re-establishment of the currency

1) Economy: currency stabilization, reestablishment of currency, stabilization of currency

2) Business: re-establishment of the currency

1) Economy: reestablishment of currency

2) Business: re-establishment of the currency

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f <Vw> stabilization

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• reestablishment of currency

• re-establishment of the currency

The jurisdiction of the Russian Federation includes:

a) adoption and amending of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal laws, control over their observance;

v. to hide something, usu. stolen things or drugs

n. a secret place containing drugs

n. an establishment for the production of illicit commodities, esp. counterfeit labels or currency

flake

1) (firm and steady or well-balanced: This chair isn't very stable.)

2) (firmly established and likely to last: a stable government.)

3) ((of a person or his character) unlikely to become unreasonably upset or hysterical: She's the only stable person in the whole family.)

4) ((of a substance) not easily decomposed.)

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- stability

1) (a building in which horses are kept.)

2) ((in plural) a horse-keeping establishment: He runs the riding stables.)

stable¹ adj estable

El comparativo de stable se escribe stabler; el superlativo se escribe stablest

stable² n cuadra

tr['steɪbəl]

adjective

1 (unchanging) estable, constante; (firm) sólido,-a, estable; (secure) fijo,-a, estable, seguro,-a; (person - sane) equilibrado,-a

■ she needs a stable relationship necesita una relación estable

■ the patient is in a stable condition el paciente está en estado estacionario

2 SMALLCHEMISTRY/SMALL estable

tr['steɪbəl]

noun

1 (for horses) cuadra, caballeriza; (for other animals) establo

2 (training establishment for horses) cuadra; (school, theatre, club, etc) escuela

transitive verb

1 (put in stable) encerrar en una cuadra; (keep in stable) guardar en una cuadra

\

to close/lock/shut the stable door after the horse has bolted tomar precauciones cuando ya no hay remedio

stable boy / stable girl mozo de cuadra / moza de cuadra

stable ['steɪbəl] vt, - bled ; - bling : poner (ganado) en un establo, poner (caballos) en una caballeriza

stable adj, - bler ; - blest

1) fixed, steady: fijo, sólido, estable

2) lasting: estable, perdurable

a stable government: un gobierno estable

3) : estacionario (en medicina), equilibrado (en psicología)

stable n

: establo m (para ganado), caballeriza f o cuadra f (para caballos)

• caballeriza (Agricultura) adj.

• cuadra adj.

• estable adj.

• sólido, -a adj.

• caballeriza s.f.

• caballos de carrera de un particular s.m.pl.

• cuadra s.f.

• establo s.m.

• poner en una cuadra v.

adjective -bler, -blest

a) (firm, steady) <structure/platform> estable, sólido; <relationship/government> estable; <economy/currency> estable

b) ( Psych) equilibrado

c) (Chem, Phys) estable

noun (often pl) ( for horses) caballeriza f, cuadra f; ( for other livestock) establo m; (before n)

transitive verb poner* or guardar en la cuadra

['steɪbl]

N (=building) cuadra f, caballeriza f ; (=establishment) cuadra f

VT (=keep in stable) guardar en una cuadra; (=put in stable) poner en una cuadra

- shut or close the stable door after the horse has bolted

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adjective -bler, -blest

a) (firm, steady) <structure/platform> estable, sólido; <relationship/government> estable; <economy/currency> estable

b) ( Psych) equilibrado

c) (Chem, Phys) estable

noun (often pl) ( for horses) caballeriza f, cuadra f; ( for other livestock) establo m; (before n)

transitive verb poner* or guardar en la cuadra

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f 1. < Comp> introduction; 2. <Imp/Exp> importation (imp.) ; 3. < Person> in ein Amt induction; 4. < Sozial> introductory course, induction course; 5. <V&M> auf dem Markt launch, start

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счет;
- bank * счет в банке;
- correspondent * корреспондентский счет;
- * current, current * текущий счет;
- joint * общий счет;
- private * счет частного лица или фирмы;
- * rendered счет, предъявленный к оплате;
- on smb.'s * на чьем-то счете в банке;
за чей-то счет;
- for * of smb. (коммерческое) за чей-то счет;
- on * (биржевое) в счет причитающейся суммы;
- to open an * with открывать счет;
- to be in * with иметь счет у кого-л.;
иметь дела, быть связанным с;
- to pay an * заплатить по счету, расплатиться;
- to settle *s with smb. рассчитаться с кем-л.;
свести счеты с кем-л.;
- to pass to * внести на счет расчет;
подсчет;
- money of * (коммерческое) расчетная денежная единица;
- for the * (биржевое) с ликвидацией расчетов в течение ближайшего ликвидационного периода;
- to keep * of smth. вести счет чему-л.;
- to take an * of smth. подсчитать что-л.;
составить список чего-л.;
произвести инвентаризацию чего-л. расчеты, отчетность;
сводка;
- activity *s (экономика) хозяйственные счета;
- to adjust *s (бухгалтерское) приводить книги в порядок;
- to cast *s производить расчет;
- to learn *s изучать счетоводство кредит по открытому счету;
- * card кредитная карточка;
- charge this coat to my * запишите это пальто на мой счет отчет;
доклад, сообщение;
- an accurate * of smth. подробный доклад о чем-л.;
- newspaper * газетный отчет;
газетное сообщение;
- to call to * потребовать отчета;
призвать к ответу;
- to give an * давать отчет, отчитываться;
- to give an * of smth. делать отчет о чем-л.;
описывать что-л.;
давать сведения о чем-л.;
объяснять что-л.;
- to give an * of one's absence объяснять причину своего отсутствия описание, рассказ;
- * of the trip рассказ о поездке;
- to trust smb.'s * доверять чьему-л. рассказу;
- let us have your * of yesterday afternoon расскажи нам о том, что ты делал вчера днем сводка данных мнение, отзыв, оценка;
according to all *s, by all *s по общему мнению, по словам всех;
- not to hold of much * быть невысокого мнения, невысоко ценить причина, основание;
- on this * по этой причине;
- on what *? на каком основании?;
- at all *s в любом случае;
во что бы то ни стало;
- not on any *, on no * ни в коем случае, ни под каким видом;
никоим образом;
- on * of из-за, вследствие, ввиду, по случаю, по причине;
- on the public * в общественных интересах значение, важность;
- of good * имеющий ценность;
пользующийся авторитетом;
- to be reckoned of some * иметь некоторый вес, пользоваться определенным вниманием;
- of no * не имеющий веса;
не пользующийся авторитетом;
- of small * незначительный, не имеющий большого значения;
- to make little * of smb., smth. не придавать кому-л., чему-л. большого значения;
- he is of small * here с ним здесь мало считаются внимание к чему-л.;
принятие в расчет чего-л.;
- to take into * принимать во внимание;
- you must take into * the boy's long illness вы должны учесть, что мальчик долго болел;
- to leave smth. out of *, to take no * of smth. не принимать во внимание что-л. выгода, польза;
- on one's own * в своих собственных интересах;
на свой страх и риск;
- to turn smth. to * обратить что-л. в свою пользу, использовать что-л. в своих интересах;
извлечь из чего-л. выгоду;
- she turned her misfortune to * она извлекла пользу даже из своего несчастья = advertising account;
- they got the toothpaste * они получили заказ на рекламирование зубной пасты (любой) заказчик, покупатель, клиент > the great * (религия) день страшного суда, судный день;
> to be called to one's *, to go to one's *, (американизм) to hand in one's *s покончить счеты с жизнью, умереть;
> he cast up *s его стошнило;
> to give a good * of oneself хорошо себя зарекомендовать, успешно справиться;
добиться хороших результатов;
не ударить лицом в грязь считать, признавать;
- to * smth. a merit считать что-л. достоинством;
- I * him a hero я считаю его героем;
- to * oneself lucky полагать, что ты счастливчик;
- he was *ed guilty его признали виновным;
- he was much *ed of его высоко ценили (to, for) отчитываться;
давать отчет;
- you'll have to * to me if anything happens to her если с ней что-нибудь случится, ты мне ответишь;
- he *ed for the money он отчитался за полученную сумму (for) отвечать, нести ответственность;
- he will * for his crime он ответит за свое преступление( for) (разговорное) убить, уничтожить;
обезвредить;
поймать;
- I *ed for three of the attackers я разделался с тремя из нападающих;
- he *ed for five of the enemy planes он сбил пять вражеских самолетов приписывать, вменять;
- many virtues were *ed to him ему приписывали множество добродетелей (for) объяснять;
- to * for one's absence давать объяснения по поводу своего отсутствия;
- I cannot * for his behaviour я не могу объяснить его поведения;
- he could not * for his foolish mistake он не находил объяснения своей нелепой ошибке (for) вызывать что-л., приводить к чему-л., служить причиной чего-л.;
- the humidity *s for the discomfort повышенная влажность является причиной дискомфорта;
- that *s for it! вот, оказывается, в чем дело! > one cannot * for tastes о вкусах не спорят

