search for jobs

sə:tʃ
1. сущ.
1) а) поиски;
поиск, розыск( улик, пропавшего самолета, человека и т. п.) to conduct, make a search ≈ искать careful, painstaking, thorough search ≈ тщательные поиски exhaustive search компьют. ≈ исчерпывающий поиск, поиск методом полного перебора fruitless search ≈ бесплодные поиски the search for truth ≈ искания правды I am in search of a house. ≈ Я ищу себе дом.
2) а) обыск (чего и кого угодно) right of search unwarranted search and seizure body search б) таможенный досмотр
3) амер. расследование( какого-л. дела) ;
исследование( каких-л. фактов) ;
изучение, изыскание( научное и т. п.) literature search ≈ литературные искания Syn: investigation, exploration
2. гл.
1) искать;
вести поиски, разыскивать (тж. с for) to search for a lost girl ≈ разыскивать заблудившуюся девочку
2) а) шарить;
обыскивать;
производить обыск (личных вещей, в доме и т. п.) to search the car ≈ обыскивать машину Syn: hunt б) перен. искать (в памяти), перебирать, анализировать (свои чувства и т. п.), копаться у себя в душе
3) исследовать, вести исследования, поиск новых разработок (for, after) to search after new remedies ≈ разрабатывать новые средства лечения
4) редк. пронизывать, проникать;
пробирать до костей (о холоде, ветре и т. п.) ∙ search after search out search through search me! поиск(и) - the * for the missing airmen поиски пропавших летчиков - the * for /after/ truth поиски истины - the * for /after/ happiness погоня за счастьем - in * of smth. в поисках чего-л. - in * of health пытаясь восстановить здоровье - to be in * of employment подыскивать себе работу - he is in * for an apartment он ищет квартиру - to set out in * of smth. приняться за розыск чего-л. - in my * I found... в процессе поисков я обнаружил... - to make a * for smb., smth. разыскивать /искать/ кого-л., что-л. - to make a useful * among the old newspapers не без пользы порыться в старых газетах (военное) поиск;
поиск экипажа или самолета, совершившего вынужденную посадку (военное) поиск цели обыск - house-to-house *es повальные обыски - * warrant ордер на обыск - right of * право обыска судов (в открытом море) досмотр (таможенный и т. п.) (американизм) расследование;
исследование;
осмотр( редкое) пронизывающий холод или ветер (информатика) (информационный) поиск, перебор вариантов - area * групповой поиск - database * поиск в базе данныхх - logarithmic * двоичный поиск, поиск делением пополам - * image поисковый образ - * space область /зона/ поиска искать, отыскивать;
разыскивать - to * for a manuscript искать рукопись - to * after happiness стремиться к счастью - to * after new remedies разрабатывать новые средства лечения - to * for /after/ a lost child разыскивать заблудившегося ребенка - to * after truth стремиться к истине, биться в поисках истины найти, разыскать( обыкн. * out) - to * out all the facts выяснить все факты - to * out an old friend разыскать старого друга обыскивать, обшаривать - to * the city for the thief обшарить весь город в поисках вора - to * in the records for evidence перерыть все материалы для доказательства (чего-л.) - I've *ed my memory, but I can't remember that man's name я мучительно напрягал память, но не мог вспомнить имя этого человека обыскивать, производить обыск - to * a house производить обыск в доме - to * a prisoner for a hidden weapon обыскивать заключенного в поисках спрятанного оружия досматривать, проводить досмотр (особ. таможенный) - to * a ship подвергать досмотру судно - luggage is *ed at the custom house багаж досматривается в таможне внимательно рассматривать;
