secondary still

FOOD alambique secundario m

1) (a place for teaching especially children: She goes to the school; He's not at university - he's still at school; (American) He's still in school.) escuela, colegio

2) (the pupils of a school: The behaviour of this school in public is sometimes not very good.) escuela

3) (a series of meetings or a place for instruction etc: She runs a sewing school; a driving school.) curso

4) (a department of a university or college dealing with a particular subject: the School of Mathematics.) facultad

5) ((American) a university or college.) universidad

6) (a group of people with the same ideas etc: There are two schools of thought about the treatment of this disease.) escuela

- schoolbag

school n escuela / colegio / instituto

tr[skʊːl]

noun

1 (gen, primary) escuela, colegio; (secondary) colegio, instituto

■ what are you going to do when you leave school? ¿qué harás cuando dejes el colegio?

2 (lessons) clase nombre femenino

■ let's meet after school quedemos después de clase

3 (students) alumnos nombre masculino plural, alumnado

4 (university department) facultad nombre femenino

5 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL (university) universidad nombre femenino

6 (course) curso, cursillo

7 (group of artists etc) escuela

■ the Dutch school of painting la escuela pictórica holandesa

transitive verb

1 (teach) enseñar; (train) educar, formar

2 (discipline) disciplinar

\

to be one of the old school ser de la vieja escuela, estar chapado,-a a la antigua

school age edad nombre femenino escolar

school holidays vacaciones nombre femenino plural escolares

school of thought corriente nombre femenino de opinión

school uniform uniforme nombre masculino escolar

school year año escolar

tr[skʊːl]

noun

1 (of fish) banco

school ['sku:l] vt

: instruir, enseñar

school n

1) : escuela f, colegio m (institución)

2) : estudiantes mfpl y profesores mpl (de una escuela)

3) : escuela f (en pintura, etc.)

the Flemish school: la escuela flamenca

school of fish : banco m, cardumen m

• colegial adj.

• escolar adj.

• lectivo, -a adj.

• banco s.m.

• colegio s.m.

• escuela s.f.

• estudio s.m.

• facultad s.m.

• adiestrar v.

• enseñar v.

• instruir v.

1) c u

a) (in primary, secondary education) colegio m, escuela f

b) (college, university) (AmE) universidad f

c) ( department) facultad f

2) c u ( other training establishment) academia f, escuela f

3) c (tendency, group) escuela f

4) c ( of fish) cardumen m, banco m; (of dolphins, whales) grupo m

transitive verb \<\<animal\>\> adiestrar; \<\<person\>\> instruir*; ( train) capacitar

1. N

1) (for children)

a) (=institution) escuela f, colegio m

b) (=lessons) clase f

2) (Univ)

a) (=faculty) facultad f

b) (US) (=university) universidad f

3) (=group of artists, writers, thinkers) escuela f

4) (specialist) escuela f

5) (in expressions)

VT [+ horse] amaestrar; [+ person] educar, instruir; [+ reaction, voice etc] dominar

[skuːl]

* * *

1) c u

a) (in primary, secondary education) colegio m, escuela f

b) (college, university) (AmE) universidad f

c) ( department) facultad f

2) c u ( other training establishment) academia f, escuela f

3) c (tendency, group) escuela f

4) c ( of fish) cardumen m, banco m; (of dolphins, whales) grupo m

transitive verb \<\<animal\>\> adiestrar; \<\<person\>\> instruir*; ( train) capacitar

