an experimental 4–6–4 with a watertube boiler that Gresley produced in 1929 showed no overall benefit. A successful high-powered 2–8–2 was built in 1934, following the introduction of third-class sleeping cars, to haul 500-ton passenger trains between Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
    In 1932 the need to meet increasing road competition had resulted in the end of a long-standing agreement between East Coast and West Coast railways, that train journeys between London and Edinburgh by either route should be scheduled to take 8 1/4 hours. Seeking to accelerate train services, Gresley studied high-speed, diesel-electric railcars in Germany and petrol-electric railcars in France. He considered them for the London \& North Eastern Railway, but a test run by a train hauled by one of his 4–6–2s in 1934, which reached 108 mph (174 km/h), suggested that a steam train could better the railcar proposals while its accommodation would be more comfortable. To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V, a high-speed, streamlined train between London and Newcastle upon Tyne was proposed, the first such train in Britain. An improved 4–6–2, the A4 class, was designed with modifications to ensure free running and an ample reserve of power up hill. Its streamlined outline included a wedge-shaped front which reduced wind resistance and helped to lift the exhaust dear of the cab windows at speed. The first locomotive of the class, named Silver Link, ran at an average speed of 100 mph (161 km/h) for 43 miles (69 km), with a maximum speed of 112 1/2 mph (181 km/h), on a seven-coach test train on 27 September 1935: the locomotive went into service hauling the Silver Jubilee express single-handed (since others of the class had still to be completed) for the first three weeks, a round trip of 536 miles (863 km) daily, much of it at 90 mph (145 km/h), without any mechanical troubles at all. Coaches for the Silver Jubilee had teak-framed, steel-panelled bodies on all-steel, welded underframes; windows were double glazed; and there was a pressure ventilation/heating system. Comparable trains were introduced between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh in 1937 and to Leeds in 1938.
    Gresley did not hesitate to incorporate outstanding features from elsewhere into his locomotive designs and was well aware of the work of André Chapelon in France. Four A4s built in 1938 were equipped with Kylchap twin blast-pipes and double chimneys to improve performance still further. The first of these to be completed, no. 4468, Mallard, on 3 July 1938 ran a test train at over 120 mph (193 km/h) for 2 miles (3.2 km) and momentarily achieved 126 mph (203 km/h), the world speed record for steam traction. J.Duddington was the driver and T.Bray the fireman. The use of high-speed trains came to an end with the Second World War. The A4s were then demonstrated to be powerful as well as fast: one was noted hauling a 730-ton, 22-coach train at an average speed exceeding 75 mph (120 km/h) over 30 miles (48 km). The war also halted electrification of the Manchester-Sheffield line, on the 1,500 volt DC overhead system; however, anticipating eventual resumption, Gresley had a prototype main-line Bo-Bo electric locomotive built in 1941. Sadly, Gresley died from a heart attack while still in office.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1936. President, Institution of Locomotive Engineers 1927 and 1934. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1936.
    Further Reading
    F.A.S.Brown, 1961, Nigel Gresley, Locomotive Engineer, Ian Allan (full-length biography).
    John Bellwood and David Jenkinson, Gresley and Stanier. A Centenary Tribute (a good comparative account).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Gresley, Sir Herbert Nigel

  • 20 allowance

    əˈlauəns
    1. сущ.
    1) норма выдачи денег а) содержание( денежное на определенный срок - суточные и т.д.) family allowance grant an allowance cost-of-living allowance depletion allowance trade-in allowance daily allowance fixed allowance weekly allowance б) карманные деньги
    2) норма выдачи;
    паек at no allowance allowance of ammunition
    3) скидка
    4) допущение;
    принятие;
    принятие в расчет, во внимание Making allowance for the time required by the sound to ascend from the bottom. ≈ Он учел время, необходимое, чтобы звук со дна дошел до него. The spectators are always candid enough to give great allowances to a new actor. ≈ Зрители всегда достаточно снисходительны, чтобы делать большие скидки новому актеру.