изучать, наблюдать - to * the air (военное) наблюдать за воздухом /за небом/ - to * smb.'s face вглядываться в чье-л. лицо исследовать, изучать - to * a wound зондировать рану - to * one's heart проверять /анализировать/ свои чувства - to * one's conscience прислушиваться к своей совести, спрашивать свою совесть - to * through many a dusty document переворошить груду пыльных документов исследовать, отыскивать - to * through the dictionary for a word искать слово по всему словарю - to * a book for a passage worth quoting внимательно просматривать книгу в поисках подходящей цитаты исследовать, расследовать - to * into the cause of smth. расследовать причины чего-л. - to * into a matter изучать вопрос - to * to the root of smth. доискаться до корней чего-л. - to * into a secret пытаться раскрыть тайну пронизывать, проникать - to * ground (военное) простреливать местность - the cold wind *ed every part of the city холодный ветер гулял по всему городу - a hail of bullets *ed the trench град пуль обрушился на окопы (военное) разведывать;
вести поиск (военное) вести огонь с рассеиванием в глубину > * me! понятия не имею! active ~ рекл. активный поиск associative ~ ассоциативный поиск best-first ~ поиск по принципу сперва лучше bidirectional ~ двунаправленный поиск binary ~ двоичный поиск blind ~ полный перебор bodily ~ обыск body ~ обыск тела breadth-first ~ поиск в ширину case-insensitive ~ вчт. поиск без учета регистра case-sensitive ~ вчт. поиск с учетом регистра chained ~ вчт. связный поиск chained ~ цепной поиск ~ проникать;
the cold searched his marrow он продрог до мозга костей;
search out разыскать, найти conjunctive ~ конъюнктивный поиск customs ~ таможенный досмотр data-driven ~ прямой поиск database ~ вчт. поиск в базе данных depth-first ~ вчт. поиск в глубину dichotomizing ~ двоичный поиск disjunctive ~ дизъюнктивный поиск exhaustive ~ полный перебор exhaustive ~ полный перебор вариантов file ~ вчт. поиск файлов goal-driven ~ обратный поиск house ~ домашний обыск ~ поиски;
I am in search of a house я ищу себе дом;
a search for a missing aircraft поиски пропавшего самолета incremental ~ пошаговый поиск job ~ поиск работы key ~ вчт. поиск по ключу limit-type ~ граничный поиск logarithmic ~ поиск делением пополам multiway ~ вчт. многоканальный поиск novelty ~ поиски новизны pattern ~ вчт. непосредственный поиск preorder tree ~ вчт. поиск в ширину random ~ случайный поиск search вести розыск ~ внимательно рассматривать ~ досмотр судна ~ зондировать (рану) ~ изучать ~ изыскание ~ искать (for) ~ вчт. искать ~ исследование;
изыскание ~ исследование ~ исследовать;
to search one's heart анализировать свои чувства ~ исследовать ~ обыск;
right of search юр. право обыска судов ~ обыск ~ обыскивать ~ осмотр ~ перебор вариантов ~ вчт. поиск ~ поиск ~ поиски;
I am in search of a house я ищу себе дом;
a search for a missing aircraft поиски пропавшего самолета ~ производить досмотр судна ~ производить обыск ~ проникать;
the cold searched his marrow он продрог до мозга костей;
search out разыскать, найти ~ расследование ~ розыск ~ шарить;
обыскивать;
to search a house производить обыск в доме;
to search one's memory вспоминать, напрягая память ~ шарить;
обыскивать;
to search a house производить обыск в доме;
to search one's memory вспоминать, напрягая память ~ attr. поисковый ~ for вести поиск ~ for искать ~ поиски;
I am in search of a house я ищу себе дом;
a search for a missing aircraft поиски пропавшего самолета ~ for jobs поиски работы ~ in bankruptcy расследование причин банкротства to ~ out an old friend разыскать старого друга;
search me! разг. почем я знаю! ~ of premises обыск помещений ~ исследовать;
to search one's heart анализировать свои чувства ~ шарить;
обыскивать;
to search a house производить обыск в доме;
to search one's memory вспоминать, напрягая память ~ проникать;
the cold searched his marrow он продрог до мозга костей;
search out разыскать, найти to ~ out an old friend разыскать старого друга;
search me! разг. почем я знаю! serial ~ последовательный поиск title ~ именной поиск tree ~ поиск по дереву