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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active market оживленный рынок advancing market растущий рынок after hours market сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи after market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг approach a market выход на рынок arbitrage market арбитражный рынок banking market банковский рынок barely steady market устойчивый рынок с тенденцией к понижению to be on the long side of the market придерживать товар в ожидании повышения цен market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться bearish market рынок, на котором наблюдается тенденция к снижению курсов bearish market бирж. рынок с понижением фондовой конъюнктуры black market черный рынок black market черный рынок bond market рынок облигаций с фиксированной ставкой to bring one's eggs (или hogs) to a bad (или the wrong) market просчитаться; потерпеть неудачу market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли bulk market рынок транспортных услуг для массовых грузов bull market бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение bull the market exc. играть на повышение bullish market бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение buyer's market конъюнктура рынка, выгодная для покупателя calm the market устанавливать спокойствие на рынке calm the market устранять колебания рыночной конъюнктуры capital market рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала capital market рынок капиталов captive market рынок, нейтрализующий конкуренцию captive market рынок, защищенный от конкуренции cash market бирж. наличный рынок cash market бирж. рынок реальных финансовых инструментов certificate-of-deposit market рынок депозитных сертификатов market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться commodity market рынок товаров commodity market товарная биржа commodity market товарный рынок market: confident market устойчивый рынок consolidate a market укреплять рынок consumer market потребительский рынок control the market контролировать рынок controlled market регулируемый рынок credit market рынок кредита cross-border market международный рынок cultivate a market развивать рынок currency market валютный рынок dampened market вялый рынок dampened market неактивный рынок debenture market рынок долговых обязательств declining market сужающийся рынок depressed market вялый рынок depressed market неактивный рынок develop a market осваивать рынок develop a market развивать рынок development aid market рынок помощи в целях развития difficult market трудный рынок domestic capital market внутренний рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала domestic market внутренний рынок domestic market отечественный рынок dual exchange market валютный рынок с двойным режимом dull market вялый рынок dull market неактивный рынок either way market альтернативный рынок energy market рынок энергоресурсов equity market рынок акций equity market рынок ценных бумаг eurobond market рынок еврооблигаций eurocurrency market евровалютный рынок eurodollar bond market рынок евродолларовых облигаций exchange market валютный рынок excited market оживленный рынок expectant market предполагаемый рынок export market внешний рынок factor market рынок факторов производства falling market понижательная рыночная конъюнктура financial market финансовый рынок market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса market: find a market находить рынок firm market устойчивый рынок flat market бирж. вялый рынок flat market бирж. неоживленный рынок flood the market наводнять рынок fluctuating market нестабильный рынок foreign capital market рынок иностранного капитала foreign exchange market рынок иностранной валюты foreign market внешний рынок forward bond market бирж. рынок форвардных облигаций forward exchange market форвардный валютный рынок forward market форвардный рынок fourth market прямая торговля крупными партиями ценных бумаг между институциональными инвесторами free market свободный рынок, торговля на основе неограниченной конкуренции free market свободный рынок freight market рынок грузовых перевозок futures market бирж. фьючерсный рынок geographical market географический рынок glut the market затоваривать рынок goods market товарный рынок grey market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг grey market нерегулируемый денежный рынок grey market рынок новых облигаций heterogeneous market неоднородный рынок homogeneous market однородный рынок market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли illegal market нелегальный рынок illegal market черный рынок illicit market нелегальный рынок illicit market черный рынок imperfect market несовершенный рынок import market рынок импорта inactive market вялый рынок inactive market неактивный рынок insurance market рынок страхования interbank market межбанковский рынок internal market внутренний рынок kerb market бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerb market бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи kerbstone market бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerbstone market бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи labour market рынок рабочей силы labour market рынок труда leading-edge market рынок передовой технологии loan market рынок ссуд loan market рынок ссудного капитала lose a market терять рынок make a market создавать рынок market (the M.) = common market биржа market городской рынок market находить рынок сбыта market объем потенциальных перевозок market покупать market привезти на рынок; купить или продать на рынке market продавать; сбывать; находить рынок сбыта market продавать на рынке market амер. продовольственный магазин market пускать в оборот market реализовывать на рынке market рынок, базар market рынок market рынок транспортных услуг market рыночная цена market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже market рыночные цены market attr. рыночный; market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка market сбывать на рынке market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться market сбыт market состояние конъюнктуры market специализированный продовольственный магазин market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса market спрос market торговать market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли market торговля Market: Market: Common market Европейское экономическое сообщество market: market: confident market устойчивый рынок market attr. рыночный; market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка research: market market анализ рыночного потенциала нового продукта market market анализ состояния рынка market market изучение возможностей рынка market market изучение рыночной конъюнктуры market market исследование рынка market market маркетинговое исследование market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже mass market рынок товаров массового производства money market денежный рынок, валютный рынок money market денежный рынок money market рынок краткосрочного капитала mortgage deed market рынок залоговых сертификатов move the market продвигать товар на рынок near market ближний рынок negotiated deposit market договорный депозитный рынок new issue market рынок новых эмиссий ocean shipping market рынок морских перевозок off-the-board market внебиржевой рынок offshore market зарубежный рынок oil market рынок нефти on free market на свободном рынке one-way market односторонний рынок open market открытый рынок open: market market вольный рынок; the post is still open место еще не занято options market бирж. рынок опционов overseas market внешний рынок perfect market идеальный рынок physical market наличный рынок market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже primary market первичный рынок primary market рынок новых ценных бумаг primary market рынок сырьевых товаров primary market рынок товара, лежащего в основе срочного контракта primary market рынок финансового инструмента, лежащего в основе срочного контракта profitable market рентабельный рынок property market рынок недвижимости market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться put: market yourself in his place поставь себя на его место; to put on the market выпускать в продажу raw material market рынок сырья ready market готовый рынок real estate market рынок недвижимости receding market рынок со снижающимися курсами reseller market рынок перепродаваемых товаров rig the market искусственно вздувать курсы ценных бумаг rig: market действовать нечестно; мошенничать; to rig the market искусственно повышать или понижать цены rigging the market искусственное вздувание курсов ценных бумаг rising market растущий рынок sagging market рынок, характеризующийся понижением цен sagging market рынок, характеризующийся падением курсов second market вторичный рынок second market второстепенный рынок second-hand market второстепенный рынок second-hand market рынок подержанных товаров secondary labour market вторичный рынок труда secondary market вторичный рынок secondary mortgage market вторичный ипотечный рынок securities market рынок ценных бумаг seller's market эк. рынок, на котором спрос превышает предложение seller's market рынок продавцов seller's market рыночная конъюнктура, выгодная для продавцов sensitive market неустойчивый рынок sensitive market рынок, способный к быстрой реакции sensitive market рынок, отражающий конъюнктурные колебания sensitive: market чувствительный; восприимчивый; a sensitive ear (болезненно) тонкий слух; sensitive market эк. неустойчивый рынок share market фондовая биржа share market фондовый рынок sheltered market закрытая организация (например, фондовая биржа) single European market единый европейский рынок slack market неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slackening market неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slipping market рынок с тенденцией понижения курсов ценных бумаг spot market наличный рынок spot market рынок наличного товара spot market рынок реального товара steady market стабильный рынок steady market устойчивый рынок steady the market стабилизировать рынок stock market уровень цен на бирже stock market фондовая биржа stock market фондовый рынок street market внебиржевой рынок street market неофициальная биржа street market сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи swamp the market наводнять рынок target market целевой рынок test market пробный рынок test the market проверять рынок market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса thin market вялый рынок thin market бирж. неактивный рынок thin market рынок с незначительным числом участников и низким уровнем активности third market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг third market рынок ценных бумаг, не удовлетворяющих требованиям фондовой биржи tight labour market рынок труда с высоким спросом на рабочую силу tight market активный рынок с незначительным разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя tight market рынок с недостаточным предложением trading market бирж. вторичный рынок training market рынок профобразования two-way market рынок, на котором постоянно котируются цены покупателя и продавца two-way market рынок ценных бумаг, на котором заключается большое количество сделок без резких колебаний цен uncertain market рынок в неопределенном состоянии unchanged market неизменившийся рынок underground market черный рынок unofficial market неофициальная биржа unregulated labour market стихийный рынок рабочей силы unsettled market неустойчивый рынок untapped market неосвоенный рынок via interbank market через межбанковский рынок weak market рынок, характеризующийся преобладанием продавцов и понижением цен weaken the market снижать активность на рынке wholesale market внутренний рынок (рынок, на котором продавцами и покупателями выступают дилеры за свой счет) world market мировой рынок world: market line-up расстановка сил в мире; world market мировой рынок; world trade международная торговля

