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   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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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.

1) эк. рынок; базар (специальное место, где осуществляется торговля)

2) эк. рынок (совокупность продавцов и покупателей какого-л. товара)

3)

а) эк. спрос; объем спроса, размер рынка (наличие желающих купить товар; часто используется как характеристика определенной территории)

б) эк. потребители

в) марк. рынок сбыта ( географический район)

г) марк. = market segment

4) эк. конъюнктура, уровень цен, состояние рынка (состояние рынка в значении 2, с точки зрения активности продавцов и покупателей и соответствующей динамики изменения цен)

5) эк., амер. розничный магазин (обычно специализированный, напр., мясной, рыбный)

6) эк., пол. рынок (принцип устройства экономической системы, предусматривающий свободное формирование цен под воздействием спроса и предложения)

7) межд. эк. рынок (экономический союз нескольких стран, в основе которого лежит создание единого торгового пространства для товаров, услуг и факторов производства)

1) эк. продавать, реализовывать, распространять

2) марк. осуществлять маркетинг, позиционировать, продвигать

1) эк. рыночный

а) ( соответствующий рыночным принципам)

б) ( характерный для данного рынка или действующий на данном рынке)

в) ( имеющий отношение к рынку)

2) эк. товарный, рыночный ( предназначенный для продажи на рынке)

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эк. экспансионистская фискальная политика (политика, связанная с ростом государственных расходов и/или понижением налоговых ставок, как правило, с целью предотвращения спада деловой активности)

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(a) (relating to the economy) économique

economic activity tables tableaux m pl d'activité économique;

economic adviser conseiller(ère) m, f économique;

economic agent acteur m ou agent m économique;

economic aid aide f économique;

economic analysis analyse f économique;

economic appraisal évaluation f économique;

economic authorities instances f pl économiques;

economic boom essor m économique;

economic climate climat m économique;

economic cost coût m économique;

economic council conseil m économique;

economic crisis crise f économique;

economic cycle cycle m conjoncturel ou économique;

economic development croissance f par habitant ou per capita;

economic downturn ralentissement m économique;

economic efficiency efficacité f économique;

economic embargo embargo m économique;

economic factor facteur m économique;

economic forces forces f pl économiques;

economic forecast prévisions f pl économiques;

economic growth croissance f ou expansion f économique;

economic growth rate taux m de croissance ou d'expansion économique;

economic indicator indicateur m économique;

economic integration intégration f économique;

economic interest group groupement m d'intérêt économique;

economic life (of machinery, product) vie f économique, durée f de vie utile;

economic lot size série f économique;

economic machinery mécanismes m pl économiques;

economic measure mesure f économique;

EU Economic and Monetary Union Union f économique et monétaire;

economic order quantity quantité f économique de commande;

economic performance résultats m pl économiques;

economic plan plan m économique;

economic planning planification f économique;

economic player acteur ou agent économique;

economic policy politique f économique;

economic principles principes m pl économiques;

economic profit résultat économique;

economic prospects prévisions conjoncturelles ou économiques;

economic rate of return taux de rentabilité économique;

economic recession récession f économique;

economic recovery reprise f ou redressement m économique;

economic research étude f économique;

economic revival relance f économique;

economic sanctions sanctions f pl économiques;

economic sector secteur m économique;

economic situation conjoncture f économique;

economic slump dépression f économique;

economic stranglehold mainmise f économique;

economic strategy stratégie f conjoncturelle;

economic trend tendance f ou conjoncture économique;

economic union union économique;

ACCOUNTANCY economic value added valeur f ajoutée économique;

economic warfare guerre f économique

(b) British (profitable) rentable;

∎ to make sth economic rentabiliser qch

economic batch série f économique;

economic batch quantity effectif m de série économique

hit [hɪt]

coup ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b) succès ⇒ 1 (c) hit ⇒ 1 (d) frapper ⇒ 2 (a), 3 (a) heurter ⇒ 2 (b) attaquer ⇒ 2 (c) toucher ⇒ 2 (d) arriver à ⇒ 2 (e) buter sur ⇒ 2 (f) marquer ⇒ 2 (g)

(pt & pp hit, cont hitting)

1 noun

(a) (blow) coup m;

∎ figurative that was a hit at me ça m'était destiné, c'est moi qui étais visé

(b) Sport (in ball game) coup m; (in shooting) tir m réussi; (in fencing, billiards, snooker) touche f; (in baseball) coup m de batte; (in hockey) coup m de crosse;

∎ to score a hit (in shooting) faire mouche, toucher la cible; (in fencing) faire ou marquer une touche;

∎ he got three hits and one miss il a réussi trois tirs et en a manqué un;

∎ it only counts as a hit if the bullet goes inside the red line le tir ne compte que si la balle se trouve à l'intérieur de la ligne rouge;

∎ that was a hit (in fencing) il y a eu touche

(c) (success → record, play, book) succès m; (→ song) succès m, hit m, tube m;

∎ Frank Sinatra's greatest hits les plus grands succès de Frank Sinatra;

∎ to be a big hit (record, play, book, song) faire ou être un grand succès;

∎ a hit with the public/the critics un succès auprès du public/des critiques;

∎ to make a hit with sb (person) conquérir qn;

∎ she's a hit with everyone elle a conquis tout le monde;

∎ I think you've made a hit with him je crois que tu l'as conquis; (romantically) je crois que tu as fait une touche

(d) Computing (visit to website) hit m, accès m; (in search) occurrence f;

∎ this website counted 20,000 hits last week ce site Web a été consulté 20 000 fois la semaine dernière

(e) familiar crime slang (murder) liquidation f;

∎ a hit by the Mafia un meurtre perpétré par la Mafia

(f) familiar drugs slang (of hard drugs) fix m; (of joint) taffe f; (effect of drugs) effet^□ m (procuré par une drogue);

∎ you get a good hit off that grass cette herbe fait rapidement de l'effet

2 transitive verb

(a) (strike with hand, fist, stick etc → person) frapper; (→ ball) frapper ou taper dans; (→ nail) taper sur; Computing (key) appuyer sur;

∎ to hit sb in the face/on the head frapper qn au visage/sur la tête;

∎ they hit him over the head with a baseball bat ils lui ont donné un coup de batte de baseball sur la tête;

∎ to hit a ball over the net envoyer un ballon par-dessus le filet;

∎ figurative to hit sb where it hurts most toucher qn là où ça fait mal;