subst. job hunting, job search, search for jobs

I II I II

Ex: The particular issue has to do with pagers and cell phones going off in a public library and the need for a policy to control the situation.

* llamar por el busca = bleep.

* navegar por la red en busca de información = surf for + information.

Del verbo buscar: ( conjugate buscar)

busca es:



Multiple Entries:
busca    
buscar
busca sustantivo femenino ( búsqueda) search;

salieron en su busca they set out to look for him
■ sustantivo masculino (Esp fam) pager, beeper (AmE), bleeper (BrE)
buscar ( conjugate buscar) verbo transitivo
1

‹fama/fortuna› to seek;



2



(— en tren, a pie) I went to meet him at the airport;



fue a busca un médico/un taxi he went to get a doctor/a taxi;
¿qué buscas con eso? what are you trying to achieve by that?
verbo intransitivo
to look;

buscarse verbo pronominal
1 ( intentar encontrar) to look for
2 ‹ problemas› to ask for;

tú te lo has buscado you've brought it on yourself, it serves you right;
buscársela(s) (fam): te la estás buscando you're asking for trouble, you're asking for it (colloq)
busca
I sustantivo femenino search
ir en busca de, to go in search of
II m inv bleeper, pager
buscar verbo transitivo
1 to look for
2 (en la enciclopedia, en el diccionario) to look up
3 (conseguir, traer) to fetch: ve a buscar un poco de agua, go and fetch some water
4 (recoger cosas) to collect
(recoger personas) to pick up: fue a buscarme al trabajo, she picked me up from work
' busca' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
batir
- batida
- confín
- nacional
- tras
- buscar
- interesado
- orden
- por
English:
after
- bleeper
- extortion
- feel
- fish
- kerb-crawler
- pasture
- pursuit
- root about
- root around
- scan
- scavenge
- scour
- search
- shake down
- want
- drill
- scavenger
Esp [buscapersonas] pager

tro:l
1. noun
2. verb
I
1. trɔːl
2.

II
[trɔːl]
I
1. [trɔːl]
2.

II

Ex: Good luck and don't hesitate to ask me or anyone on the management team for advice or assistance!.

Ex: The Executive Board has been dithering over the control of the search for the next executive director = La Junta Directiva ha estado dudando si controlar o no la elección del siguiente director ejecutivo.

Ex: Australia's treatment of information technology has vacillated between laissez faire and an interventionist strategy.

* sin titubear = unswervingly.

titubear ( conjugate titubear) verbo intransitivo



titubear verbo intransitivo
1 (mostrarse indeciso) to hesitate
2 (balbucear) to stammer, get tongue-tied
' titubear' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
vacilar
English:
dither
- falter
- hesitate
- waver
[dudar] to hesitate; [al hablar] to falter, to hesitate

1. [haʊs], pl [haʊzɪz] 2. [haʊz]

- работа в ночную смену
- работа на дому
- работа неполный рабочий день
- работа по графику
- работа по контракту
- работа по найму
- работа полный рабочий день
- работа по профессии
- работа по трудовому договору
- административная работа
- бесперебойная работа
- бесплатная работа
- бригадная работа
- временная работа - договорная работа
- домашняя работа
- исправительные работы
- исследовательская работа
- канцелярская работа
- каторжные работы
- монтажные работы
- надлежащая работа
- научно-исследовательская работа
- непостоянная работа
- низкооплачиваемая работа
- общественная работа
- общественно-полезная работа
- общественные работы
- обычная работа
- опытно-конструкторские работы
- повседневная работа
- подённая работа
- подрядные работы
- подсобная работа
- постоянная работа
- принудительная работа
- проектно-изыскательные работы
- ремонтные работы
- сверхурочная работа
- сдельная работа
- сезонная работа
- сельскохозяйственная работа
- случайная работа
- спасательные работы
- строительные работы
- творческая работа
- умственная работа
- управленческая работа
- физическая работа
- черновая работа
- штатная работа
- экспериментальная работа

1. 2. 1. 2.

Ex: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.

Ex: Despite the present financial straits of developing countries, she argues in favour of long-term plan for the acquisition of relevant rare book material.

Ex: It is our contention that an understanding of such basic principles is fundamental to an appreciation of the many and varied contexts that the individual is likely to encounter.

