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reduce the budget deficit

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1 reduce the budget deficit

Финансы: сокращать дефицит бюджета (англ. термин взят из статьи в Wall Street Journal)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > reduce the budget deficit
2 reduce the massive budget deficit

Финансы: сокращать масштабный дефицит бюджета (контекстуальный перевод; англ. цитата - из репортажа агентства Thomson Reuters)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > reduce the massive budget deficit
3 deficit

n

дефицит; нехватка, недостаток

to bridge the budget deficit — покрывать дефицит бюджета

to bring the deficit down — уменьшать дефицит (бюджета и т.п.)

to close deficit — покрывать дефицит

to compensate for the deficit — возмещать / компенсировать дефицит

to cope effectively with the deficit — успешно справляться с дефицитом

to cover deficit — покрывать дефицит

to curb the deficit — обуздывать / ограничивать дефицит

to cure the deficit — ликвидировать дефицит (бюджета и т.п.)

to cut the balance-of-payments deficit — сокращать дефицит платежного баланса

to deal effectively with the deficit — успешно справляться с дефицитом

to eliminate the deficit — ликвидировать дефицит (бюджета и т.п.)

to grapple with the trade deficit — пытаться ликвидировать дефицит торгового баланса

to make up for the deficit — возмещать / компенсировать дефицит

to meet overall deficit — восполнять общий дефицит

to narrow the deficit — уменьшать дефицит (бюджета и т.п.)

to offset deficit — покрывать дефицит

to pare balance-of-payments deficit — сокращать дефицит платежного баланса

to reduce / to slash the deficit — сокращать дефицит

to stem budget deficit — задерживать рост дефицита бюджета

to tackle the trade deficit — пытаться ликвидировать дефицит торгового баланса

to whittle away / down the deficit — уменьшать дефицит (бюджета и т.п.)

to wipe out the deficit — ликвидировать дефицит (бюджета и т.п.)

- alarming deficit
- bloated deficit
- budget deficit
- cash deficit
- chronic deficit
- constant deficit
- deficit continues to mount alarmingly
- deficit fell
- deficit has ballooned
- deficit has widened
- deficit in the balance of payments
- deficit is rocketing
- deficit shrank
- deficit stood at $...
- dramatic improvement in the balance-of-payments deficit
- external deficit
- federal budget deficit
- fiscal deficit
- food deficit
- foreign deficit
- foreign-exchange deficit
- foreign-trade deficit
- government deficit
- growth of the budget deficit
- huge deficit
- massive deficit
- negative deficit
- outstanding deficit
- projected deficit
- record deficit
- record-breaking deficit
- reduction of the budget deficit
- trade deficit
- vast deficit

Politics english-russian dictionary > deficit
4 budget

1. сущ.
1)

а) фин., учет бюджет, смета, финансовый план (план доходов и расходов на определенный срок; может иметься в виду соответствующий план государства, региона, компании или отдельного домохозяйства)

ATTRIBUTES:

annual budget — ежегодный бюджет

federal budget — федеральный бюджет

municipal budget — муниципальный бюджет, бюджет муниципального образования

national [state\] budget — государственный бюджет

farm budget — бюджет фермы

COMBS:

a budget data — бюджетные данные, бюджетная информация

a budget committee — бюджетный комитет

an item in [on\] a budget — статья в бюджете

the budget debate; the debate on the budget — обсуждение бюджета

The budget debate [the debate on the budget\] lasted for two days. — Обсуждение бюджета продолжались два дня.

to draw up a budget — составлять бюджет

to submit [present\] a budget — предоставить бюджет на рассмотрение

to pass [approve\] the budget — принять [одобрить, утвердить\] бюджет

to put the budget in the red — создать бюджетный дефицит

to put the budget in the black — ликвидировать бюджетный дефицит

The council could refuse to set a legal budget which would result in its being unable to borrow money and pay its employees. — Совет может отказаться от составления официального бюджета, в результате чего не сможет брать кредиты и оплачивать труд своих служащих.

See:

consumer budget 1), actual budget, administrative budget, adopted budget, advertising and promotion budget, advertising budget, alternative budget, annual budget, appropriated budget, bottom-up budget, balanced budget, bottom-up budgeting, baseline budget, capital budget, cash budget, civilian budget, Common Budget, complete budget, congressional budget, continuous budget, consolidated budget, consolidated cash budget, construction budget 1), cost of goods manufactured budget, cost of goods sold budget, current budget, defense budget, deficit budget, departmental budget, direct labour budget, direct materials budget, draft budget, executive budget, family budget, federal budget 1), financial budget, fixed assets budget, fixed budget, flexed budget, flexible budget, forecast budget, full-employment budget, functional budget, high-employment budget, household budget, incremental budget, labour budget, lame-duck budget, life-cycle budget, line-item budget, local budget, long-range budget, manufacturing overhead budget, marketing budget, master budget, materials budget, merchandise budget, military budget, national income accounts budget, non-appropriated budget, operating budget, original budget, overhead budget, partial budget, participative budget, performance budget, planned budget, president's budget, production budget, profit budget, pro forma budget, programme budget, promotion budget 1) а), project budget 1) а), proposed budget, publicity budget, purchasing budget, regulatory budget, revised budget, sales cost budget, selling and administrative expense budget, short-range budget, state budget, stock budget, supporting budget, surplus budget, tax expenditure budget, top-down budget, training budget 1) а), travel budget 1) а), Treasury Budget, unbalanced budget, unified budget, zero-based budget, budget analyst, budget balance, budget deficit, budget director, budget surplus, budget accountant, budget allocation, budget analysis, budget analyst, budget assumption, budget authority, budget balance, budget bill, Budget Bureau, budget category, budget classification, budget day, budget deficit, budget director, budget engineer, budget estimates, budget examiner, budget expenditures, budget line, budget message, budget officer, budget planning, budget price, budget process, budget programming, budget proposal, budget receipts, budget report, budget resolution, budget revenues, budget statement, budget variance, budget year, balance the budget, Congressional Budget Office, Financial Statement and Budget Report, off-budget, Office of Management and Budget, on-budget, budgeting, backdoor financing, highlights

б) фин., учет бюджет (план хозяйственный деятельности, выраженный не в денежных, а в натуральных единицах; напр., план производства, в котором данные о количестве использованных материалов, запасов незавершенного производства на конец и начало планируемого периода и количестве готовой продукции приводятся в физических (натуральных) единицах измерения: штуках, килограммах и т. п.)

See:

production budget, labour budget, materials budget, stock budget, quantitative budget, purchasing budget, budget accountant

2) фин., учет бюджет (сумма, выделенная на реализацию какой-л. программы, осуществление проекта или покрытие каких-л. целевых расходов)

ATTRIBUTES:

tight budget — напряженный [ограниченный, стесненный\] бюджет

to exceed [stretch\] a budget — выходить за пределы бюджета

to cut [reduce\] a budget — урезать [сократить\] бюджет

See:

advertising budget, construction budget 2), consumer budget 2), administrative budget, budget level, advertising and promotion budget, federal budget 1), training budget 1) б), travel budget 1) б), total budget, publicity budget, promotion budget 1) б), project budget 1) б) budget constraint

3) фин., учет бюджет, бюджетный фонд* (единый пул средств, образуемый в течение данного периода и предназначенный для покрытия ряда расходов)

To get reimbursed from our budget for purchases, you must fill out a voucher form. — Чтобы получить возмещение стоимости покупки из нашего закупочного фонда, вы должны заполнить подтверждающий документ.