absorption ~ поглощающий счет

acceptance ~ акцептный счет

account выгода, польза;
to turn to account использовать;
извлекать выгоду;
to turn a thing to account использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах ~ выгода, польза ~ выгода ~ доклад;
сообщение;
отчет ~ доклад ~ заказчик рекламного агентства ~ запись финансовой операции ~ значение, важность;
of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный;
to make account of придавать значение ~ значение, важность ~ иск с требованием отчетности ~ клиент рекламного агентства ~ мнение, оценка;
by all accounts по общим отзывам;
to give a good account of oneself хорошо себя зарекомендовать ~ мнение ~ объяснять (for - что-л.) ;
this accounts for his behaviour вот чем объясняется его поведение ~ операционный период на Лондонской фондовой бирже ~ основание, причина;
on account of из-за, вследствие ;
on no account ни в коем случае ~ отзыв ~ отчет ~ отчет об исполнении государственного бюджета (Великобритания) ~ отчетность ~ отчитываться (for - в чем-л.) ;
отвечать (for - за что-л.) ~ отчет;
to give an account (of smth.) давать отчет (в чем-л.) ;
to call to account призвать к ответу, потребовать объяснения, отчета ~ оценка ~ подсчет ~ причина, основание ~ расчет ~ расчет по биржевым сделкам ~ регистр ~ рекламодатель ~ сообщение ~ счет ~ счетная формула ~ считать за;
рассматривать как;
I account myself happy я считаю себя счастливым ~ счет, расчет;
подсчет;
for account (of smb.) за счет( кого-л.) ;
on account в счет (чего-л.) ~ торговый баланс ~ учетная статья в бухгалтерской книге ~ финансовый отчет

~ attr.: ~ book конторская книга;
to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть

~ attr.: ~ book конторская книга;
to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть book: account ~ бухгалтерская книга account ~ журнал бухгалтерского учета

~ current текущий счет;
joint account общий счет;
to keep accounts бухг. вести книги current: account ~ (A/C) контокоррент account ~ (A/C) открытый счет account ~ (A/C) текущий банковский счет account ~ текущий счет

~ for давать отчет ~ for нести ответственность ~ for объяснять ~ for отвечать ~ for отчитываться ~ for являться причиной

~ for current operations отчет по текущим операциям

~ for new buildings счет к оплате за новые здания

~ for the accumulation of payments счет к оплате накопленных платежей

~ for various payments счет к оплате различных платежей

~ of charges счет издержек ~ of charges счет накладных расходов

~ of commission счет комиссионных платежей

~ of estate счет за имущество

~ of goods purchased счет на закупленные товары

~ of heating expenses счет затрат на отопление

~ of recourse счет с правом регресса

~ of third party депозитный счет, допускающий платежи в пользу третьих лиц

~ subject to notice счет с уведомлением

~ with correspondent bank счет в банке-корреспонденте

~ with correspondent bank abroad счет в банке-корреспонденте за рубежом

~ with overdraft facility счет, по которому допущен овердрафт ~ with overdraft facility счет с превышением кредитного лимита

~ with the Treasury счет в министерстве финансов

advertising ~ счет за рекламу

annual ~ годовая выписка со счета annual ~ годовой расчет annual ~ ежегодный финансовый отчет;
ежегодный бухгалтерский отчет

appropriation ~ счет ассигнований

asset ~ бухг. счет актива

assets held in post giro ~ активы на счете почтовых жиросчетов

balance ~ балансовый счет

balance an ~ закрывать счет

balance sheet ~ статья бухгалтерского баланса

balance sheet in ~ form балансовый отчет в виде счета

bank ~ банковский счет bank ~ счет в банке bank: ~ attr. банковый, банковский;
bank account счет в банке;
bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками

~ attr.: ~ book конторская книга;
to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть

bill ~ счет векселей

bills payable ~ счет векселей к уплате

block an ~ замораживать счет

blocked ~ блокированный счет blocked ~ заблокированный счет blocked ~ замороженный счет

bonus ~ счет тантьемы

brief ~ краткое изложение

bring the surplus to ~ записывать излишки на счет

budget ~ бюджетный счет budget ~ семейный счет budget ~ счет потребительского кредита

building society ~ счет жилищно-строительного кооператива

business ~ счет предприятий

business establishment savings ~ сберегательный счет делового предприятия

~ мнение, оценка;
by all accounts по общим отзывам;
to give a good account of oneself хорошо себя зарекомендовать