Ex: The author contends that it is possible to view the search conducted with the aid of a series of menus as having strong similarities with the search through the hierarchy of a enumerative classification scheme.

Ex: A respondent is a candidate for a degree who, in an academic disputation, defends or opposes a thesis proposed by the praeses (q.v.); also called the defendant.

Ex: Most respondents espoused the latter view as an appropriate response to IT developments to date.

Ex: They maintain, in an article written for Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) 'that automated cataloging systems have addressed only half of the problems of maintaining a library catalog'.

Ex: My perspective, for which I make no apology, is that of someone who works daily with the nitty-gritty of cataloging, as many of you do.

Ex: This point-by-point evaluation makes a fairly convincing case for the public access online catalogue.

Ex: I would plead for more standardization, not less, because I think whatever we do is going to be imperfect.

Ex: A more moderate approach is found in the writings of Olding, who puts the case for multiple entry very concisely in a short pamphlet.

Ex: It's about time that we go back to these principles and make sure that the quality of cataloging is upheld.

Ex: There are also dedicated individuals within government who have found a niche from which to crusade for school libraries.

Ex: A major failing of the information industry is that its members tend to preach to one another whereas what they should be doing is talking to everyone else outside the information industry.

Ex: A major failing of the information industry is that its members tend to preach to one another whereas what they should be doing is talking to everyone else outside the information industry.

Ex: In particular he championed free photoduplication of library materials as a natural extension of library services to patrons at a distance.

Ex: Many people voiced fears that volunteers would be used to take over paid jobs from the workforce, but others spoke up for volunteers saying that in many cases they had created extra jobs for the permanent staff.

Ex: Many people voiced fears that volunteers would be used to take over paid jobs from the workforce, but others spoke up for volunteers saying that in many cases they had created extra jobs for the permanent staff.

Ex: Moreover, in addition to quantitative measures, qualitative indicators of benefits should be considered so as to present a complete picture when articulating the case for a library's total positive impact.

Ex: An MP, a barrister, and a financial consultant present the case for charging Value Added Tax (VAT) on books.

Ex: The author mounts a spirited defence of the National Library of Australia future collecting priorities.

Ex: In an effort to save US culture, strike a blow for reading, and correct well intentioned but misguided notions about the Internet making libraries obsolete, offers ten reasons why the Internet is no substitute for a library..

Ex: The Augustinian order kept his theological tradition, and raised the flag of the Augustinian thought before and after the German reformer.

Ex: The author comes down in favour of adding notes to cataloguing records on the grounds that the educational purpose that they are intended to serve is clear.

Ex: He states that he has always admired Woody Allen, explaining that when he first saw his films he was happy to see that someone was sticking up for the little guy.

Ex: It's hard to believe she stands by a man who gets his kicks out of beating her black and blue everynight.

Ex: I recalled how bereft we felt when we lost our son and how friends and neighbours rallied round and offered a shoulder to cry on.

Ex: The second group, who rallied behind McCarthy, was composed of students and intellectuals who were vociferous against the war.

Ex: I will stand for your rights as my forefathers did before me!.

* defender a = put + a word in for.

* defender a Alguien = stand up for.

* defender Algo = argue + Posesivo + corner.

* defender el fuerte = hold + the fortress.

* defender el honor de Uno = defend + Posesivo + honour.

* defender enérgicamente = be vociferous about/in.

* defender la causa de = further + the cause of.

* defender la necesidad = articulate + the need.

* defender la necesidad de = support + the case for.

* defender lo indenfensible = defend + the indefensible.

* defender los derechos de Uno = stand up for + Posesivo + rights.

* defender los intereses = defend + interests, lobby for + interests.

* defender los intereses de = go to + bat for, bat for.

* defender los principios de Uno = stand up for + Posesivo + principles.

* defender + Posesivo + argumento = support + Posesivo + case, buttress + Posesivo + case.

* defender + Posesivo + caso = take up + Posesivo + case.

* defender + Posesivo + causa = advance + Posesivo + cause.

* defender + Posesivo + idea = support + Posesivo + case.