4) эк. прир. баланс (схема движения какого-л. ресурса и оценка его запаса на начало и конец периода)

energy budget — энергетический баланс (количественное описание энергообмена в физической или экологической системе)

See:

water budget

5) общ. запас, большое количество.

budget of news — куча новостей

budget of time — достаточное количество времени

If you don't dedicate an adequate budget of time and money to marketing, it's unlikely you'll attract enough customers to sustain and grow your venture. — Маловероятно, что вам удастся привлечь достаточное количество клиентов, чтобы поддерживать и развивать свое предприятие, если вы не выделите на маркетинг достаточное количество времени и денег.
2. гл.
фин., учет намечать, планировать, составлять бюджет [смету\], бюджетировать; предусматривать [выделять\] в бюджете, ассигновать по бюджету (выделять в бюджете сумму на какую-л. цель)

to budget expenditures — составлять бюджет [смету\] расходов

The council is budgeting for a 25% increase in expenditure on roads. — Совет планирует двадцатипятипроцентное увеличение расходов на дороги.

How will I know how much to budget for my entire cruise vacation? — Как я узнаю, какие средства нужно выделить на весь круиз?

The university had to budget for an increase in the number of students. — Университету пришлось предусмотреть в бюджете средства на увеличение числа студентов.

See:

budgeted deficit, budgeted balance sheet, budgeted balance sheet
3. прил.
1) эк. дешевый, недорогой; экономичный

budget flights — экономичные рейсы

budget price — низкая [невысокая\] цена

Syn:

low-cost

See:

budget price 1)

2) общ. малобюджетный, имеющий ограниченный бюджет, с ограниченными средствами

budget shopper — покупатель с ограниченными средствами

low-budget movies — малобюджетные фильмы

See:

budget shopper, discount store

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бюджет: 1) детальный план (предполагаемые размеры) расходов и доходов правительства на новый финансовый год; 2) прогноз финансового положения предприятия (компании) в течение определенного периода; расчет материальных затрат и потребностей; обычно расчет идет от бюджета производства и материальных затрат к наличному бюджету и далее - к расчетному балансу компании и счету прибылей; 3) смета расходов и доходов по проекту, мероприятию; см. balanced budget;
capital budget;

cash budget;
4) экономичный, на основе продуманного бюджета, дешевый (напр., бюджетный отдых (budget holiday)).
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• /vt/ ассигновать

• бюджет

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бюджет; смета; финансовая смета; планируемые расходы; план по расходам; план по расходам и доходам
. Детальная смета финансовой деятельности, например, рекламный бюджет (смета расходов на рекламу), план сбыта, бюджет капиталовложений (смета инвестиций в основной капитал) . ассигновать; предусматривать в бюджете Словарь экономических терминов .
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Финансы/Кредит/Валюта

бюджет

план расходов и доходов правительства на новый финансовый год

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Контракты

бюджет

роспись денежных доходов и расходов государства, предприятия на определенный период, утвержденный в законодательном порядке см. bdgt

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Бухгалтерия и аудит

бюджет

количественное выражение плана, помощь для его координации и воплощения

Англо-русский экономический словарь > budget
5 deficit

n

дефицит

- annual deficit
- balance of payments deficit
- balance of trade deficit
- budget deficit
- budgetary deficit
- capital deficit
- cash deficit
- chronic deficit
- constant deficit
- currency deficit
- current deficit
- current account deficit
- current assets deficit
- dollar deficit
- excessive deficit
- exchange deficit
- external deficit
- federal budget deficit
- financial deficit
- fiscal deficit
- foreign exchange deficit
- foreign trade deficit
- government deficit
- huge deficit
- investment deficit
- minor deficit
- monetary deficit
- operational deficit
- outstanding deficit
- overall deficit
- payments deficit
- persistent deficit
- public sector deficit
- short-term deficit
- total deficit
- trade deficit
- virtual deficit
- deficit in foreign exchange
- deficit of the balance of payments
- deficit of the balance of trade
- deficit of goods
- deficit in foreign exchange
- balance a deficit
- cause a deficit
- compensate for a deficit
- correct a deficit
- cover a deficit
- curb a fiscal deficit
- incur a deficit
- make good a deficit
- make up a deficit
- meet a deficit
- narrow a trade deficit
- offset a deficit
- operate at a deficit
- reduce a deficit
- rein in a budget deficit
- run a deficit
- settle a deficit
- show a deficit
- swing into deficit

English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > deficit
6 deficit

n

дефицит; нехватка

- deficit in the balance of payments

- control of budgetary deficits

- offset the deficit

- trade balance remains in deficit

- deficit of balance of trade

- government deficit

- outstanding deficit

- chronic trade deficits

- reduce budget deficits

- balance-of-trade deficit

- trade deficit

- budget deficit

- stem budget deficit

- international deficit

- massive deficit

- deficit of current accounts

- constant deficit

- external deficit

- government deficit spending

- foreign deficit

- merchandise deficit

- reduction in the trade deficit

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > deficit
7 budget

(bdgt)

n фін., бухг. бюджет; кошторис; план координації ресурсів; a бюджетний; кошторисний

план майбутнього фінансування діяльності підприємства, організації, установи і т. ін., в якому передбачаються їхні доходи (income¹) і видатки (expenditure²) на певний період часу; ♦ бувають різні види бюджетів: касовий (cash budget:: cash-flow budget:: cash-flow forecast), в якому відтворюються надходження та витрати готівкою; фінансовий (financial budget), в якому відтворюються капітальні витрати (capital expenditure) та готівкові надходження і витрати, що спільно з бюджетом поточних витрат (operational budget) становлять загальний фінансовий бюджет (master budget:: comprehensive budget), і т. ін.

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ad budget бюджет реклами • кошторис витрат на рекламу; administrative budget адміністративний фінансовий кошторис; advertising budget рекламний бюджет • кошторис асигнування на рекламу • кошторис витрат на рекламу; advertising and promotion budget кошторис витрат на рекламу і просування; annual budget річний бюджет; approved budget схвалений бюджет; average budget середній бюджет; balanced budget збалансований бюджет; capital budget; capital assets budget бюджет капіталовкладень • бюджет основного капіталу • кошторис основних грошових засобів; capital expenditure budget; cash budget; cash flow budget; complete budget загальний фінансовий кошторис • загальний сукупний фінансовий бюджет; comprehensive budget; consolidated budget консолідований бюджет • зведений бюджет; consumer budget споживацький бюджет; continuous budget; current budget поточні статті доходів і видатків бюджету; defense budget асигнування на оборону • державні витрати на військові потреби; deficit-free budget бездефіцитний бюджет; department budget бюджет департаменту • бюджет відділу • фінансовий кошторис міністерства • фінансовий кошторис установи • цеховий кошторис • цеховий фінансовий план; direct labour budget кошторис прямих витрат на оплату робочої сили • кошторис прямих витрат на оплату праці; direct materials budget кошторис прямих витрат на основні матеріали; double budget подвійний бюджет; draft budget проект бюджету; expense budget кошторис витрат; extraordinary budget незвичайний бюджет; factory overhead budget кошторис загальнофабричних накладних витрат; family budget родинний бюджет • сімейний бюджет; federal budget федеральний бюджет; financial budget; fixed budget твердий кошторис; fixed assets budget бюджет капіталовкладень • бюджет основного капіталу • кошторис основних грошових засобів; flexible budget гнучка виробнича програма-кошторис • гнучкий кошторис • гнучкий план; forecast budget кошторисні пропозиції • перспективний кошторис; government budget державний бюджет; household budget бюджет домогосподарства; labour budget кошторис по праці; local budget місцевий бюджет; long-range budget довгостроковий план; manpower budget перспективний план підготовки і використання робочої сили; manufacturing overhead budget кошторис фабрично-заводських накладних витрат • кошторис цехових накладних витрат; marketing budget бюджет маркетингу • кошторис витрат на маркетинг; master budget; materials budget кошторис витрат на придбання матеріалів; mini budget міні-бюджет; multiple budget багатоступеневий план • перспективний ковзний бюджет; municipal budget муніципальний бюджет; national budget державний бюджет; national advertising budget кошторис на загальнонаціональну рекламу • загальнонаціональні витрати на рекламу; national income accounts budget бюджет, обрахований за статистикою національного доходу; nation's economic budget економічний бюджет країни; operating budget; ordinary budget звичайний бюджет; overhead budget кошторис накладних витрат • кошторис накладних видатків • фінансовий план накладних витрат; partial budget частковий фінансовий кошторис; performance budget функціональний кошторис • функціональний фінансовий кошторис; perpetual budget; physical budget кошторис, упорядкований за стандартом • кошторис в натуральних одиницях • кошторис в натуральному обрахуванні; production budget виробничий план; program budget кошторис витрат цільового призначення • кошторис фінансування програми • кошторис цільової програми; project budget кошторис витрат на проект; promotion budget кошторис витрат на стимулювання попиту • сума асигнувань на стимулювання попиту; proposed budget пропонований бюджет; publicity budget кошторис представницьких витрат • кошторис витрат на популяризацію; purchase budget кошторис витрат на закупівлю • кошторис витрат на придбання; regulatory budget бюджет діяльності федерального уряду на регулювання економіки; research budget кошторис асигнувань на дослідження; rolling forward budget; sales budget програма збуту • план збуту • бюджет на збут; sales promotion budget кошторис витрат на стимулювання збуту; single-service budget бюджет, який передбачає один вид асигнувань; sliding-scale budget гнучка програма-кошторис • гнучка виробнича програма-кошторис • гнучкий кошторис • гнучкий план; state budget державний бюджет • бюджет штату • бюджет регіону; static budget твердий план • фіксований кошторис; step budget багатоступеневий державний бюджет; supplementary budget додатковий бюджет; supporting budget допоміжний кошторис; surplus budget бюджет, в якому доходи перевищують видатки; tight budget напружений бюджет; total budget загальний бюджет • генеральний бюджет; training budget кошторис на навчання; transitional budget перехідний бюджет; travel budget кошторис на відрядження; unbalanced budget незбалансований бюджет; unified budget уніфікований бюджет; variable budget гнучкий кошторис • гнучкий план; voted budget затверджений бюджет; zero base budget бюджет на нульовій основі