~ отчет;
to give an account (of smth.) давать отчет (в чем-л.) ;
to call to account призвать к ответу, потребовать объяснения, отчета call: ~ to account привлекать к ответственности

capital ~ баланс движения капиталов capital ~ счет основного капитала

capital ~ of the balance of payments счет движения капитала в платежном балансе capital ~ of the balance of payments счет основного капитала в платежном балансе

capital gains and losses ~ счет доходов от прироста капитала и убытков

cash ~ кассовый счет cash ~ счет cash ~ счет кассы

cashier's ~ кассовый счет

central government's ~ правительственный счет

certificate-of-deposit ~ счет депозитного сертификата

charge ~ кредит по открытому счету charge ~ счет charge ~ счет покупателя в магазине

charges ~ счет

checking ~ текущий счет checking ~ чековый счет

cheque ~ чековый счет

cheque only for ~ чек только для безналичных расчетов

child savings ~ детский сберегательный счет

clearing ~ безналичный расчет между банками clearing ~ клиринговый счет

client's ~ счет клиента

close an ~ закрывать счет

commission ~ счет комиссионных платежей

company ~ счет компании

consolidation ~ объединенный счет

contra ~ контрсчет

contributory pension ~ счет взносов в пенсионный фонд

control ~ контрольный счет

cost control ~ контрольный счет затрат cost control ~ субсчет затрат

costing ~ счет издержек

cover ~ счет

credit ~ (амер.) кредит по открытому счету (в магазине) credit ~ счет пассива баланса credit ~ счет с кредитным сальдо

current ~ контокоррент current ~ открытый счет current ~ текущий платежный баланс current ~ текущий счет

current ~ of balance of payments открытый счет платежного баланса current ~ of balance of payments текущий счет платежного баланса

customer's ~ счет клиента customer's ~ счет покупателя

dead ~ заблокированный счет

debit ~ счет актива баланса debit ~ счет с дебетовым сальдо

debit an ~ относить на дебет счета

deferred ~ счет с отсроченным получением сумм

deferred tax ~ счет отсроченного налога

deficiency ~ дефицитный счет

demand deposit ~ депозитный счет

departmental ~ ведомственный счет

deposit ~ авансовый счет deposit ~ депозитный счет deposit ~ срочный вклад

detail ~ подробный отчет

distribution ~ разделенный счет

dollar ~ долларовый счет

dormant ~ неактивный депозитный счет dormant ~ неактивный клиентский счет

drawer's ~ счет трассанта

drawings ~ счет расходов drawings ~ текущий счет

educational ~ счет за обучение

educational savings ~ счет сбережений для получения образования

entertainment ~ счет на представительские расходы

environmental ~ отчет о состоянии окружающей среды

equalization ~ стабилизационный счет equalization ~ счет валютного регулирования

escrow ~ счет, который находится в руках третьей стороны до урегулирования отношений между двумя принципалами escrow ~ счет в банке, на котором блокируются средства за покупку товара в качестве гарантии завершения товарообменной операции escrow ~ счет условного депонирования

establishment ~ счет организации

exhaustive ~ исчерпывающий отчет

expenditure ~ учет расходов

expense ~ счет подотчетных сумм expense ~ счет расходов

family ~ семейный счет

final ~ итоговый отчет final ~ окончательный расчет

fixed asset ~ счет основного капитала

fixed-term deposit ~ срочный вклад

~ счет, расчет;
подсчет;
for account (of smb.) за счет (кого-л.) ;
on account в счет (чего-л.)

for joint ~ на общий счет for joint ~ на объединенный счет

foreign ~ банк. иностранный счет

foreign currency ~ банковский счет в иностранной валюте

foreign exchange ~ счет в иностранной валюте

forwarding ~ счет за транспортировку forwarding ~ экспедиторский счет

freeze an ~ замораживать счет

freight ~ счет за перевозку

frozen ~ заблокированный счет frozen ~ замороженный счет

furnish an ~ предоставлять отчет

general average ~ мор. страх. счет по общей аварии

general ledger ~ счет в главной бухгалтерской книге general ledger ~ счет в общей бухгалтерской книге

giro ~ жирорасчет giro ~ жиросчет

~ мнение, оценка;
by all accounts по общим отзывам;
to give a good account of oneself хорошо себя зарекомендовать

~ отчет;
to give an account (of smth.) давать отчет (в чем-л.) ;
to call to account призвать к ответу, потребовать объяснения, отчета

~ attr.: ~ book конторская книга;
to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть

the great ~ рел. день страшного суда, судный день

guarantee ~ счет на поручителя

~ attr.: ~ book конторская книга;
to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть

heating ~ выч. счет за отопление

homeownership savings ~ банк. счет сбережений от домовладения

~ считать за;
рассматривать как;
I account myself happy я считаю себя счастливым

impersonal ~ счет, не принадлежащий конкретному лицу

improvements ~ счет затрат на усовершенствования

inactive ~ неактивный депозитный счет inactive ~ неактивный клиентский счет

income ~ счет доходов

index-linked savings ~ индексированный сберегательный счет

indexed pension ~ индексированный пенсионный счет

instalment ~ счет платежей в рассрочку

instalment savings ~ сберегательный счет для оплаты покупок в рассрочку

intercompany ~ межфирменный счет

interest ~ счет процентов

interest-bearing ~ счет, приносящий процентный доход

interest-bearing current ~ текущий счет, приносящий процентный доход

interim ~ промежуточный счет

intermediate clearing ~ промежуточный клиринговый счет

investment ~ счет для инвестиционных операций

investment fund ~ счет инвестиционного фонда

investment income ~ счет доходов от капиталовложений

investment savings ~ сберегательный счет капиталовложений

itemized ~ детализированный счет itemized ~ счет с детальным перечислением бухгалтерских проводок itemized ~ счет с детальным перечислением операций

~ current текущий счет;
joint account общий счет;
to keep accounts бухг. вести книги joint ~ общий счет joint ~ объединенный счет

joint venture ~ счет совместного предприятия

~ current текущий счет;
joint account общий счет;
to keep accounts бухг. вести книги accounts: keep ~ бухг. вести счета

key ~ рекл. основной счет

to lay( one's) ~ (with smth.) принимать( что-л.) в расчет to lay (one's) ~ (with smth.) рассчитывать( на что-л.)

to leave out of ~ не принимать во внимание;
not to hold of much account быть невысокого мнения;
to take into account принимать во внимание, в расчет

liability ~ счет пассива

liquidity ~ счет ликвидности

loan ~ ссудный счет loan ~ счет ссуд

loro ~ счет лоро

loss ~ счет убытков

lottery ~ счет выигрышей

maintain an ~ иметь счет в банке

maintenance ~ счет эксплуатационных издержек

~ значение, важность;
of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный;
to make account of придавать значение

margin ~ маржинальный счет margin ~ счет биржевого спекулянта у брокера по сделкам с маржей

master ~ основной счет

master interest ~ основной счет процентов

materials ~ счет на материалы

month-end ~ расчет на конец месяца

monthly ~ ежемесячный расчет monthly ~ ежемесячный счет

movement on the ~ движение на счете

national giro ~ национальный жиросчет

national income ~ счет национального дохода

negotiated deposit ~ договорный депозитный счет

~ значение, важность;
of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный;
to make account of придавать значение need: I ~ not have done it мне не следовало этого делать;
must I go there? - No, you need not нужно ли мне туда идти?-Нет, не нужно no: no голос против ~ pron neg. не (= not a) ;
he is no fool он неглуп, он не дурак;
no such thing ничего подобного;
no doubt несомненно;
no wonder неудивительно ~ не (при сравн. ст. = not any, not at all) ~ нет;
no, I cannot нет, не могу ~ нет;
no, I cannot нет, не могу ~ pron neg. никакой (= not any;
перед существительным передается обыкн. словом нет) ;
he has no reason to be offended у него нет (никакой) причины обижаться ~ pron neg. означает запрещение, отсутствие;
no smoking! курить воспрещается! ~ отказ;
he will not take no for an answer он не примет отказа ~ (pl noes) отрицание;
two noes make a yes два отрицания равны утверждению ~ pron neg. с отглагольным существительным или герундием означает невозможность: there's no knowing what may happen нельзя знать, что может случиться ~ голосующие против;
the noes have it большинство против

nominal ~ активно-пассивный счет nominal ~ номинальный счет nominal ~ пассивный счет

noninterest bearing ~ счет без выплаты процентов

nostro ~ счет ностро

to leave out of ~ не принимать во внимание;
not to hold of much account быть невысокого мнения;
to take into account принимать во внимание, в расчет

notice ~ закрытый счет

numbered ~ пронумерованный счет

~ значение, важность;
of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный;
to make account of придавать значение