∎ also figurative to hit a man when he's down frapper un homme quand il est à terre;

∎ figurative to hit the nail on the head mettre le doigt dessus;

∎ figurative he didn't know what had hit him il se demandait ce qui lui était arrivé

(b) (come or bring forcefully into contact with → of ball, stone) heurter; (→ of bullet, arrow) atteindre, toucher;

∎ the bottle hit the wall and smashed la bouteille a heurté le mur et s'est cassée;

∎ the bullet hit him in the shoulder la balle l'a atteint ou touché à l'épaule;

∎ I've been hit! j'ai été touché!;

∎ the boat was hit by a missile le bateau a été touché par un missile;

∎ the windscreen was hit by a stone une pierre a heurté le pare-brise;

∎ he was hit by a stone il a reçu une pierre;

∎ the two cars didn't actually hit each other en fait les deux voitures ne se sont pas heurtées;

∎ to hit the target (with gun, missile etc) toucher la cible;

∎ figurative his comments really hit their target ses remarques ont vraiment fait mouche, il a mis dans le mille avec ses remarques;

∎ the car hit a tree la voiture a heurté ou est rentrée dans un arbre;

∎ the dog was hit by a car le chien a été heurté par une voiture;

∎ to hit one's head/knee (against sth) se cogner la tête/le genou (contre qch);

∎ to hit sb's head against sth frapper ou cogner la tête de qn contre qch;

∎ figurative to hit the ground running être opérationnel immédiatement;

∎ figurative it suddenly hit me that… il m'est soudain venu à l'esprit que…

(c) (attack → enemy) attaquer

(d) (affect) toucher;

∎ the company has been hit by the recession l'entreprise a été touchée par la récession;

∎ how badly did the postal strike hit you? dans quelle mesure avez-vous été touché par la grève des postes?;

∎ the region worst hit by the earthquake la région la plus sévèrement touchée par le tremblement de terre;

∎ the child's death has hit them all very hard la mort de l'enfant les a tous durement touchés ou frappés;

∎ to be hard hit être durement touché;

∎ familiar it hits everyone in the pocket tout le monde en subit financièrement les conséquences^□, tout le monde le sent passer

(e) (reach) arriver à;

∎ familiar the new model can hit 130 mph on the straight le nouveau modèle peut atteindre les 210 km/h en ligne droite;

∎ familiar to hit a problem se heurter à un problème ou une difficulté;

∎ Music to hit a note (singer) chanter une note; (instrumentalist) jouer une note;

∎ to hit the wrong note (singer) chanter faux; (instrumentalist) & figurative faire une fausse note;

∎ I can't hit those high notes any more je n'arrive plus à chanter ces notes aiguës;

∎ familiar the circus hits town tomorrow night le cirque arrive en ville demain soir^□ ;

∎ familiar we'll stop for dinner when we hit town nous nous arrêterons pour dîner quand nous arriverons dans la ville;

∎ familiar let's hit the beach! allons à la plage!^□ ;

∎ familiar when it hits the shops (product) quand il sera mis en vente^□ ;

∎ to hit an all-time high/low (unemployment, morale etc) atteindre son plus haut/bas niveau^□ ;

∎ familiar to hit rock-bottom atteindre son point le plus bas^□

(f) (encounter → problem, difficulty) buter sur;

∎ the tunnellers hit rock les ouvriers qui creusaient le tunnel sont tombés sur de la roche;

∎ you'll hit the rush hour traffic tu vas te retrouver en plein dans la circulation de l'heure de pointe;

∎ we hit a terrible snowstorm nous nous sommes trouvés dans une tempête de neige terrible;

∎ to hit a sticky or bad patch rencontrer des difficultés

(g) Sport (in cricket → runs) marquer; Fencing toucher;

∎ to hit three runs (in cricket) marquer trois points;

∎ to hit a home run (in baseball) faire un tour complet de circuit

(h) familiar crime slang (kill) descendre, liquider

(i) American familiar (borrow money from) taper;

∎ to hit sb for $10 taper qn de 10 dollars;

∎ to hit sb for a loan emprunter de l'argent à qn^□

(j) (idioms) American familiar

∎ to hit the books se mettre à étudier^□ ;

∎ familiar to hit the bottle (drink) picoler; (start to drink) se mettre à picoler;

∎ familiar to hit the ceiling or roof sortir de ses gonds, piquer une colère folle;

∎ American familiar Cars to hit the gas appuyer sur le champignon;

∎ familiar to hit the hay or the sack aller se mettre au pieu, aller se pieuter;

∎ familiar if ever this hits the headlines we're in trouble si jamais cela paraît dans les journaux nous aurons des problèmes^□ ;

∎ to hit home (remark, criticism) faire mouche;

∎ to hit the jackpot gagner le gros lot;

∎ familiar to hit the road se mettre en route^□ ;

∎ familiar hit the road! (go away) fiche le camp!;

∎ familiar that really hits the spot! (of food, drink) c'est juste ce dont j'avais besoin^□

3 intransitive verb

(a) (person, object) frapper, taper;

∎ don't hit so hard, we're only playing ne frappe ou tape pas si fort, ce n'est qu'un jeu;

∎ the door was hitting against the wall la porte cognait contre le mur;

∎ the atoms hit against each other les atomes se heurtent

(b) (inflation, recession) se faire sentir

►► familiar hit list liste f noire;

∎ to be on sb's hit list être sur la liste noire de qn;

familiar hit man tueur m à gages^□ ;

old-fashioned hit parade hit-parade m;

Military hit rate taux m de tirs réussis; figurative taux m de réussite;

hit record (disque m à) succès m;

hit single, hit song succès m, hit m, tube m;

familiar hit squad commando m de tueurs^□ ;

hit tune air m à succès

➲ hit back

1 intransitive verb

(reply forcefully, retaliate) riposter, rendre la pareille;

∎ he hit back with accusations that they were giving bribes il a riposté en les accusant de verser des pots-de-vin;

∎ to hit back at sb/sth (in speech) répondre à qn/qch;

∎ to hit back at the enemy riposter, répondre à l'ennemi;

∎ our army hit back with a missile attack notre armée a riposté en envoyant des missiles

2 separable transitive verb

∎ to hit the ball back renvoyer le ballon;

➲ hit off separable transitive verb

(a) (in words) décrire ou dépeindre à la perfection; (in paint) représenter de manière très ressemblante; (in mimicry) imiter à la perfection

(b) familiar (idiom)