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budget account бюджетний рахунок • рахунок споживацького кредиту • родинний рахунок; budget assumption бюджетна передумова; budget ceiling максимальний розмір бюджету; budget constraint бюджетне обмеження • обмеження на величину капіталовкладень; budget contribution відрахування в бюджет; budget control кошторисна методика контролю; budget controller бюджетний контролер; budget costs бюджетні витрати; budget cutback зменшення бюджету; budget deficit дефіцит бюджету • перевищення урядових видатків над доходами • бюджетний дефіцит; budget department бюджетний відділ; budget division бюджетний відділ; budget estimate оцінка бюджету • підрахунок бюджету; budget estimates бюджетні припущення; budget evaluation обрахування бюджету; budget line рядок бюджету • курс бюджету; budget management контроль і регулювання бюджету; budget manager керівник бюджетного відділу; budget of expenditure кошторис витрат; budget of profit and loss кошторис прибутків і збитків; budget of volume and expenditure виробнича програма і кошторис витрат • план виробництва і витрат; budget on accruals basis бюджет на основі нагромаджень; budget proposal бюджетна пропозиція; budget restraint межа споживчого бюджету; budget set множина можливостей споживача; budget simulation моделювання бюджету; budget statement проект бюджету; budget surplus бюджетний надлишок • перевищення доходів над витратами • актив бюджету; to approve the budget затверджувати/затвердити бюджет • ухвалювати/ухвалити бюджет; to balance the budget збалансувати бюджет • ліквідувати дефіцит бюджету; to bring in the budget подавати/подати бюджет • подавати/подати на розгляд проект бюджету; to cut the budget зменшувати/зменшити бюджет; to decrease the budget зменшувати/зменшити бюджет; to do a budget готувати/підготувати бюджет; to draw up the budget укладати/укласти бюджет • готувати/підготувати бюджет; to increase the budget збільшувати/збільшити бюджет; to pass the budget затверджувати/затвердити бюджет; to plan a budget укладати/укласти план бюджету; to prepare the budget готувати/підготувати бюджет; to present the budget подавати/подати проект бюджету на розгляд; to reduce a budget зменшувати/зменшити бюджет; to set a budget визначати/визначити розмір бюджету; to submit the budget представляти/представити бюджет • подавати/подати на розгляд проект бюджету

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бюджет < фр. budget < англ. budget — мішок скарбника < лат. bulga — шкіряний мішок; у середньовічній Англії скарбник зі шкіряним мішком, наповненим грішми, ставав перед парламентом і виголошував фінансову промову (ЕС-СУМ 1: 191; ЕСУМ 1: 315); кошторис < польс. kosztorys, koszt — витрати, вартість, кошт і rys — риса, нарис (ЕСУМ 3:69)

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1.
бюджет; кошторис; фінансовий кошторис; план щодо витрат; плановані витрати; план щодо витрат і доходів; кошторис витрат і доходів
2. v.
асигнувати; передбачати у бюджеті; виділяти кошти ( на що-небудь); розробляти кошторис; виділяти фонди під статтю витрат

The English-Ukrainian Dictionary > budget
8 budget

1. n
бюджет

to approve a budget on its final reading — принимать бюджет в последнем чтении

to approve the budget — одобрять / утверждать бюджет

to balance the budget — ликвидировать дефицит бюджета

to block the budget — блокировать принятие бюджета

to bring the budget into balance — сбалансировать бюджет

to build up the budget — разрабатывать / составлять бюджет / смету

to cut the budget — сокращать бюджетные ассигнования

to get the budget through Congress — проводить бюджет через Конгресс

to pass the budget — утверждать бюджет

to present the budget — представлять бюджет на рассмотрение

to put the budget in the black — ликвидировать бюджетный дефицит

to put the budget in the red — создавать бюджетный дефицит

to put together the budget — составлять бюджет

to reduce the military budget — сокращать военный бюджет

to reform a budget — реформировать бюджет

to restrain the budget — ограничивать бюджет

to scale back the budget — сокращать бюджет

to set up a budget — составлять бюджет

to slash 2 billion dollars from the budget — урезать бюджет на 2 млрд. долларов

to slow the growth of the administrative budget — замедлять рост управленческих расходов

to submit the draft budget for consideration — представлять проект бюджета на рассмотрение

to trim the budget — уменьшать дефицит бюджета

to unveil a budget — обнародовать бюджет

- administrative budget
- austerity budget
- balanced budget
- biennial program budget
- bulged budget
- cautious budget
- contributions to the UN budget
- declining military budget
- defense budget
- deficit-ridden budget
- draft budget
- draft of the budget for...
- emergency budget
- extraordinary defense budget
- federal budget
- financing of the budget
- health budget
- make-up of the budget
- massive budget
- military budget
- national budget
- Programme Budget
- reduction of the budget
- regular budget
- shoe-string budget
- state budget
- the budget faces a rough ride
- tight budget
- top-hat budget
- voted budget
- war budget 2. v
включать что-л. в бюджет, предусматривать что-л. в бюджете, ассигновать

Politics english-russian dictionary > budget
9 budget

1. n

1) (государственный) бюджет; финансовая смета

- performance of the budget

- execution of the budget

- financing of the budget

- make-up of the budget

- approve the budget

- duration of the budget cycle

- balance the budget

- build up the budget

- pass the budget

- present the budget

- push the budget over its prescribed limits

- put the budget in the black

- put the budget in the red

2) план координации (ресурсов)