~ значение, важность;
of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный;
to make account of придавать значение

offset ~ контрсчет

~ счет, расчет;
подсчет;
for account (of smb.) за счет (кого-л.) ;
on account в счет (чего-л.) on ~ в счет причитающейся суммы on ~ в частичное погашение причитающейся суммы on ~ на условиях кредита on ~ путем частичного платежа в счет причитающейся суммы on one's own ~ на свой страх и риск;
самостоятельно;
on (smb.'s) account ради( кого-л.)

~ основание, причина;
on account of из-за, вследствие ;
on no account ни в коем случае on ~ of за счет on ~ of по причине

on current ~ на текущий счет

on joint ~ на общем счете on joint ~ на общий счет

~ основание, причина;
on account of из-за, вследствие ;
on no account ни в коем случае

on one's own ~ на свой страх и риск;
самостоятельно;
on (smb.'s) account ради (кого-л.)

on own ~ за собственный счет on own ~ на собственный счет

on-demand ~ счет до востребования on-demand ~ текущий счет

open ~ контокоррент open ~ открытый счет open ~ текущий счет

open an ~ открывать счет open: ~ открывать, основывать;
to open a shop открыть магазин;
to open an account открыть счет (в банке)

operating ~ действующий счет

operations ~ счет по операциям

order ~ счет заказов

others' ~ счет "прочие"

outstanding ~ незавершенный расчет outstanding ~ неоплаченный счет

overdrawn ~ счет с превышенным кредитным лимитом overdrawn ~ счет со снятой суммой, превышающей остаток

own ~ собственный счет

payment on ~ уплата в счет причитающейся суммы payment: ~ on account оплата по безналичному расчету

payroll ~ счет заработной платы

pension savings ~ пенсионный сберегательный счет

personal ~ личный счет personal ~ счет частного лица

piecework ~ счет на сдельные работы

postage ~ счет почтовых сборов

postal ~ почтовый счет

premium savings ~ сберегательный счет страховых премий

private ~ счет фирмы private ~ счет частного лица

prize ~ счет с премиальными начислениями

pro forma ~ фиктивный счет

production ~ производственный счет

profit and loss ~ баланс прибылей и убытков

proprietorship ~ счет, обеспечивающий контроль над правом владения предприятием proprietorship ~ счет капитала

provisional ~ временный счет

publicity ~ счет расходов на рекламу

quarterly ~ счет за квартал

realization ~ счет реализации объектов основного капитала при ликвидации фирмы

rebill ~ счет взаимных расчетов

redemption ~ счет отчислений на амортизацию долга

reexchange ~ счет обратного переводного векселя

render an ~ предъявлять счет render: ~ представлять;
to render thanks приносить благодарность;
to render an account for payment представлять счет к оплате;
to render an account докладывать, давать отчет

rental ~ счет арендной платы

replacement ~ счет на замену оборудования

reserve ~ резервный счет

reserve fund ~ счет резервного фонда

residuary ~ остаточный счет

rest-of-the-world ~ счет заграничных операций

revenue ~ счет доходов revenue ~ счет поступлений

running ~ контокоррент, текущий счет running ~ контокоррент running ~ текущий счет running: ~ текущий;
running account текущий счет

safe-custody ~ депонирование ценных бумаг

salary ~ счет заработной платы

sales ~ счет продаж

savings ~ сберегательный счет

savings bank ~ сберегательный счет

savings book ~ счет в банке, все операции по которому отражаются в специальной именной книжке

sectional ~ вспомогательный счет

separate ~ специальный счет

to settle (или to square) accounts (with smb.) рассчитываться( с кем-л.) to settle (или to square) accounts (with smb.) сводить счеты( с кем-л.) accounts: settle ~ оплачивать счета

share ~ паевой счет( в кредитном союзе)

share certificate ~ паевой счет в кредитном союзе (США)

share draft ~ чековый паевой счет, предлагаемый кредитным союзом (США)

share premium ~ счет надбавок к курсу акций share premium ~ счет премий акций

shareholder ~ счет акционера

short-term capital ~ баланс движения краткосрочных капиталов

sight deposit ~ текущий счет

special ~ отдельный счет

special arbitrage ~ специальный арбитражный счет

special drawing ~ специальный открытый счет

special settlement ~ специальный расчетный счет

speculation ~ счет спекулятивных сделок

subsidiary ~ вспомогательный счет

summary ~ заключительный баланс summary ~ итоговый счет summary ~ краткий отчет summary ~ обобщенный счет summary: ~ суммарный, краткий;
summary account краткий отчет

suspense ~ вспомогательный счет suspense ~ промежуточный счет suspense ~ счет переходящих сумм suspense ~ счет причитающихся сумм, взыскание которых сомнительно suspense ~ счет сомнительных дебиторов

take ~ of принимать во внимание take ~ of учитывать

to leave out of ~ не принимать во внимание;
not to hold of much account быть невысокого мнения;
to take into account принимать во внимание, в расчет take into ~ принимать во внимание take into ~ учитывать

tax ~ налоговый счет

tax equalization ~ счет уравнительных налогов

tax-privileged ~ счет с налоговыми льготами

tax-privileged savings ~ сберегательный счет с налоговыми льготами

~ объяснять (for - что-л.) ;
this accounts for his behaviour вот чем объясняется его поведение

time ~ срочный вклад

trading ~ счет, который ведется системой ТАЛИСМАН для каждого участника рынка (Великобритания) trading ~ торговый счет

travel ~ туризм( статья в платежном балансе)

trust ~ доверительный счет trust ~ счет по имуществу, отданному в доверительное управление trust ~ счет фондов социального страхования trust ~ траст, учитываемый на особом счете

account выгода, польза;
to turn to account использовать;
извлекать выгоду;
to turn a thing to account использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах

account выгода, польза;
to turn to account использовать;
извлекать выгоду;
to turn a thing to account использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах turn: ~ to account вносить на счет