∎ to hit it off (get on well) bien s'entendre^□ ;

∎ to hit it off with sb bien s'entendre avec qn^□ ;

∎ we hit it off immediately le courant est tout de suite passé entre nous

➲ hit on inseparable transitive verb

(a) (find → solution, plan etc) trouver

(b) American familiar (try to pick up) draguer

➲ hit out intransitive verb

(a) (physically → once) envoyer un coup; (→ repeatedly) envoyer des coups;

∎ he started hitting out at me il s'est mis à envoyer des coups dans ma direction

(b) (in speech, writing)

∎ to hit out at or against s'en prendre à, attaquer;

∎ he hits out in his new book il lance l'offensive dans son nouveau livre

➲ hit up separable transitive verb

familiar drugs slang

∎ to hit it up se piquer

➲ hit upon inseparable transitive verb

(find → solution, plan etc) trouver

(mkt)

ком., марк. n ринок; a ринковий

1. система відносин, які виникають між покупцем і продавцем та завершуються операціями купівлі-продажу товарів чи послуг; ♦ поняття «ринок» можна охарактеризувати з погляду просторового аспекту (місцевий, регіональний, міжнародний та ін. ринки); функціонального (роздрібний продаж, оптова торгівля); видів продукції тощо; 2. група покупців даного товару чи послуги

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active market активний ринок • жвавий ринок; agricultural commodities market сільськогосподарський ринок • ринок сільськогосподарської продукції; American market американський ринок; apparel market ринок одягу; auction market аукціонний ринок; Australian market австралійський ринок; bear market біржовий ринок, на якому спостерігається тенденція до зниження курсів • ринок «ведмедів» • біржа, на якій спостерігається тенденція до зниження курсів; bid market ринок продавця; black market чорний ринок; blocked market заблокований ринок • заморожений ринок; bond market ринок облігацій • ринок довгострокового позикового капіталу; brand-loyal market ринок, прихильний до марки; brisk market активний ринок • жвавий ринок; broad — активний ринок • жвавий ринок; bull market біржовий ринок, на якому спостерігається тенденція до підвищення курсів • ринок «биків» • біржа, на якій спостерігається тенденція до підвищення курсів; buoyant market ринок, який характеризується зростанням цін • зростаюча ринкова кон'юнктура; business market діловий ринок • ринок ділових підприємств; buyer's market ринок покупців • ринок, який характеризується зниженням цін; call money market ринок онкольних позик; Canadian market канадський ринок; capital market ринок капіталу; captive market захоплений ринок; cash market касовий ринок; central market центральний ринок; central wholesale markets оптові ринки сільськогосподарської продукції; closed market закритий ринок; commercial market торговельний ринок • комерційний ринок; commodity market товарний ринок • ринок товарів; common market спільний ринок; competitive market конкурентний ринок • ринок продавців, що конкурують; concentrated market концентрований ринок; congested market перевантажений ринок • переповнений ринок; consumer market ринок споживчих товарів; consumer goods market ринок споживчих товарів; control market контрольний ринок; conventional market традиційний ринок; core market первинний ринок • основний ринок; corn market ринок збіжжя • зернова біржа; credit market кредитний ринок • ринок кредитів; crowded market перенасичений ринок; curb market чорний ринок • неофіційний ринок цінних паперів; currency market валютний ринок; customer market ринок клієнтів; dead market млявий ринок • мертвий ринок; debt market ринок боргових зобов'язань; demographic market демографічний ринок • ринок демографічної групи; depressed market млявий ринок; deregulated market нерегульований ринок; desirable market перспективний ринок; developed market розвинений ринок; diet market ринок дієтичних продуктів; discount market обліковий ринок • дисконтний ринок; discount retailing market ринок роздрібної торгівлі за зниженими цінами; distant market віддалений ринок; domestic market внутрішній ринок; donor market ринок пожертводавців; dual exchange market валютний ринок з подвійним режимом (фіксованого і вільного валютного курсу); dull market млявий ринок; easy market легкодоступний ринок; editorial market редакційний ринок; educational market ринок навчальних послуг; employment market ринок робочих місць; entertainment market ринок розваг; equity market ринок акцій; established market стабільний ринок • сформований ринок; Eurocurrency market євровалютний ринок; expanding market зростаючий ринок • ринок, що розростається; exploratory market пробний ринок; export market експортний ринок; external market зовнішній ринок; farmer's market сільськогосподарський ринок • ринок сільськогосподарської продукції; fast-food market ринок продуктів швидкого приготування; financial market фінансовий ринок; flea market товчок • тандитний ринок (діал.) • блошиний ринок; food market ринок харчових товарів; foreign market закордонний ринок • зовнішній ринок; foreign exchange market ринок закордонної валюти; fourth market ринок четвертого ступеня; free market вільний ринок; freight market фрахтовий ринок; futures market ф'ючерсний ринок; global market всесвітній ринок • світовий ринок; gold market ринок золота; government market збут товарів та послуг державними установами; grain market ринок збіжжя • зернова біржа; grey market «сірий» ринок • неконтрольований грошовий ринок; growing market зростаючий ринок • ринок, що розростається; hard-sell market ринок з високою конкуренцією продавців; health care market ринок засобів охорони здоров'я; heterogeneous market неоднорідний ринок; high income market ринок покупців з високим доходом; home market внутрішній ринок; home video market ринок побутової відеоапаратури • ринок програм для побутової відеоапаратури; homogeneous market однорідний ринок; housing market ринок житла; illegal market нелегальний ринок; imperfect market недосконалий ринок; inactive market млявий ринок • застій на ринку; individual market окремий ринок; industrial market ринок товарів промислового значення • ринок промислових підприємств; information market ринок інформації; initial market початковий ринок; institutional market ринок організацій; insurance market страховий ринок; interbank market міжбанківський ринок; intermediate market проміжний ринок; internal market внутрішній ринок; international market міжнародний ринок; international monetary market міжнародний валютний ринок; introductory market ринок, на який виставляється новий товар; investment market інвестиційний ринок; job market ринок робочих місць; kerb market чорний ринок • неофіційний ринок цінних паперів; labour market ринок праці • ринок робочої сили; large market великий ринок; large-volume market ринок великого обсягу; legal market офіційний ринок; license market ринок ліцензій; lifestyle market ринок товарів, які відповідають різним стилям життя; limited market обмежений ринок; liquid market ліквідний ринок; livestock market ринок худоби; loan market ринок позик; loanable funds market ринок позичкового капіталу; local market місцевий ринок; locked market закритий ринок; low-end market ринок дешевих товарів і послуг; lucrative market прибутковий ринок; main market головний ринок • основний ринок; major market головний ринок • основний ринок; manpower market ринок робочої сили; mass market масовий ринок; mature market повністю сформований ринок; media market ринок засобів реклами; merchandise market товарний ринок; middle-class market ринок покупців середнього класу; mid-range market ринок товарів середньої вартості • ринок послуг середньої вартості; military market ринок продукції військового призначення; money market грошовий ринок; monopolistically competitive market ринок монополістичної конкуренції; monopolized market монополізований ринок; narrow market обмежений ринок • вузький ринок; national market національний ринок; nationwide market загальнонаціональний ринок; offered market ринок пропозицій; oligopolistic market олігополістичний ринок; one-sided market односторонній ринок; open market відкритий ринок; open-air market ринок під відкритим небом; organized market організований ринок; outside market зовнішній ринок; overseas market закордонний ринок; overstocked market перевантажений ринок; overt market відкритий ринок; parallel markets паралельні ринки; pegged market регульований ринок; perfect market ідеальний ринок • досконалий ринок; peripheral market периферійний ринок; personal market ринок товарів особистого споживання; potential market потенційний ринок; price-sensitive market ринок, чутливий до цін • ринок, який чутливо реагує на зміни цін; primary market первинний ринок • основний ринок • ринок сировини; produce market товарний ринок • базар; producer market ринок виробників • ринок товарів промислового призначення; productive market продуктивний ринок; professional market ринок професій; profitable market прибутковий ринок; property market ринок нерухомості; prospective market потенційний ринок; protected market захищений ринок; public market відкритий ринок; purchasing market ринок покупців; pure market чистий ринок; ready market ринок, на якому швидко продаються товари; real estate market ринок нерухомості; receptive market місткий ринок; recession-hit market застійний ринок • ринок зниження продажу; regional market місцевий ринок • регіональний ринок; regulated market регульований ринок; repurchase market вторинний ринок цінних паперів; resale market ринок перепродажу; reseller market ринок проміжних продавців • ринок перепродажу; residential market ринок домовласників • ринок житлових приміщень; restrictive market ринок з обмеженим попитом • ринок з тенденцією до монополії; retail market роздрібний ринок • ринок продажу в роздріб; rigged market маніпульований ринок; rural market сільський ринок; sales market ринок збуту; saturated market насичений ринок; secondary market вторинний ринок цінних паперів • другорядний ринок; securities market; selected market вибраний ринок; selective market вибірковий ринок; sellers' market ринок продавців • ринок, який характеризується підвищенням цін; sensitive market нестійкий ринок; services market ринок послуг; share market фондовий ринок • ринок акцій; shrinking market звужений ринок • ринок, що звужується; sluggish market млявий ринок; small market невеликий ринок; soft market ринок, який характеризується падінням цін; soft-drink market ринок безалкогольних напоїв; specialized market спеціалізований ринок; speculative market спекулятивний ринок; spot market ринок наявного товару; stagnant market млявий ринок; steady market стійкий ринок; stock market фондова біржа; strong market стійкий ринок; target market цільовий ринок; technical market ринок промислових товарів • промисловий ринок; territorial market територіальний ринок; test market пробний ринок; thin market неактивний ринок; third market ринок третього ступеня; tight market ринок з обмеженим попитом; tight money market ринок, який характеризується підвищеною ставкою відсотка; top market провідний ринок; total market загальний обсяг ринку • увесь ринок; trade market ринок сфери торгівлі • торговельний ринок; traditional market традиційний ринок; transport market транспортний ринок; two-tier market валютний ринок з подвійним режимом • двоярусний ринок; uncertain market нестійкий ринок; unsettled market нестійкий ринок; untapped market неосвоєний ринок; upbeat market ринок з аукціонним продажем; upscale market ринок споживачів, вищих від середнього рівня; urban market міський ринок; video market відеоринок • ринок відео-продукції; village market сільський ринок; volatile market нестійкий ринок • ринок, на якому ціни швидко змінюються; weak market «слабкий» ринок; wholesale market оптовий ринок; widely dispersed market розгалужений ринок; youth market