    5) мн. довольствие
    6) позволение, разрешение;
    легальность There were many causes of difference between them, the chief being the allowance of slavery in the South. ≈ Между ними много точек расхождения, главная из которых - узаконенность рабства в южных штатах.
    7) тех. допуск
    8) спорт фора, гандикап Syn: handicap
    2. гл.
    1) ограничивать кого-л. строго определенным количеством чего-л. I am allowanced two glasses three hours before dinner. ≈ Мне разрешают выпить два бокала за три часа до ужина.
    2) назначать, выдавать строго ограниченный паек, содержание The evening cup of tea and the allowanced pound of pemmican. ≈ Вечером чашка чая и полагающийся фунт пеммикана.
    порция;
    паек;
    рацион, норма отпуска;
    квота - * of food норма выдачи продуктов - water * норма выдачи воды - * of ammunition( военное) боекомплект - to put on short * перевести на ограниченную норму, урезать норму pl (военное) довольствие;
    виды довольствия денежное пособие, денежная помощь;
    содержание;
    - dress * деньги (получаемый) на одежду;
    - liberal * щедрая денежная помощь - family * (несовременное) пособие многодетным семьям - cost-of-living * надбавка на дороговизну - * in lieu (военное) пайковые деньги - to allot * устанавливать сумму выплаты (американизм) карманные деньги;
    деньги на мелкие расходы( школьника) (юридическое) суммы, выплачиваемые на содержание (кого-л, чего-л) - entertainment * представительские расходы - travelling * проездные;
    суточные;
    (военное) путевые деньги принятие во внимание, в расчет;
    поправка, скидка ( на что-л) ;
    оправдание( чему-л) - * for wind (военное) поправка на ветер - to make *(s) принимать( что-л) во внимание;
    учитывать( что-л) ;
    оправдывать( чем-л) - to make * for smb's illness принимать во внимание чью-л болезнь - to make *s учитывать все обстоятельства;
    всячески оправдывать - to make * for future developments учитывать возможность дальнейших событий скидка или надбавка с учетом( чего-л) - depreciation * (экономика) амортизационные отчисления - to make * for leakage делать скидку на утечку (коммерческое) скидка - an * for cash on a bill скидка за оплату наличными признание( обоснованным, законным), подтверждение;
    уступка - * of claim признание обоснованности претензии примиренчество;
    толерантность;
    одобрение - * of neocolonialism терпимость к неоколониализму (редкое) разрешение;
    позволение (финансовое) допустимое отклонение от стандартного размера и веса монеты (техническое) припуск;
    допуск;
    зазор( положительная разность) - negative * натяг( отрицательная разность) (спортивное) гандикап, фора, преимущество( книжное) рационировать потребление;
    вводить карточную или пайковую систему (книжное) назначать содержание, паек (книжное) (регулярно) выдавать в ограниченном количестве
    accelerated depreciation ~ налоговая скидка на ускоренную амортизацию основного капитала
    adjusted daily ~ for unemployment скорректированное ежедневное пособие по безработице
    allowance денежная помощь ~ денежное пособие ~ денежное содержание ~ деньги на мелкие расходы ~ pl довольствие ~ допустимое отклонение ~ допущение;
    принятие;
    принятие в расчет, во внимание;
    make allowance for his age примите во внимание его возраст ~ допущение ~ карманные деньги ~ квота ~ назначать, выдавать строго ограниченный паек, содержание ~ налоговая скидка ~ необлагаемый налогом минимум пособия на детей и иждивенцев ~ норма выдачи;
    паек;
    at no allowance неограниченно;
    allowance of ammunition боекомплект ~ норма отпуска ~ поправка ~ порция ~ принятие в расчет ~ принятие во внимание ~ тех. припуск;
    допуск ~ разница между массой товаров брутто и нетто ~ разрешение, позволение ~ разрешение ~ рацион ~ скидка ~ транс. скидка с оценки груза ~ (годовое, месячное и т. п.) содержание;
    карманные деньги;
    family allowance пособие многосемейным ~ содержание (годовое, месячное и т. п.) ;
    надбавка;
    карманные деньги;
    довольствие;
    паек;
    разрешение, допуск ~ содержание (месячное, годовое и т.п.) ~ спорт. фора
    ~ for bad debts надбавка на безнадежные долги
    ~ for inferior quality компенсация за низкое качество
    ~ for maintenance of liquidity надбавка на обслуживание ликвидности
    ~ for married couples налог. скидка для супружеских пар
    ~ for night work надбавка за ночную работу
    ~ for office expenses налог. скидка на конторские расходы
    ~ for travelling expenses компенсация транспортных расходов
    ~ for waste компенсация потерь
    ~ for work abroad надбавка за работу за рубежом
    ~ норма выдачи;
    паек;
    at no allowance неограниченно;
    allowance of ammunition боекомплект
    ~ норма выдачи;
    паек;
    at no allowance неограниченно;
    allowance of ammunition боекомплект
    bad weather ~ надбавка за плохие погодные условия
    basic daily ~ основное дневное содержание (ежедневные выплаты, на основе которых начисляются надбавки и т. п.)