unsettled ~ неоплаченный счет unsettled ~ неурегулированный счет

user ~ вчт. счет пользователя

value adjustment ~ счет скорректированной стоимости

variance ~ счет отклонений затрат от нормативного уровня

vostro ~ счет востро vostro ~ счет лоро

wage ~ счет, на который перечисляется заработная плата

withdraw from ~ снимать со счета

working ~ текущий счет

written ~ выписанный счет

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absorption account поглощающий счет acceptance account акцептный счет account выгода, польза; to turn to account использовать; извлекать выгоду; to turn a thing to account использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах account выгода, польза account выгода account доклад; сообщение; отчет account доклад account заказчик рекламного агентства account запись финансовой операции account значение, важность; of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный; to make account of придавать значение account значение, важность account иск с требованием отчетности account клиент рекламного агентства account мнение, оценка; by all accounts по общим отзывам; to give a good account of oneself хорошо себя зарекомендовать account мнение account объяснять (for - что-л.); this accounts for his behaviour вот чем объясняется его поведение account операционный период на Лондонской фондовой бирже account основание, причина; on account of из-за, вследствие ; on no account ни в коем случае account отзыв account отчет account отчет об исполнении государственного бюджета (Великобритания) account отчетность account отчитываться (for - в чем-л.); отвечать (for - за что-л.) account отчет; to give an account (of smth.) давать отчет (в чем-л.); to call to account призвать к ответу, потребовать объяснения, отчета account оценка account подсчет account причина, основание account расчет account расчет по биржевым сделкам account регистр account рекламодатель account сообщение account счет account счетная формула account считать за; рассматривать как; I account myself happy я считаю себя счастливым account счет, расчет; подсчет; for account (of smb.) за счет (кого-л.); on account в счет (чего-л.) account торговый баланс account учетная статья в бухгалтерской книге account финансовый отчет account attr.: account book конторская книга; to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть account attr.: account book конторская книга; to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть book: account account бухгалтерская книга account account журнал бухгалтерского учета account current текущий счет; joint account общий счет; to keep accounts бухг. вести книги current: account account (A/C) контокоррент account account (A/C) открытый счет account account (A/C) текущий банковский счет account account текущий счет account for давать отчет account for нести ответственность account for объяснять account for отвечать account for отчитываться account for являться причиной account for current operations отчет по текущим операциям account for new buildings счет к оплате за новые здания account for the accumulation of payments счет к оплате накопленных платежей account for various payments счет к оплате различных платежей account of charges счет издержек account of charges счет накладных расходов account of commission счет комиссионных платежей account of estate счет за имущество account of goods purchased счет на закупленные товары account of heating expenses счет затрат на отопление account of recourse счет с правом регресса account of third party депозитный счет, допускающий платежи в пользу третьих лиц account subject to notice счет с уведомлением account with correspondent bank счет в банке-корреспонденте account with correspondent bank abroad счет в банке-корреспонденте за рубежом account with overdraft facility счет, по которому допущен овердрафт account with overdraft facility счет с превышением кредитного лимита account with the Treasury счет в министерстве финансов advertising account счет за рекламу annual account годовая выписка со счета annual account годовой расчет annual account ежегодный финансовый отчет; ежегодный бухгалтерский отчет appropriation account счет ассигнований asset account бухг. счет актива assets held in post giro account активы на счете почтовых жиросчетов balance account балансовый счет balance an account закрывать счет balance sheet account статья бухгалтерского баланса balance sheet in account form балансовый отчет в виде счета bank account банковский счет bank account счет в банке bank: account attr. банковый, банковский; bank account счет в банке; bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками account attr.: account book конторская книга; to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть bill account счет векселей bills payable account счет векселей к уплате block an account замораживать счет blocked account блокированный счет blocked account заблокированный счет blocked account замороженный счет bonus account счет тантьемы brief account краткое изложение bring the surplus to account записывать излишки на счет budget account бюджетный счет budget account семейный счет budget account счет потребительского кредита building society account счет жилищно-строительного кооператива business account счет предприятий business establishment savings account сберегательный счет делового предприятия account мнение, оценка; by all accounts по общим отзывам; to give a good account of oneself хорошо себя зарекомендовать account отчет; to give an account (of smth.) давать отчет (в чем-л.); to call to account призвать к ответу, потребовать объяснения, отчета call: account to account привлекать к ответственности capital account баланс движения капиталов capital account счет основного капитала capital account of the balance of payments счет движения капитала в платежном балансе capital account of the balance of payments счет основного капитала в платежном балансе capital gains and losses account счет доходов от прироста капитала и убытков cash account кассовый счет cash account счет cash account счет кассы cashier's account кассовый счет central government's account правительственный счет certificate-of-deposit account счет депозитного сертификата charge account кредит по открытому счету charge account счет charge account счет покупателя в магазине charges account счет checking account текущий счет checking account чековый счет cheque account чековый счет cheque only for account чек только для безналичных расчетов child savings account детский сберегательный счет clearing account безналичный расчет между банками clearing account клиринговый счет client's account счет клиента close an account закрывать счет commission account счет комиссионных платежей company account счет компании consolidation account объединенный счет contra account контрсчет contributory pension account счет взносов в пенсионный фонд control account контрольный счет cost control account контрольный счет затрат cost control account субсчет затрат costing account счет издержек cover account счет credit account (амер.) кредит по открытому счету (в магазине) credit account счет пассива баланса credit account счет с кредитным сальдо current account контокоррент current account открытый счет current account текущий платежный баланс current account текущий счет current account of balance of payments открытый счет платежного баланса current account of balance of payments текущий счет платежного баланса customer's account счет клиента customer's account счет покупателя dead account заблокированный счет debit account счет актива баланса debit account счет с дебетовым сальдо debit an account относить на дебет счета deferred account счет с отсроченным получением сумм deferred tax account счет отсроченного налога deficiency account дефицитный счет demand deposit account депозитный счет departmental account ведомственный счет deposit account авансовый счет deposit account депозитный счет deposit account срочный вклад detail account подробный отчет distribution account разделенный счет dollar account долларовый счет dormant account неактивный депозитный счет dormant account неактивный клиентский счет drawer's account счет трассанта drawings account счет расходов drawings account текущий счет educational account счет за обучение educational savings account счет сбережений для получения образования entertainment account счет на представительские расходы environmental account отчет о состоянии окружающей среды equalization account стабилизационный счет equalization account счет валютного регулирования escrow account счет, который находится в руках третьей стороны до урегулирования отношений между двумя принципалами escrow account счет в банке, на котором блокируются средства за покупку товара в качестве гарантии завершения товарообменной операции escrow account счет условного депонирования establishment account счет организации exhaustive account исчерпывающий отчет expenditure account учет расходов expense account счет подотчетных сумм expense account счет расходов family account семейный счет final account итоговый отчет final account окончательный расчет fixed asset account счет основного капитала fixed-term deposit account срочный вклад account счет, расчет; подсчет; for account (of smb.) за счет (кого-л.); on account в счет (чего-л.) for joint account на общий счет for joint account на объединенный счет foreign account банк. иностранный счет foreign currency account банковский счет в иностранной валюте foreign exchange account счет в иностранной валюте forwarding account счет за транспортировку forwarding account экспедиторский счет freeze an account замораживать счет freight account счет за перевозку frozen account заблокированный счет frozen account замороженный счет furnish an account предоставлять отчет general average account мор.