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at the market за ринковою ціною • з урахуванням ринкової ціни; at today's market на сьогоднішній біржі; in line with the market відповідно до ринкового курсу; in the market на ринку; market access доступ до ринку; market analysis аналіз ринку; market and pricing policy ринкова і цінова політика; market area місце ринку; market capitalization ринкова капіталізація; market competition ринкова конкуренція; market concentration концентрація ринку • ринкова концентрація; market conditions ринкова кон'юнктура; market conduct ринкова поведінка; market crash біржовий крах; market development освоєння ринку • розширення ринку; market dominance провідне становище на ринку; market economy; market entry вихід на ринок • входження в ринок; market entry strategy стратегія виходу на ринок; market equilibrium ринкова рівновага; market exchange rate ринковий обмінний курс • ринковий валютний курс; market exit вихід з ринку; market factor фактор збуту • ринковий фактор; market failure недоліки ринкової системи • хиби ринкової системи; market fluctuation коливання цін на ринку • кон'юнктурне коливання; market fluctuation equalization fund фонд стабілізації ринку; market forces ринкові сили; market forecast прогноз ринкової кон'юнктури; market form форма ринку; market-geared за обліком ринку; market glut затоварювання ринку • перенасичення ринку; market grouping формування ринку; market information інформація про ринок; market interest rate ринкова ставка відсотка; market intervention ринкова інтервенція; market investigation кон'юнктурне дослідження; market leader товар, який має питому вагу в обороті ринку • ринковий лідер; market level рівень ринку; market maker особа, що реально впливає на стан справ на валютному чи фондовому ринку; market making scheme план впливу на ринок; market mechanism ринковий механізм; market monitoring моніторинг ринку • обстеження ринку; market niche ринкова ніша; market observer оглядач ринку; market operations ринкові операції; market operator біржовий маклер; market organization структура ринку; market-orientated орієнтований на ринок; market outlet канал реалізації • ринок збуту • торговельна точка; market penetration проникнення на ринок; market performance ефективність ринку • функціонування ринку; market place місце торгівлі • ринкова площа • ринок; market position стан ринку • становище ринку • ринкова кон'юнктура; market potential потенціал ринку; market power ринкова влада; market preview реклама товарів, які вступають на ринок; market price ринкова ціна • курс біржі • ринковий курс цінних паперів; market profile зріз ринку • аналіз потенційного ринку збуту за індивідуальною характеристикою; market promotion просування товару на ринок; market prospects перспективи ринку; market quotation біржове котирування • біржовий курс; market rate ринкова ставка • біржовий курс • ринкова норма • ринковий курс; market reaction ринкова реакція; market rent ринкова рента; market report огляд ринкової кон'юнктури • огляд стану ринку • ринковий звіт; market research аналіз стану ринку • вивчення ринкової кон'юнктури • дослідження ринку • аналіз ринкового потенціалу нового продукту • вивчення можливості ринку; market researcher дослідник ринку; market saturation насичення ринку; market section ринковий сектор; market segment ринковий сегмент • частина ринку; market segmentation сегментація ринку; market segregation відокремлення ринку; market-sensitive чутливий до коливання ринкової кон'юнктури; market share питома вага товару в обороті ринку • питома вага компанії в обороті ринку; market sharing поділ ринку • спеціалізація ринку; market sharing agreement угода про поділ ринку; market situation становище на ринку • стан ринку • ринкова кон'юнктура; market structure ринкова структура; market surveillance обстеження ринку • вивчення ринку; market survey обстеження ринку • вивчення ринку; market system ринкова система • ринкова економіка; markettarget price ринкова планова ціна • ринкова цільова ціна; market tendencies ринкові тенденції; market testing перевірка товару ринком • ринкові випробування; market transactions ринкові операції; market trend ринкова тенденція; market value ринкова вартість • курсова вартість • біржова вартість; on the market на ринку; to affect a market впливати/вплинути на ринок; to assess a market оцінювати/оцінити ринок; to bear the market грати на пониження ціни; to be in market продаватися; to be in the market for something бути потенційним покупцем чого-небудь • мати намір купити що-небудь; to branch out into a new market поширюватися/поширитися на новий ринок; to break into the market проникати/проникнути на ринок; to bring something on the market випускати/випустити що-небудь на ринок; to broaden a market розширяти/розширити ринок; to build up a market створювати/створити ринок; to bull the market грати на підвищення цін; to come into the market виходити/вийти на ринок; to come onto the market виходити/вийти на ринок; to command a market контролювати ринок; to congest a market переповнювати/переповнити ринок; to conquer a market завойовувати/завоювати ринок; to corner a market монополізувати ринок; to create a market створювати/створити ринок; to cultivate a market освоювати/освоїти ринок; to develop a market розвивати/розвинути ринок; to divide the market розділяти/ розділити ринок; to dominate the market переважати на ринку • домінувати на ринку; to enter the market виходити/вийти на ринок; to evaluate a market оцінювати/оцінити ринок; to expand a market розширяти/розширити ринок; to explore a market досліджувати/дослідити ринок; to find a market шукати/знайти ринок збуту; to find a ready market шукати/знайти швидкий збут; to flood the market наповнювати/наповнити ринок товарами; to force the market справляти/справити тиск на ринок; to gain access to the market одержувати/одержати доступ на ринок; to get access to the market одержувати/одержати доступ на ринок; to glut the market перенасичувати/перенаситити ринок; to hold a market підтримувати/підтримати ринок; to investigate a market досліджувати/дослідити ринок; to launch on the market випускати/випустити на ринок • пускати/пустити в хід; to manipulate the market впливати/вплинути на ринок; to meet with a ready market шукати/знайти швидкий збут; to monopolize the market монополізувати ринок; to open up new markets відкривати/відкрити нові ринки; to oust from the market витискати/витиснути з ринку; to overstock the market переповнювати/переповнити ринок; to preempt the market заздалегідь опановувати/опанувати ринок; to penetrate the market проникати/проникнути на ринок; to play the market спекулювати на біржі; to price oneself out of the market встановлювати/встановити підвищені ціни на ринку • визначати/визначити занадто високі ціни на ринку • переоцінювати/переоцінити що-небудь на ринку • встановлювати/встановити підвищені ціни на ринку і таким чином втратити своє місце на ринку; to put on the market випускати/випустити на ринок; to regain the market повертати/повернути ринок • знову оволодівати/оволодіти ринком; to retain the market зберігати/зберегти ринок; to rig the market впливати/вплинути на ринок • штучно знижувати/знизити ціни на ринку; to rule the market домінувати на ринку; to secure a market забезпечувати/забезпечити ринок; to seize a market захоплювати/захопити ринок; to segment a market розподіляти/розподілити ринок; to sound out the market випробовувати/випробувати ринок • перевіряти/перевірити ринок; to split the market розподіляти/розподілити ринок; to study the market вивчати/вивчити ринок; to sweep the market завойовувати/завоювати ринок; to take over a market захоплювати/захопити ринок; to test a market розвідувати/розвідати ринок; to win a market завойовувати/завоювати ринок; to withdraw from the market вилучити/вилучати з ринку • виходити/вийти з ринку