* defender + Posesivo + postura = argue + Posesivo + case.

* defenderse = bite back, stand up, strike back, fight back, fight for + Posesivo + life.

* defenderse de ataques = ward off + attacks.

* defenderse por uno mismo = fend for + Reflexivo.

* defender una causa = promote + cause, support + cause, champion + cause.

* defender una idea = champion + idea.

* defender un argumento = support + view.

* defender un opinión = support + view.

 

defender ( conjugate defender) verbo transitivo
to defend;
‹ intereses› to protect;
defender a algo/algn de algo/algn to defend sth/sb against sth/sb
defenderse verbo pronominal

(Der) to defend oneself;
defenderse de algo/algn to defend oneself against sth/sb


defender verbo transitivo to defend [contra, against] [de, from]
' defender' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
defensa
- defensor
- defensora
- muerte
- resguardar
- uña
- unirse
- valedor
- valedora
- defienda
English:
argue
- defend
- defender
- guard
- leg
- plead
- speak up
- stand up
- stick up for
- uphold
- advocate
- champion
- speak
- stand
- stick
[amigo] to stand up for; Dep [contrario, delantero] to mark; Dep Dep to mark;

Ex: The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.

Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.

Ex: The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.

Ex: With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.

Ex: The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.

Ex: List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.

Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.

Ex: Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.

Ex: In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.

Ex: Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.

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

Ex: He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".

Ex: The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.

Ex: The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.

Ex: Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.

Ex: This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.

Ex: It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.

Ex: A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.

Ex: Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.

Ex: Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.

Ex: This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.

Ex: Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.

Ex: Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.

Ex: But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.

Ex: Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.

Ex: 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.

Ex: Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.

Ex: Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.

Ex: Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.

Ex: Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.

Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.

Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.

Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.

Ex: This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.

Ex: In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.

Ex: Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.

Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.

Ex: Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.

Ex: This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.

Ex: The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.

Ex: There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.

Ex: Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.

Ex: Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.

Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.

Ex: His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.

Ex: Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.

Ex: It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.

Ex: It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.

Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.

Ex: This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.

Ex: My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.

* ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.

* eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.

* eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.

* eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.

* eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.

* eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.

* eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].

* eliminar el sarro = descale.

* eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.

* eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.

* eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.

* eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.

* eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.

* eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.

* eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar por etapas = phase out.

* eliminar progresivamente = phase out.

* eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.

* eliminar puliendo = buff out.

* eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.

* eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.

* eliminar un error = remove + error.

* eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.

 

eliminar ( conjugate eliminar) verbo transitivo

‹ párrafo› to delete, remove

(Dep) to eliminate, knock out



eliminar verbo transitivo to eliminate
' eliminar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acabar
- cortar
- descalificar
- michelín
- quitar
- sonda
- terminar
- tranquilizar
English:
cut out
- debug
- eliminate
- face
- hit list
- knock out
- liquidate
- obliterate
- remove
- weed
- cut
- delete
- do
- knock
- take
- zap
[grasas, toxinas] to eliminate, to get rid of; [residuos] to dispose of; [manchas] to remove, to get rid of; [fronteras, obstáculos] to remove, to eliminate;

1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.

Ex: It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.

Ex: Unfruitful lines of enquiry are dropped and new and more promising search terms are introduced as the search progresses.

Ex: However, most contributors to the debate about the future of SLIS have eschewed practicalities in favour of sweeping and dramatic generalizations.

Ex: If support for quality cataloging is not going to be given, I think we should give it up entirely.

Ex: If you decide not to send or save the message, replace the question mark in front of ' Quit' with another character.

Ex: The Library will consider relinquishing them only when there is strong assurance that their transfer would not adversely affect the library community.

Ex: Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.

Ex: It is our professional duty to help the reader, leading him from author to author, book to book, with enough sure-footed confidence that he is guided up the literary mountain and not left wandering in the viewless foothills because of one's own incompetence.

Ex: Indeed, she was delighted to forsake the urban reality of steel and glass, traffic and crime, aspirin and litter, for the sort of over-the-fence friendliness of the smaller city.

Ex: The development of optical fibres for information transmission has exciting potential here, but there is a very large investment in the present systems which cannot be swept aside overnight.