страх. счет по общей аварии general ledger account счет в главной бухгалтерской книге general ledger account счет в общей бухгалтерской книге giro account жирорасчет giro account жиросчет account мнение, оценка; by all accounts по общим отзывам; to give a good account of oneself хорошо себя зарекомендовать account отчет; to give an account (of smth.) давать отчет (в чем-л.); to call to account призвать к ответу, потребовать объяснения, отчета account attr.: account book конторская книга; to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть the great account рел. день страшного суда, судный день guarantee account счет на поручителя account attr.: account book конторская книга; to be called to one's account, to go to one's account амер. to hand in one's account умереть heating account выч. счет за отопление homeownership savings account банк. счет сбережений от домовладения account считать за; рассматривать как; I account myself happy я считаю себя счастливым impersonal account счет, не принадлежащий конкретному лицу improvements account счет затрат на усовершенствования inactive account неактивный депозитный счет inactive account неактивный клиентский счет income account счет доходов index-linked savings account индексированный сберегательный счет indexed pension account индексированный пенсионный счет instalment account счет платежей в рассрочку instalment savings account сберегательный счет для оплаты покупок в рассрочку intercompany account межфирменный счет interest account счет процентов interest-bearing account счет, приносящий процентный доход interest-bearing current account текущий счет, приносящий процентный доход interim account промежуточный счет intermediate clearing account промежуточный клиринговый счет investment account счет для инвестиционных операций investment fund account счет инвестиционного фонда investment income account счет доходов от капиталовложений investment savings account сберегательный счет капиталовложений itemized account детализированный счет itemized account счет с детальным перечислением бухгалтерских проводок itemized account счет с детальным перечислением операций account current текущий счет; joint account общий счет; to keep accounts бухг. вести книги joint account общий счет joint account объединенный счет joint venture account счет совместного предприятия account current текущий счет; joint account общий счет; to keep accounts бухг. вести книги accounts: keep account бухг. вести счета key account рекл. основной счет to lay (one's) account (with smth.) принимать (что-л.) в расчет to lay (one's) account (with smth.) рассчитывать (на что-л.) to leave out of account не принимать во внимание; not to hold of much account быть невысокого мнения; to take into account принимать во внимание, в расчет liability account счет пассива liquidity account счет ликвидности loan account ссудный счет loan account счет ссуд loro account счет лоро loss account счет убытков lottery account счет выигрышей maintain an account иметь счет в банке maintenance account счет эксплуатационных издержек account значение, важность; of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный; to make account of придавать значение margin account маржинальный счет margin account счет биржевого спекулянта у брокера по сделкам с маржей master account основной счет master interest account основной счет процентов materials account счет на материалы month-end account расчет на конец месяца monthly account ежемесячный расчет monthly account ежемесячный счет movement on the account движение на счете national giro account национальный жиросчет national income account счет национального дохода negotiated deposit account договорный депозитный счет account значение, важность; of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный; to make account of придавать значение need: I account not have done it мне не следовало этого делать; must I go there? - No, you need not нужно ли мне туда идти?-Нет, не нужно no: no голос против account pron neg. не (= not a); he is no fool он неглуп, он не дурак; no such thing ничего подобного; no doubt несомненно; no wonder неудивительно account не (при сравн. ст. = not any, not at all) account нет; no, I cannot нет, не могу account нет; no, I cannot нет, не могу account pron neg. никакой (= not any; перед существительным передается обыкн. словом нет); he has no reason to be offended у него нет (никакой) причины обижаться account pron neg. означает запрещение, отсутствие; no smoking! курить воспрещается! account отказ; he will not take no for an answer он не примет отказа account (pl noes) отрицание; two noes make a yes два отрицания равны утверждению account pron neg. с отглагольным существительным или герундием означает невозможность: there's no knowing what may happen нельзя знать, что может случиться account голосующие против; the noes have it большинство против nominal account активно-пассивный счет nominal account номинальный счет nominal account пассивный счет noninterest bearing account счет без выплаты процентов nostro account счет ностро to leave out of account не принимать во внимание; not to hold of much account быть невысокого мнения; to take into account принимать во внимание, в расчет notice account закрытый счет numbered account пронумерованный счет account значение, важность; of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный; to make account of придавать значение account значение, важность; of no account, of small account, амер. no незначительный; to make account of придавать значение offset account контрсчет account счет, расчет; подсчет; for account (of smb.) за счет (кого-л.); on account в счет (чего-л.) on account в счет причитающейся суммы on account в частичное погашение причитающейся суммы on account на условиях кредита on account путем частичного платежа в счет причитающейся суммы on one's own account на свой страх и риск; самостоятельно; on (smb.'s) account ради (кого-л.) account основание, причина; on account of из-за, вследствие ; on no account ни в коем случае on account of за счет on account of по причине on current account на текущий счет on joint account на общем счете on joint account на общий счет account основание, причина; on account of из-за, вследствие ; on no account ни в коем случае on one's own account на свой страх и риск; самостоятельно; on (smb.'s) account ради (кого-л.) on own account за собственный счет on own account на собственный счет on-demand account счет до востребования on-demand account текущий счет open account контокоррент open account открытый счет open account текущий счет open an account открывать счет open: account открывать, основывать; to open a shop открыть магазин; to open an account открыть счет (в банке) operating account действующий счет operations account счет по операциям order account счет заказов others' account счет "прочие" outstanding account незавершенный расчет outstanding account неоплаченный счет overdrawn account счет с превышенным кредитным лимитом overdrawn account счет со снятой суммой, превышающей остаток own account собственный счет payment on account уплата в счет причитающейся суммы payment: account on account оплата по безналичному расчету payroll account счет заработной платы pension savings account пенсионный сберегательный счет personal account личный счет personal account счет частного лица piecework account счет на сдельные работы postage account счет почтовых сборов postal account почтовый счет premium savings account сберегательный счет страховых премий private account счет фирмы private account счет частного лица prize account счет с премиальными начислениями pro forma account фиктивный счет production account производственный счет profit and loss account баланс прибылей и убытков proprietorship account счет, обеспечивающий контроль над правом владения предприятием proprietorship account счет капитала provisional account временный счет publicity account счет расходов на рекламу quarterly account счет за квартал realization account счет реализации объектов основного капитала при ликвидации фирмы rebill account счет взаимных расчетов redemption account счет отчислений на амортизацию долга reexchange account счет обратного переводного векселя render an account предъявлять счет render: account представлять; to render thanks приносить благодарность; to render an account for payment представлять счет к оплате; to render an account докладывать, давать отчет rental account счет арендной платы replacement account счет на замену оборудования reserve account резервный счет reserve fund account счет резервного фонда residuary account остаточный счет rest-of-the-world account счет заграничных операций revenue account счет доходов revenue account счет поступлений running account контокоррент, текущий счет running account контокоррент running account текущий счет running: account текущий; running account текущий счет safe-custody account депонирование ценных бумаг salary account счет заработной платы sales account счет продаж savings account сберегательный счет savings bank account сберегательный счет savings book account счет в банке, все операции по которому отражаются в специальной именной книжке sectional account вспомогательный счет separate account специальный счет to settle (или to square) accounts (with smb.) рассчитываться (с кем-л.) to settle (или to square) accounts (with smb.) сводить счеты (с кем-л.) accounts: settle account оплачивать счета share account паевой счет (в кредитном союзе) share certificate account паевой счет в кредитном союзе (США) share draft account чековый паевой счет, предлагаемый кредитным союзом (США) share premium account счет надбавок к курсу акций share premium account счет премий акций shareholder account счет акционера short-term capital account баланс движения краткосрочных капиталов sight deposit account текущий счет special account отдельный счет special arbitrage account специальный арбитражный счет special drawing account специальный открытый счет special settlement account специальный расчетный счет speculation account счет спекулятивных сделок subsidiary account вспомогательный счет summary account заключительный баланс summary account итоговый счет summary account краткий отчет summary account обобщенный счет summary: account суммарный, краткий; summary account краткий отчет suspense account вспомогательный счет suspense account промежуточный счет suspense account счет переходящих сумм suspense account счет причитающихся сумм, взыскание которых сомнительно suspense account счет сомнительных дебиторов take account of принимать во внимание take account of учитывать to leave out of account не принимать во внимание; not to hold of much account быть невысокого мнения; to take into account принимать во внимание, в расчет take into account принимать во внимание take into account учитывать tax account налоговый счет tax equalization account счет уравнительных налогов tax-privileged account счет с налоговыми льготами tax-privileged savings account сберегательный счет с налоговыми льготами account объяснять (for - что-л.); this accounts for his behaviour вот чем объясняется его поведение time account срочный вклад trading account счет, который ведется системой ТАЛИСМАН для каждого участника рынка (Великобритания) trading account торговый счет travel account туризм (статья в платежном балансе) trust account доверительный счет trust account счет по имуществу, отданному в доверительное управление trust account счет фондов социального страхования trust account траст, учитываемый на особом счете account выгода, польза; to turn to account использовать; извлекать выгоду; to turn a thing to account использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах account выгода, польза; to turn to account использовать; извлекать выгоду; to turn a thing to account использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах turn: account to account вносить на счет unsettled account неоплаченный счет unsettled account неурегулированный счет user account вчт. счет пользователя value adjustment account счет скорректированной стоимости variance account счет отклонений затрат от нормативного уровня vostro account счет востро vostro account счет лоро wage account счет, на который перечисляется заработная плата withdraw from account снимать со счета working account текущий счет written account выписанный счет