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   Portugal's economy, under the influence of the European Economic Community (EEC), and later with the assistance of the European Union (EU), grew rapidly in 1985-86; through 1992, the average annual growth was 4-5 percent. While such growth rates did not last into the late 1990s, portions of Portugal's society achieved unprecedented prosperity, although poverty remained entrenched. It is important, however, to place this current growth, which includes some not altogether desirable developments, in historical perspective. On at least three occasions in this century, Portugal's economy has experienced severe dislocation and instability: during the turbulent First Republic (1911-25); during the Estado Novo, when the world Depression came into play (1930-39); and during the aftermath of the Revolution of 25 April, 1974. At other periods, and even during the Estado Novo, there were eras of relatively steady growth and development, despite the fact that Portugal's weak economy lagged behind industrialized Western Europe's economies, perhaps more than Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar wished to admit to the public or to foreigners.

   For a number of reasons, Portugal's backward economy underwent considerable growth and development following the beginning of the colonial wars in Africa in early 1961. Recent research findings suggest that, contrary to the "stagnation thesis" that states that the Estado Novo economy during the last 14 years of its existence experienced little or no growth, there were important changes, policy shifts, structural evolution, and impressive growth rates. In fact, the average annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate (1961-74) was about 7 percent. The war in Africa was one significant factor in the post-1961 economic changes. The new costs of finance and spending on the military and police actions in the African and Asian empires in 1961 and thereafter forced changes in economic policy.