3) запас, уровень

•

- budget surplus

- bulged military budget

- budget restriction

- defence budget

- cut in military budget

- cut military budget

- emergency budget

- federal budget

- budget preparations

- top-hat budget

- reduce military budget

- budget revenue

- bloat military budgets

- military budget

- get the defence budget through Congress

- budget receipts and outlays

- tight budget

- deficit-ridden budget

- austerity budget

- national budget

- restrain defence budget

- budget year

- balanced budget

- extraordinary defence budgets

- massive military budget

2. v

предусматривать в бюджете, ассигновать

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > budget
10 сокращать дефицит бюджета

Finances: reduce the budget deficit (англ. термин взят из статьи в Wall Street Journal)

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > сокращать дефицит бюджета
11 дефицит

deficit; (недостаток) deficiency, gap; (нехватка) shortage

иметь дефицит — to run a deficit

покрывать дефицит — to offset the deficit

бюджетный дефицит, дефицит бюджета — budget deficit

рост бюджетного дефицита — growth of the budget / budgetary deficit

дефицит федерального бюджета — federal budget deficit

контроль над дефицитом бюджета — control of budgetary deficit

валютный дефицит — exchange shortage / deficit

долларовый дефицит, дефицит долларового баланса — dollar gap

непокрытый дефицит — outstanding deficit

огромный дефицит — massive deficit

острый дефицит — acute shortage

постоянный / хронический дефицит — constant / chronic deficit

испытывать хронический финансовый дефицит — to have a chronic / persistent financial deficit

продовольственный дефицит — food shortage

ликвидация продовольственного дефицита — elimination of food shortage

рекордный дефицит — record deficit

дефицит внешней торговли — foreign trade deficit

дефицит государственного бюджета — government deficit

дефицит платёжного баланса — balance of payments deficit

сократить дефицит платёжного баланса — to reduce / to cut balance of payments deficit

дефицит товаров — commodity deficiency

Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > дефицит
12 Haushaltsdefizit

Haushaltsdefizit n 1. FIN, GEN, POL budget deficit, budgetary deficit; 2. RW fiscal deficit; 3. WIWI budget deficit, budgetary deficit
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n 1. <Finanz, Geschäft, Pol> budget deficit, budgetary deficit; 2. < Rechnung> fiscal deficit; 3. <Vw> budget deficit, budgetary deficit

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Haushaltsdefizit
budget[ary] deficit, deficit in the budget, fiscal deficit, adverse budget;
• aus der Vollbeschäftigungspolitik entstandene Haushaltsdefizite full employment budget deficits;
• Haushaltsdefizit ausgleichen to balance an adverse budget;
• Haushaltsdefizit herbeiführen to put the budget in the red (US coll.);
• sich ein großes Haushaltsdefizit leisten to run a large budget deficit;
• öffentliche Haushaltsdefizite verringern to reduce government deficits.

Business german-english dictionary > Haushaltsdefizit
13 reducir

v.

1 to reduce.

reduzca la velocidad reduce speed now (en letrero)

nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut

reducir algo a algo to reduce something to something

reducir algo al absurdo to make a nonsense of something

Ella redujo la velocidad She reduced the speed.

2 to suppress, to subdue (someter) (país, ciudad).

3 to convert (Mat) (convertir).

4 to set (medicine).

5 to shorten, to shrink.

Ellos redujeron las tablas They shortened the boards.

6 to cut down, to depress, to de-escalate, to deescalate.

Ellos redujeron los gastos They cut down expenses.

7 to conquer, to subdue, to subjugate.

Ellos redujeron a los nativos They conquered the natives.

8 to hydrogenate.

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reducir

Conjugation model [ CONDUCIR], like link=conducir conducir

► verbo transitivo

1 (gen) to reduce

■ reducir a cenizas to reduce to ashes

2 (disminuir) to reduce, cut, cut down on

■ reducir gastos to cut down on expenses

3 (vencer) to subdue

4 MEDICINA to set

5 (una salsa, etc) to reduce, boil down

► verbo intransitivo

1 AUTOMÓVIL to change down, change to a lower gear

► verbo pronominal reducirse

1 (gen) to be reduced; (decrecer) to decrease

2 (resultar) to come down (a, to)

■ todo se redujo a una equivocación it all came down to a mistake

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verb

1) to reduce, cut

2) decrease

3) subdue

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1. VT

1) (=disminuir)

a) [en cantidad] [+ gastos, inflación, precio] to reduce, bring down, cut; [+ tensión, ansiedad] to reduce; [+ riesgo] to reduce, lessen

medidas encaminadas a reducir el número de parados — measures designed to reduce o bring down o cut the number of unemployed

han reducido las listas de espera en los hospitales — they have reduced o cut hospital waiting lists

el autobús redujo su velocidad — the bus reduced speed, the bus slowed down

conviene reducir el consumo de grasas — it is advisable to cut down on fatty foods

el banco redujo su beneficio un 12% — the bank saw its profits fall by 12%

un tratamiento para reducir la celulitis — a treatment to reduce cellulite

• reducir algo en algo — to reduce sth by sth, cut sth by sth

tenemos que reducir la producción en un 20% — we have to reduce o cut production by 20%

• reducir a la mínima expresión — to reduce to the bare minimum

• reducir algo al mínimo — to reduce o cut sth to the minimum

• reducir algo a la mitad — to cut sth by half

b) [en tiempo] [+ jornada laboral] to reduce, shorten; [+ sentencia] to reduce

han reducido la mili a nueve meses — they have reduced o cut military service to nine months

sus abogados consiguieron reducir la sentencia a dos meses — his lawyers managed to get his sentence reduced to two months

c) [en tamaño] [+ copia] to reduce; [+ discurso, artículo] to cut down, shorten

2)

• reducir algo a algo —

a) (=limitar) to limit sth to sth; (=simplificar) to reduce sth to sth

redujo su intervención a criticar al gobierno — her participation was limited to criticizing the government

todo lo reduce a cosas materiales — he reduces everything to material terms

b) (=convertir) [+ cantidad, medida] to convert sth into sth; [+ fracción, ecuación] to reduce sth into sth

reducir un kilómetro a metros — to convert a kilometre into metres

el techo fue reducido a cenizas por el fuego — the roof was reduced to ashes by the fire

- reducir algo al absurdo

3) (=someter) [+ ladrón, fugitivo, loco] to overpower; [+ alborotadores] to subdue; [+ fortaleza] to subdue, reduce frm

entre los tres lograron reducir al atracador — the three of them managed to overpower the robber

• reducir a algn a la obediencia — to bring sb to heel

• reducir a algn al silencio — [por la fuerza, por miedo] to silence sb; [por vergüenza, humillación] to reduce sb to silence

4) (Med) [+ hueso, hernia] to set, reduce frm

5) (Quím) to reduce

6) LAm [en el mercado negro] to get rid of *

2.

VI (Aut) to change down

reduce a segunda — change down to second gear

3.

See:

reducirse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

reducir al mínimo los riesgos — to minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

debería reducir el consumo de sal — you should cut down on salt

le redujeron la pena — they shortened o reduced his sentence

reducir algo A algo — to reduce something to something

la población quedó reducida a la mitad — the population was halved

reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

reducir algo EN algo — to reduce something by something

reducir el gasto en cinco millones — to reduce costs by five million

b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce

2)

a) ( transformar)

reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

b) (Quím) to reduce

c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)

3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower

reducir a un pueblo a la esclavitud — to reduce a people to slavery

4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
2.
reducir vi

1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down

2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
3.
reducirse v pron

reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

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= abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.

Nota: Generalmente aplicado a los precios.

Ex. Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.

Ex. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.

Ex. In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.

Ex. The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.

Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.

Ex. Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.

Ex. Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.

Ex. More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.

Ex. The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.

Ex. If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.