law (norma, precepto).

leyes law (derecho)

ganaron con todas las de la ley (informal) they won fair and square

de buena ley reliable, sterling

ley del embudo (informal) one law for oneself and another for everyone else

ley marcial martial law

ley de la oferta y la demanda law of supply and demand

ley sálica (history) Salic law

la Ley Seca (history) Prohibition

la ley de la selva the law of the jungle

ley de la ventaja (sport) advantage (law)

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► nombre femenino

1 (gen) law; (proyecto de ley) bill, act; (regla) rule

2 (de metal) purity

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aprobar una ley to pass a bill

con todas las de la ley proper

de ley (oro) pure 2 (plata) sterling 3 (persona) genuine

¡es ley de vida! that's life!, that's the way the cookie crumbles!

estar fuera de la ley to be outside the law

hecha la ley, hecha la trampa whatever the law, there's always a loophole, laws are made to be broken

por ley by law

la ley del más fuerte the law of the jungle

ley del embudo double standards plural

ley marcial martial law

ley orgánica constitutional law

ley sálica Salic law

ley seca prohibition law

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1) law

2) purity

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1) (=precepto) law

- hecha la ley hecha la trampa

2) (=regla no escrita) law

3) (=principio científico) law

4) (Dep) rule, law

5) (Rel)

6) (Metal)

7) † (=lealtad) loyalty, devotion

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1) ( disposición legal) law

- ley de fuga

- ley del embudo

- ley seca

2) ( justicia)

- ley marcial/sálica

3) (Fís) law

- ley de la oferta y la demanda

4) (de oro, plata) assay value

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= bill, law, legislative enactment, act.

Ex. The conference debated a library bill which aims to set up public libraries in all municipalities with over 30,000 inhabitants.

Ex. A catalogue code is a systematic arrangement of laws and statutes so as to avoid inconsistency and duplication in catalogues.

Ex. Apply this rule to legislative enactments and decrees of a political jurisdiction and decrees of a chief executive having the force of law.

Ex. This act allowed for the establishment of town libraries, which were free and open to all ratepayers and provided by funds from local rates.

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* acatar la ley = follow + the law.

* acatar las leyes = keep on + the right side of the law.

* al borde de la ley = on the edge of the law.

* al margen de la ley = extra-judicial.

* ante la ley = at law.

* anteproyecto de ley = draft of legislation, draft bill.

* aprobar una ley = pass + law, pass + legislation, pass + bill.

* ausencia de ley = anomie.

* autoridad sancionadora de ley = enactor of law.

* castigar con todo el peso de la ley = punish + to the full extent of the law.

* confección de leyes = law-making [lawmaking/law making].

* con todas las de la ley = full-bodied, full-fledged, full-scale.

* con todo el peso de la ley = to the full extent of the law.

* contravenir la ley = contravene + the law, break + the law.

* contravenir una ley = be in breach of + law.

* creación de leyes = rulemaking [rule-making].

* creador de leyes = rule-maker [rulemaker].

* cumplidor de las leyes = law abiding.

* cumplir la ley = observe + the law.

* de acuerdo con la ley = according to law.

* de ley = kosher.

* dentro de la ley = within the law.

* elaboración de leyes = rulemaking [rule-making].

* espíritu de la ley, el = spirit of the law, the.

* formulación de leyes = rulemaking [rule-making].

* hacer cumplir la ley = law enforcement, enforce + law, legal enforcement.

* hacer las leyes más estrictas = tighten + laws.

* infractor de la ley = scofflaw.

* infringir la ley = break + the law.

* infringir una ley = infringe + law, violate + law, breach + law, be in breach of + law.

* interpretar la ley = interpret + the law.

* interpretar la ley según le convenga mejor a Uno = bend + the rules to suit + Posesivo + own purposes, bend + the rules, circumvent + rules.

* ir en contra de la ley = be against the law.

* legislación por decreto ley = delegated legislation.

* ley antigua = ancient law.

* ley antiterrorista = terrorism act.

* ley consuetudinaria = customary law.

* ley cósmica = cosmic law.

* ley de bibliotecas = library law.

* ley de bibliotecas, la = library act, the.

* ley de copyright = copyright law.

* ley de derechos de autor = copyright law.

* ley de dispersión = law of scattering.

* Ley de Dispersión de Bradford = Bradford's distribution law, Bradford's Law of Scatter, Bradford's Law of Scattering.

* ley de frecuencias de palabras de Zipf = Zipf's word frequency law.

* ley de la gravedad, la = law of gravity, the.

* ley de la oferta y la demanda = law of supply and demand.

* ley de la selva, la = law of the jungle, the.

* Ley del Derecho a la Privacidad = privacy law, privacy protection law, Privacy Act.

* ley del más fuerte, la = law of the jungle, the, law of the jungle, the, survival of the fittest, survival of the strongest.

* Ley de los Medicamentos Raros, la = Orphan Drug Act, the.

* ley de los rendimientos decrecientes = law of diminishing returns.

* Ley de Lotka, la = Lotka's Law.

* ley del secreto industrial = trade secret law.

* ley de Pareto = Pareto's law.

* ley de pesos y medidas = weights and measures act.

* ley de productividad científica de Lotka = Lotka's scientific productivity law.

* Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, la = intellectual property law, Copyright Act, the.