   Starting in 1963-64, the relatively closed economy was opened up to foreign investment, and Lisbon began to use deficit financing and more borrowing at home and abroad. Increased foreign investment, residence, and technical and military assistance also had effects on economic growth and development. Salazar's government moved toward greater trade and integration with various international bodies by signing agreements with the European Free Trade Association and several international finance groups. New multinational corporations began to operate in the country, along with foreign-based banks. Meanwhile, foreign tourism increased massively from the early 1960s on, and the tourism industry experienced unprecedented expansion. By 1973-74, Portugal received more than 8 million tourists annually for the first time.

   Under Prime Minister Marcello Caetano, other important economic changes occurred. High annual economic growth rates continued until the world energy crisis inflation and a recession hit Portugal in 1973. Caetano's system, through new development plans, modernized aspects of the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors and linked reform in education with plans for social change. It also introduced cadres of forward-looking technocrats at various levels. The general motto of Caetano's version of the Estado Novo was "Evolution with Continuity," but he was unable to solve the key problems, which were more political and social than economic. As the boom period went "bust" in 1973-74, and growth slowed greatly, it became clear that Caetano and his governing circle had no way out of the African wars and could find no easy compromise solution to the need to democratize Portugal's restive society. The economic background of the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was a severe energy shortage caused by the world energy crisis and Arab oil boycott, as well as high general inflation, increasing debts from the African wars, and a weakening currency. While the regime prescribed greater Portuguese investment in Africa, in fact Portuguese businesses were increasingly investing outside of the escudo area in Western Europe and the United States.

   During the two years of political and social turmoil following the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the economy weakened. Production, income, reserves, and annual growth fell drastically during 1974-76. Amidst labor-management conflict, there was a burst of strikes, and income and productivity plummeted. Ironically, one factor that cushioned the economic impact of the revolution was the significant gold reserve supply that the Estado Novo had accumulated, principally during Salazar's years. Another factor was emigration from Portugal and the former colonies in Africa, which to a degree reduced pressures for employment. The sudden infusion of more than 600,000 refugees from Africa did increase the unemployment rate, which in 1975 was 10-15 percent. But, by 1990, the unemployment rate was down to about 5-6 percent.

   After 1985, Portugal's economy experienced high growth rates again, which averaged 4-5 percent through 1992. Substantial economic assistance from the EEC and individual countries such as the United States, as well as the political stability and administrative continuity that derived from majority Social Democratic Party (PSD) governments starting in mid-1987, supported new growth and development in the EEC's second poorest country. With rapid infrastruc-tural change and some unregulated development, Portugal's leaders harbored a justifiable concern that a fragile environment and ecology were under new, unacceptable pressures. Among other improvements in the standard of living since 1974 was an increase in per capita income. By 1991, the average minimum monthly wage was about 40,000 escudos, and per capita income was about $5,000 per annum. By the end of the 20th century, despite continuing poverty at several levels in Portugal, Portugal's economy had made significant progress. In the space of 15 years, Portugal had halved the large gap in living standards between itself and the remainder of the EU. For example, when Portugal joined the EU in 1986, its GDP, in terms of purchasing power-parity, was only 53 percent of the EU average. By 2000, Portugal's GDP had reached 75 percent of the EU average, a considerable achievement. Whether Portugal could narrow this gap even further in a reasonable amount of time remained a sensitive question in Lisbon. Besides structural poverty and the fact that, in 2006, the EU largesse in structural funds (loans and grants) virtually ceased, a major challenge for Portugal's economy will be to reduce the size of the public sector (about 50 percent of GDP is in the central government) to increase productivity, attract outside investment, and diversify the economy. For Portugal's economic planners, the 21st century promises to be challenging.

    See also Empire, Portuguese overseas.

plunge [plʌndʒ]

1. noun

[of bird, diver] plongeon m ; ( = steep fall) chute f

• prices started a downward plunge les prix ont commencé à chuter

• a plunge in the value of the euro une chute de la valeur de l'euro

• to take the plunge sauter le pas

2. transitive verb

• they were plunged into darkness/despair ils ont été plongés dans l'obscurité/le désespoir

3. intransitive verb

plonger ; [sales, prices, profits, temperature] chuter

• he plunged to his death il a fait une chute mortelle

• the car plunged over the cliff la voiture est tombée de la falaise

• he plunged into the crowd il s'est jeté dans la foule

• to plunge into debt/recession sombrer dans les dettes/la récession

• he plunged into the argument il s'est lancé dans la discussion

4. compounds

► plunge pool noun (in sauna) bassin m

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1) ( from height) plongeon m

2) Finance ( of share prices etc) chute f libre

transitive verb plonger ( into dans)

intransitive verb [road, cliff, waterfall] plonger; [bird, plane] piquer; [person] ( dive) plonger; ( fall) tomber ( from de); fig [rate, value] chuter

- plunge in

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1 noun

(peak) haut m, sommet m;

∎ the Stock Market reached a new high la Bourse a atteint un nouveau record ou maximum;

∎ prices are at an all-time high les prix ont atteint un record ou leur maximum;

∎ STOCK EXCHANGE the highs and lows les hauts et les bas

2 adjective

(a) (cost, price, interest rate) élevé(e); (salary) élevé, gros (grosse);

∎ to fetch a high price se vendre cher;

∎ to pay a high price payer le prix fort;

∎ areas of high unemployment des régions f pl à fort taux de chômage

high season haute saison f

(b) (important) haut(e);

∎ to hold a high position être haut placé(e)

high finance haute finance f

(c) British the high street (street) la grand-rue, la rue principale; (shops) les commerçants m pl, le commerce;

∎ the high street has been badly hit by the recession les commerçants ont été durement touchés par la récession

3 adverb

to run high (of prices) être élevé(e);

∎ salaries can go as high as £100,000 les salaires peuvent monter jusqu'à ou atteindre 100 000 livres

case

A n

1 (instance, example) cas m ; in several cases dans plusieurs cas ; a case of mistaken identity un cas d'erreur sur la personne ; on a case by case basis au cas par cas ; in which case, in that case en ce cas, dans ce cas-là ; in such ou these cases dans un cas pareil ; in 7 out of 10 cases 7 fois sur 10, dans 7 cas sur 10 ; a case in point un cas d'espèce, un exemple typique ; it was a case of making a quick decision il s'agissait de prendre une décision rapide ; it's a case of substituting X for Y il s'agit de substituer X à Y ; it's simply a case of waiting il n'y a plus qu'à attendre ;