Ex. Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.

Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.

Ex. But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.

Ex. 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.

Ex. Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.

Ex. This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.

Ex. Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.

Ex. He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.

Ex. Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.

Ex. In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.

Ex. By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.

Ex. However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.

Ex. The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.

Ex. However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.

Ex. Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.

Ex. The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.

Ex. Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.

Ex. May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.

Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.

Ex. The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.

Ex. You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.

Ex. The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.

Ex. They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.

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* que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.

* reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.

* reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.

* reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.

* reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.

* reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.

* reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].

* reducir costes = reduce + costs.

* reducir de plantilla = downsize.

* reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.

* reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.

* reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.

* reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.

* reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.

* reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.

* reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.

* reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.

* reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.

* reducir el valor = reduce + value.

* reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.

* reducir gradualmente = scale down.

* reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.

* reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.

* reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.

* reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.

* reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.

* reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.

* reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.

* reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.

* reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.

* reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.

* reducir progresivamente = phase out.

* reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.

* reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.

* reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).

* reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.

* reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.

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1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

reducir al mínimo los riesgos — to minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

debería reducir el consumo de sal — you should cut down on salt

le redujeron la pena — they shortened o reduced his sentence

reducir algo A algo — to reduce something to something

la población quedó reducida a la mitad — the population was halved

reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

reducir algo EN algo — to reduce something by something

reducir el gasto en cinco millones — to reduce costs by five million

b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce

2)

a) ( transformar)

reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

b) (Quím) to reduce

c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)

3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower

reducir a un pueblo a la esclavitud — to reduce a people to slavery

4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
2.
reducir vi

1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down

2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
3.
reducirse v pron

reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

* * *

= abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.

Nota: Generalmente aplicado a los precios.

Ex: Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.

Ex: A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.

Ex: In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.

Ex: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.

Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.

Ex: Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.

Ex: Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.

Ex: More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.

Ex: The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.

Ex: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.

Ex: Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.

Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.

Ex: But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.

Ex: 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.

Ex: Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.

Ex: This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.

Ex: Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.

Ex: He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.

Ex: Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.

Ex: In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.

Ex: By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.

Ex: However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.

Ex: The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.

Ex: However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.

Ex: Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.

Ex: The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.

Ex: Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.

Ex: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.

Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.

Ex: The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.

Ex: You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.

Ex: The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.

Ex: They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.

* que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.

* reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.

* reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.

* reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.

* reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.

* reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.

* reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].

* reducir costes = reduce + costs.

* reducir de plantilla = downsize.

* reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.

* reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.

* reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.

* reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.

* reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.

* reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.

* reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.

* reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.

* reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.

* reducir el valor = reduce + value.

* reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.

* reducir gradualmente = scale down.

* reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.

* reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.

* reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.

* reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.

* reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.

* reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.

* reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.

* reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.

* reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.

* reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.

* reducir progresivamente = phase out.

* reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.

* reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.

* reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).

* reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.

* reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.

* * *

reducir [I6 ]

vt

A

1 ‹gastos/costos› to cut, cut down on, reduce; ‹velocidad› to reduce; ‹producción/consumo› to reduce

hemos reducido el número de casos we have brought down o reduced the number of cases

redujeron el número de plazas they cut the number of places o the number of places was reduced

han prometido reducir los impuestos they have promised to cut o reduce taxes

con esto se intenta reducir al mínimo el riesgo de infección this is intended to minimize o to reduce to a minimum the risk of infection

ejercicios para reducir (la) cintura exercises to reduce your waistline

reducir algo A algo to reduce sth TO sth

han reducido el texto a 50 páginas they have shortened o reduced the text to fifty pages

le han reducido la pena a dos años they have commuted o shortened o reduced his sentence to two years

la población quedó reducida a la mitad the population was reduced to half of its former size

reducir algo a su mínima expresión ( Mat) to reduce sth to its simplest expression o form

el suéter quedó reducido a su mínima expresión ( hum); the sweater shrank to nothing

reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth BY sth

pretenden reducir el gasto en cinco millones they aim to reduce costs by five million

2 ‹fotocopia/fotografía› to reduce

B

1 (transformar) reducir algo A algo:

reducir los gramos a miligramos to convert the grams to milligrams

reducir quebrados a un mínimo común denominador to reduce fractions to their lowest common denominator

quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes

todas sus ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada all his dreams were shattered

2 ( Quím) to reduce

3 ( AmS) ‹objeto robado› to receive, fence ( colloq)

C (dominar, someter) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue; ‹ladrón› to overpower

reducir a un pueblo a la esclavitud to reduce a people to slavery

D ‹fractura/hernia› to set, reduce ( tech)

E (CS) ‹cadáver/restos mortales› to exhume ( for reburial in a niche or smaller coffin)

■ reducir

vi

A ( Coc) to reduce, boil down

dejar reducir la salsa leave the sauce to boil down o reduce

B ( Auto) to shift into a lower gear, change down ( BrE)

■ reducirse

v pron

reducirse A algo:

todo se reduce a saber interpretar las cifras it all comes down to knowing how to interpret the figures

todo se redujo a una visita a la catedral y un paseo por el río in the end it was just a visit to the cathedral and a walk along the river

* * *

reducir ( conjugate reducir) verbo transitivo
1
a) ‹gastos/costos› to cut, reduce;

‹velocidad/producción/consumo› to reduce;
◊ debería reducir el consumo de sal you should cut down on salt;

reducir algo A algo to reduce sth to sth;
reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth by sth
b) ‹fotocopia/fotografía› to reduce

2
a) ( transformar):

◊ reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams;

quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes
b) (AmS) ‹ objeto robado› to receive, fence (colloq)

3 ( dominar) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue;
‹ ladrón› to overpower
reducirse verbo pronominal:
◊ todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful

reducir
I verbo transitivo
1 (disminuir) to reduce
reducir algo en algo, to reduce sthg by sthg
(gastos, consumo, etc) to cut (down), minimize
2 (convertir, transformar) to reduce: el incendio redujo el bosque a cenizas, the fire reduced the wood to ashes
3 (subyugar) to subdue
II vi Auto to change down, US to downshift

' reducir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bajar
- ceniza
- encaminada
- encaminado
- moler
- disminuir
- minimizar
- mínimo
- mira
English:
administrative
- austerity
- ax
- axe
- change down
- corner
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- decrease
- deficit
- deplenish
- deplete
- depress
- downsize
- effective
- halve
- lighten
- lower
- narrow down
- prune
- pulp
- rate
- receive
- reduce
- retrench
- scale down
- shorten
- slow
- wind down
- bring
- cost
- deaden
- decelerate
- diminish
- discount
- get
- lessen
- loss
- minimize
- over
- pare
- scale
- slacken
- traffic
- whittle
- wind

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reducir

♦ vt

1. [disminuir] to reduce;
[gastos, costes, impuestos, plantilla] to cut; [producción] to cut (back on);
nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut;

reduzca la velocidad [en letrero] reduce speed now;

reducir algo a algo to reduce sth to sth;

el edificio quedó reducido a escombros the building was reduced to a pile of rubble;

reducir algo al mínimo to reduce sth to a minimum;

reducir algo a o [m5] en la mitad to reduce sth by half;

tú todo lo reduces a tener dinero the only thing you care about is money;

reducir a la mínima expresión to cut down to the bare minimum

2. [fotocopia] to reduce

3. [someter] [país, ciudad] to suppress, to subdue;
[atracador, ladrón, sublevados] to overpower
4. Mat [unidades de medida] to convert (a to); [fracciones, ecuaciones] to cancel out

5. Med [hueso] to set

6. Quím to reduce

7. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce

8. Andes, RP [objetos robados] to receive, to fence

9. RP [cadáver] to exhume [for reburial in smaller container]

♦ vi

1. [en el automóvil]
reducir (de marcha o [m5] velocidad) to change down;

reduce a tercera change down into third (gear)

2. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce

♦ See also the pronominal verb reducirse

* * *

reducir

v/t

1 reduce (a to); gastos cut;

reducir personal cut jobs, reduce staff numbers;

reducir la marcha AUTO downshift, shift into a lower gear

2 MIL overcome

* * *

reducir {61} vt

1) disminuir: to reduce, to decrease, to cut

2) : to subdue

3) : to boil down

♦ See also the reflexive verb reducirse

* * *

reducir vb to reduce

reducir la velocidad to reduce speed

Spanish-English dictionary > reducir
14 бюджет

эк.

budget

выйти из бюджета — to exceed (one's) budget

ликвидировать дефицит бюджета — to balance the budget

одобрить бюджет — to approve the budget

превысить бюджет — to overshoot a budget

представлять бюджет на рассмотрение — to present the budget

предусматривать в бюджете — to budget

резко сократить бюджет — to slash the budget

сводить бюджет с дефицитом — to run a budget deficit

составлять бюджет — to make a budget

увеличить бюджет сверх установленных пределов — to push the budget over its prescribed limits

утверждать бюджет — to approve / to pass a budget

военный бюджет — military / defence budget

наращивать военный бюджет — to increase military budget

ограничить военный бюджет — to restrain defence budget

раздувать военные бюджеты — to bloat military budgets

сократить военный бюджет — to cut / to reduce military budget

огромный / разбухший военный бюджет — massive / bulged military budget

сокращение военного бюджета — cut in / reduction of military budget

пропорциональное и соразмерное сокращение военных бюджетов — balanced and commensurate reduction of military budgets

государственный бюджет — national / state budget

государственный бюджет и бюджеты отдельных штатов (США) — Federal and State budgets

закон о вступлении в силу государственного бюджета — Finance Act

положительное сальдо государственного бюджета, превышение доходов над расходами в бюджете — budget surplus

проект государственного бюджета на... год — draft of the state budget for...

проект (государственного) бюджета — the Estimates (Великобритания)

дефицитный бюджет — deficit-ridden budget

дутый бюджет — phony budget

несбалансированный бюджет, бюджет, сводимый с дефицитом — unbalanced budget

предусмотренный бюджетом — budgetary

сбалансированный бюджет — balanced budget

утверждённый бюджет (законодательным органом) — voted budget

чрезвычайный бюджет — emergency / extraordinary budget

экономный бюджет, бюджет, основанный на режиме строгой экономии — austerity budget

бюджет государственного социального страхования — state social insurance budget

исполнение бюджета — budget implementation / performance

подготовка бюджета — budget preparations / formulation

прения по бюджету — debate on the budget

проект расходной части бюджета — the Estimates (США)

разногласия / разлад по вопросам бюджета — budget rift

составление бюджета — budget-making, budgeting

структура бюджета — make-up of the budget

урезывание расходных статей бюджета — budget curtailment

Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > бюджет
15 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    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.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal
16 verringern

verringern v 1. FIN cut; 2. GEN diminish; scale down, work down (Bestand); reduce (Ausgaben); 3. MGT, PERS downsize, reduce, cut (Personalbestand); 4. WIWI reduce, run down, lessen
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v 1. < Finanz> cut; 2. < Geschäft> diminish, Bestand scale down, work down, Ausgaben reduce; 3. <Mgmnt, Person> Personalbestand downsize, reduce, cut; 4. <Vw> reduce, run down, lessen

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verringern
to diminish, to reduce, to decrease, to pare down, (Münzen) to debase, (Vermögen) to dwindle, (im Wert) to deteriorate;
• Arbeitskräfte verringern to reduce forces;
• Ausgaben (Spesenetat) verringern to cut down expenses;
• Ausstoß verringern to reduce the output;
• Haushaltsdefizit verringern to shrink its budget deficit;
• Kosten verringern to reduce costs;
• Personal radikal verringern to axe a number of officials (Br.);
• etw. stark verringern to slash s. th.;
• jds. Zuschuss verringern to cut s. one’s allowance.

Business german-english dictionary > verringern
17 Ausgabe

Ausgabe f (Ausg.) 1. BANK issue (Geld); 2. BÖRSE issue (Aktien); 3. COMP edition, ed.; output, computer output (Daten); 4. FIN issue (Kosten); 5. GEN edition, ed.; number, expense, expenditure; outlay (Kosten); 6. MEDIA copy number, edition, ed., issue • die Ausgabe auf sich nehmen GEN go to the expense of
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f (Ausg.) 1. < Bank> Geld issue; 2. < Börse> Aktien issue; 3. < Comp> edition (ed.), Daten output, computer output; 4. < Finanz> money issue; 5. < Geschäft> edition (ed.), Kosten outlay, number, expense, expenditure; 6. < Medien> copy number, edition (ed.), issue ■ die Ausgabe auf sich nehmen < Geschäft> go to the expense of