* ley de relación exponencial inversa al cuadrado = inverse square law.

* ley de relación exponencial inversa al cubo = inverse cube law.

* ley de responsabilidad por el producto = product liability law.

* Ley de Simplificación de los Procesos Administrativos = Paperwork Reduction Act.

* ley de sucesión = inheritance law.

* ley de vida = fact of life, laws of nature.

* ley draconiana = draconian law.

* leyes = the law of the land.

* leyes científicas = laws of physics.

* leyes contra la difamación = laws of libel.

* leyes de la ciencia = laws of physics.

* leyes de la física = laws of physics.

* leyes de la naturaleza = nature's laws, laws of nature.

* leyes sobre la igualdad = equity laws.

* leyes sobre patentes = patent law.

* leyes vigentes = the law of the land.

* ley exponencial = power law.

* ley exponencial inversa = inverse power law.

* ley marcial = martial law.

* Ley Patriótica, La = USA Patriot Act, the.

* ley penal = penal law.

* ley sobre contratos = contract law.

* ley sucesoria = inheritance law.

* ley tribal = tribal law.

* ley tributaria = tax bill.

* no infringir las leyes = stay on + the right side of the law, keep on + the right side of the law.

* obedecer la ley = observe + the law, follow + the law.

* organismo encargado de hacer cumplir la ley = law enforcing agency.

* por ley = mandated.

* promulgar leyes = enact + legislation.

* promulgar una ley = enact + law, promulgate + rule, promulgate + law.

* proteger por ley = protect by + law.

* proyecto de ley = green paper, legislative bill.

* quebrantar la ley = break + the law.

* rechazar una ley = defeat + legislation.

* redactar leyes = draft + legislation.

* redactar una ley = draft + law.

* respetar la ley = observe + the law.

* respetar las leyes = stay on + the right side of the law, keep on + the right side of the law.

* respetuoso de la ley = law abiding.

* saltarse la ley a la torera = flout + the law.

* ser responsable ante la ley = be criminally liable.

* tener problemas con la ley = fall + foul of the law, go + afoul of the law, fall + afoul of the law.

* transgresor de la ley = lawbreaker.

* valor de ley = force of law.

* violación de la ley = breach of legislation.

* violar una ley = violate + law, break + the law, be in breach of + law.

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1) ( disposición legal) law

- ley de fuga

- ley del embudo

- ley seca

2) ( justicia)

- ley marcial/sálica

3) (Fís) law

- ley de la oferta y la demanda

4) (de oro, plata) assay value

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A (disposición legal) law

conforme a la leyor según disponen las leyes in accordance with the law

promulgar/dictar una ley to promulgate/issue a law

aprobar/derogar una ley to pass/repeal a law

aplicar una ley to apply a law

se acogió a la ley de ciudadanía he sought protection under the citizenship law

violar la ley to break the law

atenerse a la ley to abide by o obey the law

es ley de vida it is a fact of life

hacerle la ley del hielo a algn (Chi, Méx); to give sb the cold shoulder

la ley de la selva or de la jungla the law of the jungle

la ley del más fuerte the survival of the fittest

la ley del mínimo esfuerzo the line of least resistance

la ley del Talión an eye for an eye

aplicar la ley del Talión to demand an eye for an eye

morir en su ley ( Andes); to die as one lived

tenerle ley a algn ( Chi fam); to have it in for sb ( colloq)

hecha la ley hecha la trampa or quien hace la ley hace la trampa every law has its loophole

ley pareja no es dura or rigurosa (CS); a rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone

(en Esp) ≈ immigration laws (pl)

(Andes, Méx): aplicarle a algn la ley de fuga(s) the practice of allowing a prisoner to escape and then shooting him/her in the back

advantage rule

unfair law/rule

organic law

la ley seca Prohibition

tax law

(justicia): la ley the law

todos somos iguales ante la ley we are all equal in the eyes of the law o under the law

un representante de la ley a representative of the law

con todas las de la ley: ganó con todas las de la ley she won very fairly o rightly o deservedly

un almuerzo con todas las de la ley a proper o real lunch

martial law

Salic law

1 (regla natural) law

las leyes de la física the laws of physics

2 ( Bib) law

law of gravity

law of supply and demand

fpl Mendel's laws (pl)

D (de oro, plata) assay value

de buena ley genuine

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◊ violar la ley to break the law;

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ley nf

1. [norma] law;

hecha la ley, hecha la trampa laws are made to be broken;

leyes [derecho] law

ley de fugas = illegal execution of prisoner, pretending that he was shot while trying to escape;

ley fundamental basic law, constitutional law;

ley de incompatibilidades = act regulating which other positions may be held by people holding public office;

ley marcial martial law;

ley seca prohibition law;

aplicar la ley de la ventaja to play the advantage

2. [precepto religioso] law

la ley judía Jewish law

3. [principio] law

la ley del más fuerte the survival of the fittest;

la ley del mínimo esfuerzo: [m5] seguir la ley del mínimo esfuerzo to take the line of least resistance;

ley natural law of nature;

ley de la oferta y de la demanda law of supply and demand;

la ley de la selva the law of the jungle;

la ley del talión an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth;

no cree en la ley del talión she doesn't believe in “an eye for an eye”;

ley de vida: [m5] es ley de vida it's a fact of life

4.

la igualdad ante la ley equality before the law;

con todas las de la ley: ganaron con todas las de la ley they won fair and square;

ser de ley [situación] to be right and proper;

5. [de metal precioso]

de buena ley reliable, sterling;

de mala ley crooked, disreputable

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f law;

es la ley del más fuerte might is right;

una ley no escrita an unwritten law;

con todas las de la ley fairly and squarely

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ley nf

1) : law

fuera de la ley: outside the law

la ley de gravedad: the law of gravity

2) : purity (of metals)

oro de ley: pure gold

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ley n law

   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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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27) Клинические исследования: Central Ethical Committee

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n 1. < Geschäft> Handel, Kommerz business, trading, dealing, commerce Abschluss deal, transaction, bargain, Firma business, concern, enterprise, operation, Laden shop (BE), store (AE), infrml, Büro office; 2. <V&M> sale ■ aus einem Geschäft aussteigen < Börse> back out, opt out (of a deal) ■ das Geschäft hat einen Tiefststand erreicht < Geschäft> business is at a low ebb ■ das Geschäft ist ruhig < Geschäft> business is slack ■ das Geschäft perfekt machen < Geschäft> swing the deal ■ das Geschäft schließen < Geschäft> shut up shop ■ ein Geschäft abschließen < Geschäft> strike a deal, strike a bargain, do a deal with sb, do business with sb ■ ein Geschäft aufmachen < Geschäft> start in business, open a business, set up shop, launch a business, set up in business ■ ein Geschäft betreiben < Geschäft> run a business ■ ein Geschäft durchführen < Geschäft> conclude a transaction, settle a transaction ■ ein Geschäft unter Dach und Fach bringen < Geschäft> swing the deal ■ ein Geschäft zum Abschluss führen < Geschäft> task closure ■ sich vom Geschäft zurückziehen < Geschäft> retire from business ■ über das Geschäft reden < Geschäft> talk business, talk shop ■ von Geschäft zu Geschäft < Geschäft> business to business

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