2 (state of affairs, situation) cas m ; that's not the case here ce n'est pas le cas ici ; such ou this being the case en ce cas, dans ce cas-là ; is it the case that…? est-il vrai que…? ; as ou whatever the case may be selon le(s) cas ; should this be the case ou if this is the case, contact your doctor si c'est le cas, consultez votre médecin ; in no case will customers be refunded en aucun cas les clients ne pourront être remboursés ;

3 ( legal arguments) the case for the Crown GB, the case for the State US l'accusation f ; the case for the defence la défense ; to state the case exposer les faits ; to put the case for the prosecution représenter le ministère public ; to put the case for the defence assurer la défense du prévenu ; the case against Foster les faits qui sont reprochés à Foster ; there is a case to answer il y a assez de preuves ; the case is closed Jur, fig l'affaire or la cause est entendue ; ⇒ rest ;

4 ( convincing argument) arguments mpl ; to put the case for sth trouver des arguments en faveur de qch ; to make a good case for sth donner des arguments convaincants en faveur de qch ; to argue the case for privatization donner des arguments en faveur de la privatisation ; there's a strong case against it il y a beaucoup d'arguments contre cela ; there's a strong case for/against doing il y a de bonnes raisons pour/pour ne pas faire ;

5 ( trial) affaire f, procès m ; criminal/civil case affaire criminelle/civile ; divorce case procès en divorce ; murder case procès pour meurtre ; to win one's case gagner son procès, avoir gain de cause ; to lose/plead a case plaider/perdre une cause ; the case before the court l'affaire en jugement ; his case comes up next week il passe en jugement la semaine prochaine ; to decide a case rendre un jugement ; famous cases causes fpl célèbres ;

6 ( criminal investigation) the Burgess case l'affaire Burgess ; to work ou be on a case enquêter sur une affaire ; a murder/blackmail case une affaire de meurtre/de chantage ; the cases of Sherlock Holmes les enquêtes de Sherlock Holmes ;

7 Med ( instance of disease) cas m ; ( patient) malade mf ; 30 cases of chickenpox 30 cas de varicelle ; he's a psychiatric case c'est un malade mental ;

8 Soc Admin ( client) cas m ; to deal with a lot of difficult cases avoir affaire à des cas difficiles ; a problem case un cas à problème ;

9 ○ ( person) he's a real case! c'est vraiment un cas! ; a hopeless case un cas désespéré ; a hard case un dur ; ⇒ head case ;

10 Ling cas m ; in the accusative case à l'accusatif.

B in any case adv phr (besides, anyway) de toute façon ; ( at any rate) en tout cas ; and in any case, I've no intention of staying et de toute façon, je n'ai pas l'intention de rester ; the effect of the recession, or in any case of high inflation, is that… l'effet de la récession, ou en tout cas de la forte inflation, est que…

C in case conj phr au cas où (+ conditional) ; in case it rains au cas où il pleuvrait ; take the street map just in case prends le plan au cas où ; your report, in case you've forgotten, was due yesterday votre rapport, au cas où vous l'auriez oublié, était pour hier.

D in case of prep phr in case of fire/emergency en cas d'incendie/d'urgence.

get off my case ○ ! fiche-moi la paix ○ !

case

A n

1 ( suitcase) valise f ;

2 (crate, chest) caisse f ; to buy wine by the case acheter du vin par la caisse ;

3 ( display cabinet) vitrine f ; to display sth in a case exposer qch dans une vitrine ;

4 ( protective container) (for spectacles, binoculars, cartridge, weapon) étui m ; ( for jewels) écrin m ; (of camera, watch) boîtier m ; (of piano, clock) caisse f ;

5 Print casse f ; ⇒ lower case, upper case ;

6 ( bookcover) couverture f.

B ○ vtr ( reconnoitre) to case the joint [thief] faire du repérage.

fly [flaɪ]

mouche ⇒ 1 (a) braguette ⇒ 1 (b) voler ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (c) prendre l'avion ⇒ 2 (a) filer ⇒ 2 (b) piloter ⇒ 3 (a)

(pl flies, pt flew [flu:], pp flown [fləʊn])

1 noun

(a) Entomology & Fishing mouche f;

∎ familiar they're dropping like flies (dying, fainting) ils tombent comme des mouches;

∎ familiar this illness is killing them off like flies cette maladie les fait tomber comme des mouches;

∎ familiar the recession is killing companies off like flies la récession fait une véritable hécatombe parmi les entreprises;

∎ figurative the fly in the ointment (person) l'empêcheur(euse) m,f de tourner en rond; (problem) l'os m;

∎ figurative there's a fly in the ointment il y a un os;

∎ familiar there are no flies on him il n'est pas fou;

∎ figurative he wouldn't hurt a fly il ne ferait pas de mal à une mouche;

∎ British familiar I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall j'aimerais bien être une petite souris;

∎ familiar to be catching flies (yawn, have mouth open) gober les mouches;

∎ American familiar to live on the fly vivre à cent à l'heure

(b) (often pl) (on trousers) braguette f;

∎ your flies are or fly is undone or open ta braguette est ouverte

(c) (entrance to tent) rabat m; (flysheet) auvent m

(d) Technology (flywheel) volant m

(e) (in aeroplane)

∎ to go for a fly faire un tour en avion

(f) British familiar (idiom)

∎ to do sth on the fly (craftily, secretively) faire qch en douce

2 intransitive verb

(a) (bird, insect, plane, pilot) voler; (passenger) prendre l'avion; (arrow, bullet, missile) voler, filer;

∎ the first plane to fly faster than the speed of sound le premier avion à dépasser la vitesse du son;

∎ it flies well (plane) il se pilote bien;

∎ I'm flying to Berlin tomorrow (passenger) je prends l'avion pour Berlin demain; (pilot) je vole à Berlin demain;

∎ he flies to Paris about twice a month (passenger) il va à Paris en avion environ deux fois par mois;

∎ we fly to Berlin four days a week (airline) nous avons des vols pour Berlin quatre jours par semaine;

∎ we fly to over a dozen destinations (airline) nous desservons plus d'une douzaine de destinations;

∎ soon we'll be flying over Manchester nous allons bientôt survoler Manchester;

∎ to fly across the Channel traverser la Manche en avion;

∎ to fly via London faire escale à Londres;

∎ those who have flown British in or American with Concorde ceux qui ont voyagé en Concorde, ceux qui ont pris le Concorde;