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Ausgabe
expense, expenditure, outlay, (Ausgabestelle) booking office, (Aushändigung) giving (handing) out, (Auslage) disbursement, outlay, (Briefe) delivery, (Buch) edition, set, (Computer) output, (Emission) issue, issuing, issuance (US), emission, (Gepäck) counter, (Verteilung) distribution, (Zeitung) number, edition;
• mit all den damit verbundenen Ausgaben with all its attendant expenses;
• Ausgaben expenditure, expense, outgoings (Br.), outlay;
• abnehmende Ausgaben declining expenditure;
• absetzbare Ausgaben deductible expenses;
• abzugsfähige Ausgaben deductible expenses;
• aktivierte Ausgaben capitalized expenses;
• alte Ausgabe (Heft) back issue, (Zeitung) back number;
• steuerlich nicht anerkannte Ausgaben expenditure not allowable for tax purposes, disallowable expenditure;
• vor der Gründung angefallene Ausgaben preliminary expenses;
• mit Vorrechten ausgestattete Ausgabe (Anleihe) senior issue;
• außerordentliche Ausgaben extra-budgetary (extraordinary) expenditure, extraordinary expenses, extras, (Haushalt) extrabudgetary expenses;
• außerplanmäßige Ausgaben unbudgeted expenditure, expenditure not provided for in the budget, expenditure not budgeted for;
• bare Ausgaben cash expenditure (expenses), out-of-pocket expenses;
• bearbeitete Ausgabe revised edition;
• bedeutende Ausgaben high expenses;
• berechtigte Ausgabe copyrighted edition;
• betriebliche Ausgaben operating expenditure;
• billige Ausgabe cheap edition;
• broschierte Ausgabe pamphlet copy;
• diverse Ausgaben sundry expenses, sundries;
• effektive Ausgaben out-of-pocket expenses;
• einbändige Ausgabe single- (one-) volume edition;
• in nicht gewerblicher Eigenschaft eingegangene Ausgaben expenses incurred by a trader in another capacity;
• einmalige Ausgaben non-recurring charges (expenses, expenditure);
• endgültige Ausgabe definitive edition;
• entstandene Ausgaben expenses incurred;
• entstandene oder mit der Geschäftsführung notwendigerweise entstehende Ausgaben costs necessarily incurred in the conduct of business;
• erstattungsfähige Ausgaben refundable expenditure;
• erweiterte Ausgabe enlarged edition;
• noch nicht fällige Ausgaben accrued expenses;
• feste (fortlaufende) Ausgaben constant expenses, non-variable expenditure, fixed charges;
• in den Römischen Verträgen nicht festgelegte Ausgaben (EU) non-obligatory spending;
• zweispaltig gedruckte Ausgabe double-column edition;
• gehabte Ausgaben incurred expenses;
• zulasten der Gemeinde gehende Ausgaben expenses defrayable out of local contributions;
• gekürzte Ausgabe abridged edition;
• gelegentliche Ausgaben casual expenses, incidentals;
• gemeine Ausgaben ordinary expenses;
• amtlich genehmigte Ausgabe sealed form;
• geplante Ausgaben spending plan;
• geringe Ausgaben light expense;
• geringfügige Ausgaben petty expenses;
• urheberrechtlich (verlagsrechtlich) geschützte Ausgabe copyright[ed] edition, copyrighted publication;
• gleich bleibende Ausgaben expense constants;
• große Ausgaben heavy expenditure;
• heutige Ausgabe (Zeitung) current number;
• unzulässig hohe Ausgabe (Anleihe) overissue;
• indirekte Ausgaben indirect expenses;
• kapitalisierte Ausgaben capitalized expenses;
• kleine Ausgaben petty cash (charges), minor expenses;
• kleinere Ausgaben minor expenses;
• laufende Ausgaben fixed (current, running) expenses, current (returning) expenditure;
• letzte Ausgabe (Zeitschrift) current number, latest edition, final (coll.);
• unberechtigt nachgedruckte Ausgabe pirated edition;
• neue Ausgabe reprint;
• notwendige Ausgaben connected expenses, expenses necessarily incurred;
• [nicht] obligatorische Ausgaben (EU)[non-]compulsory expenditure;
• öffentliche Ausgaben government expenditure;
• ordentliche Ausgaben ordinary expenses;
• persönliche Ausgaben private expenses;
• private Ausgaben private expenditure;
• projektbezogene Ausgabe project-related spending;
• revidierte Ausgabe revised edition, revision;
• sachliche Ausgaben material cost;
• sonstige Ausgaben (Bilanz) other payments, non-operating expenses;
• stabile Ausgaben stable spending;
• steigende Ausgaben growing expenditure;
• tägliche Ausgaben daily expenses, routine expenditure;
• tatsächliche Ausgaben out-of-pocket expenses, actual expenditure;
• übermäßige Ausgaben profuse expenditure;
• auf das Kapitalkonto übernommene Ausgaben capitalized expenses;
• unerwartete Ausgaben contingent expenses, contingencies;
• ungedeckte Ausgaben uncovered expenses;
• unveränderte Ausgabe reprint;
• unvorhergesehene Ausgaben unforeseen expense (expenditure), contingent expenses, contingencies, incidentals;
• veranschlagte Ausgaben expenditure budgeted for;
• vermögenswirksame Ausgaben asset-creating expenditure, capital spending;
• verschiedene Ausgaben (Bilanz) sundries, sundry expenses;
• verschwenderische Ausgaben profuse expenditure, prodigal expenses;
• vertretbare Ausgabe warrantable outlay;
• tatsächlich vorgenommene Ausgaben actual expenditure outturns;
• wachsende growing expenditure;
• werbende Ausgaben productive expenses;
• wiederkehrende Ausgaben fixed charges, recurring expenditure (expenses);
• nicht wiederkehrende Ausgaben non-recurring expenditure;
• regelmäßig wiederkehrende Ausgaben recurrent expenses;
• zusätzliche Ausgaben additonal expenses;
• Einnahmen und Ausgaben income and expenditure;
• Ausgaben durch Ferienreisende tourist expenditure;
• Ausgaben für Forschung expenditure on research;
• Ausgabe von Gratisaktien issue of bonus shares, bonus issue (Br.);
• Ausgabe von Gratisaktien bei Kapitalerhöhung capitalization issue;
• jährlich neu zu finanzierende Ausgaben der öffentlichen Hand supply services (Br.);
• konjunkturbelebende Ausgaben der öffentlichen Hand deficit budgeting;
• Ausgaben der öffentlichen Hände government spending, government[al] expenditure, public outlays;
• Ausgaben für Investitionszwecke investment spending;
• Ausgabe von mit variablen Zinssätzen ausgestatteten Kommunalanleihen floating rate issue in the local authority negotiable bond market;
• Ausgaben pro Kopf der Bevölkerung per capita costs;
• Ausgaben für den Lebensunterhalt consumption expenditure;
• Ausgabe neuer Münzen issue of new coinage;
• Ausgabe von Obligationen floating (issue) of bonds;
• Ausgabe eines Passes issue of a passport;
• Ausgaben für die Regionen spending for the regions;
• Ausgaben außer der Reihe extras;
• Ausgaben im Reiseverkehr tourist spending;
• Ausgabe von Schuldverschreibungen bond issuance;
• Ausgabe von Sonderziehungsrechten (Weltwährungsfonds) special drawing rights issue;
• Ausgaben auf dem Sozialversicherungssektor social-security spending;
• Ausgaben zur freien Verfügung discretionary spending;
• Ausgaben für die innere Verwaltung internal administrative expenditure;
• Ausgaben im Vorgriff anticipatory expenditure;
• Ausgabe einer Zeitung run of a paper;
• Ausgaben abdecken to clear expenses;
• Ausgaben auf j. abwälzen to board the gravy train (US)
• seine Ausgaben den Einnahmen anpassen to proportion one’s expenses to one’s income, to equate the expenses with the income;
• sich in den Ausgaben Beschränkungen auferlegen to show spending forbearance;
• Ausgaben aufgliedern to classify expenses, to break down expenses (US);
• seine Ausgaben aufschlüsseln to allocate one’s expenditure;
• Ausgabe als aktivierungspflichtigen Aufwand behandeln to treat an expenditure as properly attributable to capital;
• Ausgaben beschneiden to cut expenditure;
• Ausgaben kräftig beschneiden to axe expenditure;
• seine Ausgaben beschränken to restrict one’s expenses;
• öffentliche Ausgaben beschränken to contain public expenditure;
• Ausgaben bestreiten to defray the costs;
• als Ausgaben buchen to enter as expenditure (expense);
• voll abzugsfähige Ausgaben darstellen to be fully deductible current expenses;
• Ausgaben in konstanten Preisen darstellen to express expenditure in constant prices;
• Ausgaben decken to cover expenses;
• Ausgaben einschränken to cut down (reduce the, limit) expenses, to curtail, to retrench expenses, to make retrenchments, to curtail one’s expenses, to take in a reef;
• sich in seinen Ausgaben einschränken to draw in one’s expenditure;
• Ausgaben auf ein vernünftiges Maß einschränken to keep one’s expenditure within reasonable limits;
• unsinnige Ausgaben einschränken to do away with wasteful expenditure;
• Ausgaben erhöhen to increase the expenditure;
• Ausgaben erstatten to refund the expenses;
• 120 Dollar wöchentliche Ausgaben haben to sit at $120 a week;
• Ausgaben zu verantworten haben to be responsible for the expenditure;
• Ausgaben radikal herabsetzen to axe expenditure;
• sich eine Ausgabe leisten können to afford on expense;
• Ausgaben machen to spend;
• große Ausgaben machen to incur heavy expenses;
• Ausgaben senken to cut expenditure;
• geringere Ausgaben tätigen to underspend;
• Ausgaben übernehmen to bear the costs;
• als Ausgaben verbuchen to enter as expenditure;
• überflüssige Ausgaben vermeiden to economize;
• große Ausgaben verursachen to entail large expenditure;
• große Ausgaben vornehmen to spend a great deal;
• Ausgabe von Gratisaktien vornehmen to declare a stock dividend;
• Ausgaben wiedereinbringen to recover the expenses;
• auf eine Ausgabe zeichnen to subscribe to an issue;
• für unvorhergesehene Ausgaben zurückstellen to allow (provide) for contingencies;
• Ausgaben und Einnahmen decken sich the expenses balance the receipts;
• Ausgabeautomat (Fahrscheine) vending machine;
• Ausgabebank bank of issue;
• Ausgabebedingungen (Obligation) debenture conditions;
• Ausgabebeleg voucher jacket, voucher for payment;
• Ausgabebereich (Computer) output area;
• Ausgabedatei (Computer) output file;
• Ausgabedaten (Computer) output data;
• Ausgabedatum issuance date;
• Ausgabeermäßigung (Konsortium) concession.