1) Schule, die; (Amer.): (university, college) Hochschule, die; attrib. Schul-

2) attrib. Schul[aufsatz, -bus, -jahr, -system]

3) (disciples) Schule, die

4) (Brit.): (group of gamblers) Runde, die

(train) erziehen; dressieren [Pferd]

(of fish) Schwarm, der; Schule, die (Zool.)

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1) (a place for teaching especially children: She goes to the school; He's not at university - he's still at school; (American) He's still in school.) die Schule

2) (the pupils of a school: The behaviour of this school in public is sometimes not very good.) die Schüler (pl.)

3) (a series of meetings or a place for instruction etc: She runs a sewing school; a driving school.) die Schule

4) (a department of a university or college dealing with a particular subject: the School of Mathematics.) die Fakultät

5) ((American) a university or college.) die Hochschule

6) (a group of people with the same ideas etc: There are two schools of thought about the treatment of this disease.) die Schule

- academic.ru/64671/schoolbag">schoolbag

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I. n

1. (for children) Schule f

graduate/undergraduate \school AM hohe/niedrige Stufe innerhalb des Hochschulsystems

primary [or AM elementary] \school Grundschule f, Volksschule f ÖSTERR, Primarschule f SCHWEIZ

public \school AM staatliche Schule; BRIT Privatschule f

secondary \school ≈ weiterführende [o höhere] Schule, ≈ Hauptschule f ÖSTERR, ≈ Mittelschule f SCHWEIZ

vocational \school Berufsschule f

▪ to be in \school in der Schule sein

to attend [or go to] \school zur Schule gehen, die Schule besuchen

to begin [or start] \school eingeschult werden

to leave \school von der Schule [ab]gehen; (with diploma) die Schule beenden [o abschließen]

to teach \school AM [an der Schule] unterrichten

▪ to be at \school with sb mit jdm zusammen zur Schule gehen

2. (school premises) Schule f, Schulgebäude nt

3. no pl (activity) [Schul]unterricht m

\school starts at 9 am die Schule fängt um 9 Uhr morgens an

4. (pupils and staff)

the whole \school + sing vb die ganze Schule

5. AM ( fam: university) Universität f

6. (university division) Fakultät f; (smaller division) Institut nt, Seminar nt

7. (for learning one subject) Schule f

dancing/driving \school Tanz-/Fahrschule f

the \school of hard knocks ( fig) die Schule der bitteren Erfahrungen

the \school of life die Schule des Lebens fig

8. ART, PHILOS Schule f

the Impressionist \school of painting die Schule des Impressionismus

▶ to be one of the old \school von der alten Schule sein

▶ to tell tales out of \school aus der Schule plaudern

II. vt

▪ to \school sb

1. (educate) jdn erziehen

2. (train) jdn schulen

you must \school yourself to be tolerant du musst dich in Toleranz üben

her children are well \schooled in correct behaviour ihre Kinder wissen sich korrekt zu benehmen

to \school a dog einen Hund dressieren

III. n modifier (library, nurse, song) Schul-

\school cafeteria Schülercafeteria f

\school paper Schülerzeitung f

\school principal Schuldirektor(in) m(f), Rektor(in) m(f) SCHWEIZ

\school zone Schulgebiet nt

I. n ZOOL Schule f; (shoal) Schwarm m

\school of fish Fischschwarm m

II. vi ZOOL einen Schwarm bilden

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1. n

1) Schule f; (US = college, university) College nt, Universität f

2) (UNIV: department) Fachbereich m; (of medicine, law) Fakultät f

3) (= group of artists, philosophers etc) Schule f

2. vt

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school¹ [skuːl]