    basic unemployment ~ основное пособие по безработице (сумма от которой начисляются надбавки)
    car ~ компенсация за использование личного автомобиля в служебных целях
    care ~ пособие по уходу
    cash ~ денежное пособие;
    карманные деньги
    child ~ пособие на ребенка( в т. ч. продуктовый паек и т. п.) child ~ пособие на содержание ребенка
    child home care ~ пособие по уходу за ребенком дома
    child tax ~ налоговая льгота родителям на детей
    children's ~ пособие на детей
    clothing ~ пособие или надбавка на приобретение одежды (в т.ч. форменной;
    одежда может также выдаваться в готовом виде или в виде полуфабриката с оплатой пошива)
    compensatory ~ надбавка для компенсации убытков
    conscript's daily ~ ежедневное содержание (оклад, паек) призывника
    consolidation ~ объединенная налоговая скидка
    constant attendance ~ пособие по постоянному уходу
    cost-of-living ~ прибавка к заработной плате в связи с повышением прожиточного минимума
    daily ~ ежедневное пособие;
    суточные;
    паек;
    довольствие;
    карманные деньги daily ~ суточное пособие daily: ~ allowance воен. суточное довольствие
    daily subsistence ~ суточная надбавка, обеспечивающая прожиточный минимум
    death ~ пособие на похороны
    demolition ~ компенсация за понесенный ущерб
    dependent child ~ пособие на ребенка, находящегося на иждивении
    dependent relative ~ пособие на иждивенца
    depletion ~ налоговая скидка на доход от разработки истощенного месторождения
    depreciation ~ налоговая скидка на амортизацию
    disablement ~ пособие по инвалидности
    draftee's daily ~ суточное содержание призывника;
    ежедневные выплаты проходящему срочную службу
    draftees' dependents (dependants) ~ пособие иждивенцам призывника (единовременно или в течение всего срока службы)
    duty travel ~ компенсация расходов на командировку
    early retirement ~ пособие при досрочном выходе на пенсию
    earnings adjusted daily ~ ежедневное пособие, исчисляемое с учетом заработка (на последнем месте работы)
    earnings-related unemployment daily ~ пособие по безработице (сумма которого составляет определенный процент от заработка, как правило на последнем месте работы)
    educational maintenance ~ пособие на образование educational maintenance ~ стипендия
    entertainment ~ скидка для компенсации затрат на представительские расходы
    expatriate ~ надбавка работающим за рубежом
    extra family ~ пособие для многодетных семей
    ~ (годовое, месячное и т. п.) содержание;
    карманные деньги;
    family allowance пособие многосемейным family ~ пособие многодетным семьям family ~ семейное пособие
    father's ~ отцовское пособие;
    пособие на ребенка выплачиваемое отцу
    foreign ~ пособие работающим за рубежом
    front veteran's pension ~ пенсия ветерана-фронтовика
    fuel ~ компенсация на приобретение топлива
    guardian's ~ пособие на попечительство
    home care ~ пособие по уходу на дому
    house ~ воен. квартирные( деньги)
    housing ~ дотация на жилье housing ~ пособие на жилье
    hydrocarbon ~ налог. дополнительный налог за выбросы углеводородов в окружающую среду
    initial ~ первоначальная скидка
    innovator's ~ премия рационализатору
    installation ~ пособие на первоначальное устройство
    interest ~ процентная скидка
    investment ~ налоговая льгота за инвестирование капитала
    living ~ пособие на обеспечение средств к жизни