Business german-english dictionary > Ausgabe
18 сокращать масштабный дефицит бюджета

Finances: reduce the massive budget deficit (контекстуальный перевод; англ. цитата - из репортажа агентства Thomson Reuters)

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > сокращать масштабный дефицит бюджета
19 spesa

f expense

fare la spesa do the shopping

fare spese go shopping

spese pl di produzione production costs

spese pl di pubblicità advertising costs

spese pl vive incidental expenses

a proprie spese at one's own expense

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spesa s.f.

1 expense, expenditure; spending; ( costo) cost, outlay; charge, fee: spese di manutenzione, maintenance charges (o upkeep expenses); spese di riparazione, cost of repairs; spese di viaggio, travelling expenses; spese domestiche, household expenses; spese minute, petty expenses; spese vive, out-of-pocket expenses; spese scolastiche, school fees; ci fu una spesa di 25.000 euro per le nuove attrezzature, there was an expenditure (o outlay) of 25,000 euros on (o for) new fittings; sta facendo grandi spese, he is spending a lot of money; far fronte a una spesa, to meet an expense; sostenere le spese di qlco., to bear the cost of (o to pay for) sthg.; far sostenere spese a qlcu., to put s.o. to expense; coprire le spese, to cover the cost; ridurre le spese, to cut down one's expenses // a proprie spese, at one's own expense, (fig.) to one's cost; imparare a proprie spese, to learn at one's cost; a spese altrui, (anche fig.) at other people's expense; non badare a spese, to spare no expense: non bada a spese, he spares no expense (o money is no object for him) // fare le spese di qlco., (fig.) to pay for sthg. // essere di poca spesa, (fig.) to be undemanding // stare sulla spesa, to support (o to keep) oneself // (amm.): spese di bollo, stamp dues; spese di registro, registration dues; spese fisse, standing expenses; spese generali, overheads (o overhead expenses); spese ordinarie, ordinary charges (o recurring expenses); spese straordinarie, supplementari, addizionali, extra (o additional) expenses (o costs o charges); spese varie, sundry expenses (o charges); spese amministrative, administrative expenses; a spese pubbliche, at public expense // (econ.): spese correnti, current (o running) expenses; spese di fabbricazione, manufacturing costs; spese di produzione, production expenses (o expenses of production); spese di gestione, di esercizio, operating (o running) costs; spese di manodopera, labour costs; spese fisse, fixed charges; spesa in conto capitale, capital expenditure (o spending); spesa per consumi, consumer expenditure; spesa per investimenti, investment outlays; spese previste dal budget, budgetary expenditure; incorrere in grandi spese, to incur great expenses; spesa nazionale lorda, gross national expenditure; spesa di avviamento, start-up costs (o organization expenses); spesa pubblica, public (o government) expenditure; spesa pubblica in disavanzo, deficit spending // (comm.): spese assegnate, charges forward; spese di trasporto, freightage (o carriage o transport charges); spesa di trasferta, travelling expenses; spese d'incasso, collection expenses; spese promozionali, promotion expenses; comprese le spese, charges included (o inclusive of charges); escluse le spese, charges excluded (o exclusive of charges) // (fin.): spese di emissione, issue (o floatation) costs; spese iniziali a carico di sottoscrittori di fondi, front and fees // (dir.): con spese, with charges; senza spese, without charges // (mar.): spese di sbarco, landing charges; spese di stivaggio, stowage; spese portuali, port charges

2 ( acquisto) buy; purchase: questo mobile è stato una bella spesa, this piece of furniture was a good buy

3 ( compera) shopping: la lista della spesa, the shopping list; la borsa della spesa, shopping bag; fare la spesa, to do the shopping; faccio la spesa nei negozi vicino a casa, I do the shopping in the shops near home; andare a fare spese, to go shopping.

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['spesa]
1. sf

1) (soldi spesi) expense, (uscita) outlay, expenditure, (costo) cost

una grossa spesa — a big expense

la spesa è di 200 euro — it will cost 200 euros

con la modica spesa di 1000 euro — for the modest sum o outlay of 1,000 euros

ridurre le spese — (gen) to cut down (on spending), Comm to reduce expenditure

a spese della ditta — at the firm's expense

sono andata a Parigi a spese della ditta — I went to Paris at the company's expense

le spese ti verranno rimborsate — your expenses will be reimbursed

a mie spese fig — at my expense

fare le spese di qc fig — to pay the price for sth

2) (acquisto) buy, purchase, (fam : compere) shopping no pl

fare la spesa — to do the shopping

fare (delle) spese — to go shopping

adoro fare spese — I love shopping

2.

- spesa pubblica

- spese in conto capitale

- spese fisse

- spese generali

- spese di gestione

- spese d'impianto

- spese legali

- spese di manutenzione

- spese postali

- spese di trasporto

- spese straordinarie

- spese di viaggio

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['spesa]
sostantivo femminile

1) (costo) expenditure, expense, cost, spending U

-e per l'elettricità, il telefono — electricity, telephone charges

- e per l'istruzione, la difesa — expenditure o spending on education, defence

-e di trasporto, di manodopera — transport, labour costs

dividere, tagliare le -e — to share the costs, to cut costs

sostenere forti -e — to incur heavy costs

non badare a -e — to spare no expense

2) (compere) shopping U

lista, borsa della spesa — shopping list, bag

fare la spesa — to do the o some shopping

andare a fare la spesa — to go shopping o to the shops

3) (acquisto)

questa gonna è stata una buona spesa — this skirt was a good buy

4) a spese di

a -e dello stato o della comunità at public expense; la trasferta è a -e della società business travel is chargeable to the company; vivere a -e di qcn. — to live off sb

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spesa pubblica — public expenditure o spending, government spending

- e bancarie — bank charges

- e correnti — current expenditure, running expenses

- e doganali — customs expenses o charges

- e fisse — standing charge

spesa processuali — dir. (legal) costs

- e sociali — welfare spending

- e di spedizione — forwarding o shipping charges, postage

- e straordinarie — nonrecurring expenses

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imparare qcs. a proprie -e — to learn sth. the hard way o at one's own expense o at one's cost

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spesa

/'spesa/

sostantivo f.

1 (costo) expenditure, expense, cost, spending U; -e per l'elettricità, il telefono electricity, telephone charges; - e per l'istruzione, la difesa expenditure o spending on education, defence; -e di trasporto, di manodopera transport, labour costs; dividere, tagliare le -e to share the costs, to cut costs; sostenere forti -e to incur heavy costs; non badare a -e to spare no expense

2 (compere) shopping U; lista, borsa della spesa shopping list, bag; fare la spesa to do the o some shopping; andare a fare la spesa to go shopping o to the shops

3 (acquisto) questa gonna è stata una buona spesa this skirt was a good buy

4 a spese di a -e dello stato o della comunità at public expense; la trasferta è a -e della società business travel is chargeable to the company; vivere a -e di qcn. to live off sb.

IDIOMS

imparare qcs. a proprie -e to learn sth. the hard way o at one's own expense o at one's cost

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COMPOUNDS

spesa pubblica public expenditure o spending, government spending; - e bancarie bank charges; - e correnti current expenditure, running expenses; - e doganali customs expenses o charges; - e fisse standing charge; spesa processuali dir. (legal) costs; - e sociali welfare spending; - e di spedizione forwarding o shipping charges, postage; - e straordinarie nonrecurring expenses.

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