A s

1. Schule f (Institution):

at (US in) school auf oder in der Schule ( → A 4);

her children are still at school ihre Kinder gehen noch zur Schule;

school for the deaf Gehörlosenschule;

school of flying Fliegerschule;

school of motoring Fahrschule; → high school, etc

2. (meist ohne art) (Schul)Unterricht m, Schule f:

after school nach der Schule;

at (US in) school in der Schule;

go to school zur Schule gehen;

put to school einschulen;

there is no school today heute ist schulfrei; → tale 5

3. Schule f, Schulhaus n, -gebäude n

4. US Hochschule f

5. UNIV

a) Fakultät f, Fachbereich m

b) Institut n

6. Schools pl UNIV umg Schlussexamen n ( für den Grad eines Bachelor of Arts; in Oxford)

7. fig harte etc Schule:

8. MAL, PHIL etc Schule f:

other schools of opinion andere Meinungsrichtungen;

the Hegelian school PHIL die hegelianische Schule oder Richtung, die Hegelianer pl;

school of thought (geistige) Richtung;

there are different schools of thought on that darüber gehen die Meinungen auseinander; → old school

9. UNIV, HIST Hörsaal m

10. the Schools HIST die Scholastiker pl

11. SCHIFF, MIL

a) Exerziervorschrift f

b) Drill m

12. MUS Schule f:

a) Lehrbuch n

b) Lehre f, System n

B v/t

1. einschulen

2. schulen, ausbilden ( beide:

in dat):

schooled geschult, geübt

3. sein Temperament, seine Zunge etc zügeln, beherrschen

4. school o.s. (to) sich erziehen (zu), sich üben (in dat);

school o.s. to do sth lernen oder sich daran gewöhnen, etwas zu tun

5. ein Pferd dressieren

6. obs tadeln

school² [skuːl] s FISCH Schwarm m (auch fig), Schule f, Zug m (Wale etc)

sch. abk school

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1) Schule, die; (Amer.): (university, college) Hochschule, die; attrib. Schul-

2) attrib. Schul[aufsatz, -bus, -jahr, -system]

3) (disciples) Schule, die

4) (Brit.): (group of gamblers) Runde, die

(train) erziehen; dressieren [Pferd]

(of fish) Schwarm, der; Schule, die (Zool.)

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Lehranstalt f.

Schule -n f.

   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.

school [sku:l]

1 noun

(a) (educational establishment) école f, établissement m scolaire; (secondary school → to age 15) collège m; (→ 15 to 18) lycée m; (classes) école f, classe f, classes fpl, cours mpl;

∎ to go to school aller à l'école ou au collège ou au lycée;

∎ to be at or in school être à l'école ou en classe;

∎ to go back to school (after illness) reprendre l'école; (after holidays) rentrer;

∎ to send one's children to school envoyer ses enfants à l'école;

∎ parents have a duty to send their children to school les parents ont le devoir d'envoyer leurs enfants à l'école ou de scolariser leurs enfants;

∎ what are you going to do when you leave school? qu'est-ce que tu comptes faire quand tu auras quitté l'école ou fini ta scolarité?;

∎ I was at school with him j'étais en classe avec lui, c'était un de mes camarades de classe;

∎ he's still at school il va encore à l'école;

∎ to go skiing/sailing with the school ≃ aller en classe de neige/de mer;

∎ television for schools télévision f scolaire;

∎ there's no school today il n'y a pas (d')école ou il n'y a pas classe aujourd'hui;

∎ school starts at nine (primary) l'école ou la classe commence à neuf heures; (secondary) les cours commencent à neuf heures;

∎ school starts back next week c'est la rentrée (scolaire ou des classes) la semaine prochaine;

∎ see you after school on se voit après l'école ou la classe;

∎ the whole school is or are invited toute l'école est invitée;

∎ figurative the school of life l'école f de la vie;

∎ I went to the school of hard knocks j'ai été à rude école

(b) (institute) école f, académie f

(c) University (department) département m, institut m; (faculty) faculté f; (college) collège m; American (university) université f;

∎ London School of Economics = institut d'études économiques de l'université de Londres;

∎ she's at law school elle fait des études de droit, elle fait son droit

(d) (of art, literature) école f;