    maintenace ~ пособие на содержание
    maintenace ~ for children пособие на детей
    maintenance ~ пособие
    make ~ for делать скидку make ~ for принимать в расчет make ~ for принимать во внимание
    ~ допущение;
    принятие;
    принятие в расчет, во внимание;
    make allowance for his age примите во внимание его возраст
    maternity ~ соц. пособие по беременности и родам maternity ~ пособие по материнству
    merchandising ~ торговая скидка
    mileage ~ деньги на проезд mileage ~ скидка с учетом дальности пробега
    minimum daily ~ минимальное дневное пособие
    mobility ~ пособие в связи с переездом
    monetary ~ денежное пособие
    national maternity ~ национальное пособие по материнству
    ordinary family ~ обыкновенное пособие многодетным семьям
    ordinary personal ~ обычная скидка с налога на личное имущество
    parent's ~ родительская льгота, родительское пособие
    parent's ~ period период выплаты пособия родителю
    paternity ~ пособие отцу;
    льготы отцу
    per diem ~ суточное пособие
    percentage ~ процентная скидка с налога
    periodical ~ периодическая выплата
    personal ~ личная скидка с подоходного налога personal ~ норма времени на личные нужды
    price ~ скидка с цены
    promotional ~ скидка с цены товара с целью компенсации услуг по продвижению товара на рынок
    qualification ~ надбавка за квалификацию
    rehabilitation ~ пособие на реабилитацию (инвалида)
    remigration ~ ремиграционное пособие (возвращающемуся в страну происхождения)
    removal costs ~ пособие на переезд
    rent ~ надбавка на аренду жилья rent ~ пособие на оплату жилья rent ~ расходы на оплату жилья
    retraining ~ пособие на переподготовку
    secretarial ~ прибавка к заработной плате за секретарские услуги
    separation ~ денежное содержание, выплачиваемое семье военнослужащего separation: ~ attr.: ~ allowance пособие жене солдата или матроса (во время войны)
    service ~ надбавка за обслуживание
    settling-in ~ пособие при переезде на новую квартиру
    short-time ~ кратковременная надбавка short-time ~ кратковременная скидка
    sickness daily ~ ежедневное пособие по болезни
    single-wage ~ единая надбавка к заработной плате
    social ~ социальное пособие
    special child-care ~ специальное пособие по уходу за ребенком
    standard ~ нормативная надбавка времени standard ~ нормативная скидка
    student housing ~ пособие студентам на жилье
    subsistence ~ надбавка, обеспечивающая прожиточный минимум
    supplementary ~ дополнительное пособие
    tax ~ налоговая скидка
    tax-free ~ пособие, не облагаемое налогом
    trade-in ~ скидка с цены при встречной продаже
    training ~ пособие на профобучение training ~ стипендия стажера
    travel ~ валютные льготы для туристов travel ~ налоговая скидка с дорожных расходов
    travelling ~ выплата командировочных travelling ~ компенсация путевых расходов travelling ~ оплата транспортных расходов travelling ~ пособие на транспортные расходы
    treatment and rehabilitation ~ пособие на лечение и реабилитацию
    unemployment ~ пособие по безработице
    value ~ налоговая скидка
    wage earner's ~ налоговая льгота для лиц наемного труда
    wash-up ~ надбавка на умывание
    widowed mother's ~ пособие овдовевшей матери
    writing-down ~ норма частичного списания
    youth ~ пособие для молодежи

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > allowance

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