Ex: Recently, however, libraries have deserted the individual and have pandered too much to the needs of the general public.

Ex: The author takes a critical look at the UK government's education policy with regard to schools' ' opting out' of local government control.

Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.

Ex: To pull back now would make both her and him look bad.

Ex: It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.

Ex: Instead the two ecclesiastical disputes which arose from Diocletian's decree to surrender scriptures must be seen as more disastrous to Christian unity than the destruction of libraries.

Ex: In the article ' Bailing out' 9 of the 10 librarians interviewed admitted that they were trying to get out of librarianship partly due to unrealistic expectations learned in library school.

Ex: Reduced support is a fact of life, and librarians cannot bargain away their budget pressures.

Ex: The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, ' dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.

Ex: A seemingly simple tale of schoolboys marooned on an island, the novel 'Lord of the Flies' is an enigmatic and provocative piece of literature.

Ex: The actress flaked out again and the director is trying to line up a replacement.

Ex: She seeks to recontextualize those events that history has estranged, destroyed or capriciously left by the wayside.

Ex: Guards in the lead car of the convoy threw their doors open and ran for cover, screaming, 'Get away, get away'.

Ex: One of them sputtered and gesticulated with sufficient violence to induce us to desist.

Ex: Judging by the critical responses to the article so far, it looks like the world isn't quite ready to go cold turkey on its religion addiction.

Ex: There are many thankless jobs in this world, but does that mean you can just walk out on them for your own selfish reasons?.

Ex: At least five members of the audience walked out during the bishop's address.

Ex: A new study suggests that up to 40% of currently employed individuals are ready to jump ship once the economy rebounds.

* abandonar el barco = abandon + ship.

* abandonar las armas = put down + weapons.

* abandonar los estudios = drop out (from school), drop out of + school.

* abandonar los servicios de Alguien = drop out.

* abandonarse = go to + seed.

* abandonarse a = abandon + Reflexivo + to.

* abandonar toda esperanza = give up + hope.

* abandonar (toda/la) esperanza = abandon + (all) hope.

* abandonar un hábito = stop + habit.

* abandonar un lugar = quit + Lugar.

* estudiante de bachiller que abandona los estudios = high-school dropout.

* estudiante universitario que abandona los estudios = college dropout.

* no abandonar = stick with, stand by.

 

abandonar ( conjugate abandonar) verbo transitivo
1


‹marido/amante› to leave;
‹coche/barco› to abandon;

2 [ fuerzas] to desert
3



verbo intransitivo (Dep)


(en boxeo, lucha) to concede defeat
abandonarse verbo pronominal
1 ( entregarse) abandonarse a algo ‹a vicios/placeres› to abandon oneself to sth
2 ( en el aspecto personal) to let oneself go
abandonar
I verbo transitivo
1 (irse de) to leave, quit: tenemos que vernos hoy, porque mañana abandono Madrid, we've got to see eachother today because I'm leaving Madrid tomorrow
2 (a una persona, a un animal) to abandon
abandonar a alguien a su suerte, to leave someone to his fate
3 (un proyecto, los estudios) to give up
4 Dep (retirarse de una carrera) to drop out of
(un deporte) to drop
II vi (desfallecer) to give up: los resultados no son los esperados, pero no abandones, the results aren't as good as we expected, but don't give up
' abandonar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
dejar
- botar
- plantar
English:
abandon
- back away
- cast aside
- caution
- desert
- drop
- forsake
- free
- give up on
- habit
- idea
- jettison
- leave
- quit
- retire
- scrap
- stand by
- throw in
- walk out
- ditch
- give
- maroon
- stick
- vacate
- walk
[barco, vehículo] to abandon; [hijo, animal] to abandon; [proyecto] to abandon; [en ajedrez] to resign; [en boxeo] to throw in the towel;

‹ob - a good job
- have a job
- just the job
- make the best of a bad job
dʒəʊb [dʒɒb] day 2. hatchet, nose 4., odd 3., repair I, 3. put-up * (=thing) * (child language) [dʒəʊb]