∎ he flies for an American airline il est pilote dans une compagnie aérienne américaine;

∎ which airline did you fly with? avec quelle compagnie aérienne as-tu voyagé?;

∎ they don't fly from Heathrow any more ils n'ont plus de vols au départ de Heathrow;

∎ the trapeze artist flew through the air le trapéziste a voltigé;

∎ figurative the bird had already flown l'oiseau s'était envolé

(b) (move quickly → person) filer; (→ time) passer à toute vitesse; (flee) s'enfuir; (shoot into air → sparks, dust, cork, shavings) voler;

∎ familiar I really must fly! il faut vraiment que je file ou que je me sauve!;

∎ she flew out of the room elle est sortie de la pièce comme un bolide;

∎ he came flying round the corner il a débouché du coin comme un bolide;

∎ he flew to her rescue il a volé à son secours;

∎ the time seems to have flown! le temps est passé à une vitesse!;

∎ the past two years have just flown les deux dernières années ont passé à toute vitesse ou se sont envolées;

∎ time flies!, doesn't time fly! comme le temps passe!;

∎ the door flew open and there stood… la porte s'est ouverte brusquement sur…;

∎ to fly into a rage or temper s'emporter, sortir de ses gonds;

∎ to knock or to send sb flying envoyer qn rouler à terre;

∎ to knock or to send sth flying envoyer qch voler;

∎ his hat went flying across the room son chapeau a volé ou voltigé à travers la pièce;

∎ the insults were really flying les insultes fusaient de toutes parts

(c) (kite) voler; (flag) être déployé; (in wind → flag, coat) flotter; (→ hair) voler

(d) (idioms)

∎ to let fly (physically) envoyer ou décocher un coup; (verbally) s'emporter;

∎ he let fly with a powerful left hook il a décoché ou envoyé un puissant crochet du gauche;

∎ she then let fly with a string of accusations elle a alors lancé un flot d'accusations;

∎ to (let) fly at sb (physically) sauter ou se jeter sur qn; (verbally) s'en prendre violemment à qn;

∎ to fly in the face of sth (reason, evidence, logic) défier qch;

∎ this flies in the face of our agreement cela contrecarre notre accord

3 transitive verb

(a) (plane, helicopter → of pilot) piloter;

∎ to fly Concorde (pilot) piloter le Concorde; (passenger) prendre le Concorde, voyager en Concorde

(b) (passengers, people, goods) transporter en avion; (route → of pilot, passenger) emprunter; (airline) voyager avec; (distance → of passenger, pilot, plane) parcourir; (combat mission) effectuer;

∎ to fly the Atlantic (pilot, passenger) traverser l'Atlantique en avion; (plane) traverser l'Atlantique;

∎ her employers flew her to the States ses employeurs l'ont envoyée aux États-Unis en avion;

∎ we're flying them home on the first flight nous les rapatrions par le premier vol

(c) (flag → of ship) arborer; (kite) faire voler;

∎ a flag is flown on public buildings when… tous les bâtiments publics arborent un drapeau quand…

(d) (flee from → the country) fuir;

∎ familiar to fly the coop se faire la malle;

∎ to fly the nest (baby bird) quitter le nid; figurative (person) quitter le foyer familial

4 adjective familiar

(a) British old-fashioned (sharp) malin(igne)^□, rusé^□ ;

∎ a fly guy un malin, un rusé

(b) black American slang (excellent) génial, super, géant; (stylish, attractive) chouette

►► fly agaric amanite f tue-mouches;

fly ball (in baseball) chandelle f;

fly cruise forfait m avion et croisière;

Sport fly half (in rugby) demi m d'ouverture;

∎ to play fly half jouer (en) demi d'ouverture;

Sport fly kick (in rugby) coup m de pied à suivre;

Fishing fly rod canne f à mouche;

fly spray bombe f insecticide

➲ fly about, fly around intransitive verb

(bird, insect) voleter, voltiger; (plane, pilot) voler dans les parages, survoler les parages; figurative (rumours) courir;

∎ there are lots of figures flying about or around on entend tellement de chiffres différents

➲ fly away intransitive verb

(bird, insect, plane) s'envoler

➲ fly back

1 intransitive verb

(bird, insect) revenir; (plane) revenir; (passenger) rentrer en avion

2 separable transitive verb

(person, passengers → to an area) emmener en avion; (→ from an area) ramener en avion; (→ to own country) rapatrier en avion

➲ fly by intransitive verb

(a) (time) passer à toute vitesse;

∎ the time has flown by! comme le temps a passé!;

∎ as the days flew by à mesure que les jours s'enfuyaient

(b) (plane) passer

➲ fly in

1 intransitive verb

(a) (person) arriver en avion; (plane) arriver

(b) (bird, insect) entrer

2 separable transitive verb

(troops, reinforcements, food) envoyer en avion; (of pilot → to an area) emmener; (→ from an area) amener

➲ fly off

1 intransitive verb

(a) (bird, insect) s'envoler; (plane) décoller; (person) partir en avion;

∎ when do you fly off to Paris? quand prenez-vous l'avion pour Paris?;

∎ she's always flying off somewhere elle est toujours entre deux avions

(b) (hat, lid) s'envoler; (button) sauter

2 separable transitive verb

(a) (from oil rig, island) évacuer en avion ou hélicoptère

(b) (transport by plane → to an area) emmener en avion; (→ from an area) amener en avion

➲ fly out

1 intransitive verb

(a) (person) partir (en avion), prendre l'avion; (plane) s'envoler;

∎ planes fly out of the airport at a rate of 20 an hour les avions décollent de l'aéroport au rythme de 20 par heure;

∎ which airport did you fly out of? de quel aéroport es-tu parti?;

∎ a medical team flew out to the disaster area une équipe médicale s'est rendue en avion sur la région sinistrée;

∎ I'll fly out to join you next Monday je prendrai l'avion pour te rejoindre lundi prochain;

∎ we flew out but we're going back by boat nous avons fait l'aller en avion mais nous rentrons en bateau

(b) (come out suddenly → from box, pocket) s'échapper;

∎ the knife flew out of his hand le couteau lui a échappé de la main

(c) (bird) sortir en volant

2 separable transitive verb

(person, supplies → to an area) envoyer par avion; (→ from an area) évacuer par avion;

∎ they flew the President out (to a place) ils ont emmené le président en avion; (from a place) ils ont ramené le président en avion