∎ figurative a doctor of the old school un médecin de la vieille école ou de la vieille garde;

∎ the Florentine/classical school l'école florentine/classique

(e) (training session) stage m;

∎ a two-day school for doctors un stage de deux jours pour les médecins

(f) (in Oxford and Cambridge)

∎ schools (examination hall) salle f d'examens; (examinations) examens mpl de la licence

(g) History

∎ the Schools l'École f, la scolastique

(h) (of fish, porpoises) banc m

2 compound-forming noun

(trip, doctor) scolaire;

∎ I'm not allowed to stay up late on school nights je n'ai pas le droit de me coucher tard quand il y a école le lendemain;

∎ British to do the school run emmener les enfants à l'école (à tour de rôle)

3 transitive verb

(a) (train → person) entraîner; (→ animal) dresser;

∎ to be schooled in monetary/military matters être rompu aux questions monétaires/militaires;

∎ she schooled herself to listen to what others said elle a appris à écouter (ce que disent) les autres;

∎ she is well schooled in diplomacy elle a une bonne formation diplomatique

(b) (send to school) envoyer à l'école, scolariser

►► school age âge m scolaire;

school attendance (going to school) scolarisation f; (not being absent) présence f à l'école;

school board conseil m d'établissement;

Radio & Television schools broadcasting émissions fpl scolaires;

school buildings bâtiments mpl scolaires;

school bus car m de ramassage scolaire;

school of dance, dancing school académie f ou école f de danse;

school day journée f scolaire ou d'école;

school dinners repas mpl servis à la cantine (de l'école);

school district = aux États-Unis, autorité locale décisionnaire dans le domaine de l'enseignement primaire et secondaire;

school fees frais mpl de scolarité;

school friend camarade mf de classe ou d'école, familiar copain (copine) m,f de classe ou d'école;

British school governor membre m du conseil de gestion de l'école;

school holiday jour m de congé scolaire;

∎ tomorrow is a school holiday il n'y a pas école ou classe ou cours demain;

∎ during the school holidays pendant les vacances ou congés scolaires;

school hours heures fpl de classe ou d'école;

∎ in school hours pendant les heures de classe;

∎ out of school hours en dehors des heures de classe;

school magazine journal m de l'école;

school of medicine faculté f de médecine;

school milk = lait offert aux élèves dans le primaire;

school of motoring auto-école f, école f de conduite;

school of music (gen) école f de musique; (superior level) conservatoire m;

school report bulletin m scolaire;

school of thought école f de pensée; figurative théorie f;

∎ one school of thought argues that this is due to genetic factors il existe une théorie selon laquelle ceci a une origine génétique;

school tie = cravate propre à une école et faisant partie de l'uniforme;

school uniform uniforme m scolaire;

school year année f scolaire;

∎ my school years ma scolarité, mes années fpl d'école;

∎ the school year runs from September to July l'année scolaire dure de septembre à juillet

✾ Play 'The School for Scandal' Sheridan 'L'École de la médisance'

1) (a place for teaching especially children: She goes to the school; He's not at university - he's still at school; (American) He's still in school.) šola

2) (the pupils of a school: The behaviour of this school in public is sometimes not very good.) šola

3) (a series of meetings or a place for instruction etc: She runs a sewing school; a driving school.) tečaj

4) (a department of a university or college dealing with a particular subject: the School of Mathematics.) oddelek

5) ((American) a university or college.) fakulteta

6) (a group of people with the same ideas etc: There are two schools of thought about the treatment of this disease.) šola

- schoolbag

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šola (tudi figuratively), pouk, čas pouka; kurz, tečaj, šolanje; vzgoja; učenci; šolsko poslopje, učilnica, predavalnica; študijska skupina na fakulteti; dvorana za izpraševanje na univerzi; plural univerze v kolektivnem smislu; sholastiki, sholastika; privrženci, učenci, šola (slikarska itd.); slang tolpa, banda; osebe, ki sodelujejo v kaki hazardni igri

board school — javna osnovna šola, ki jo upravlja krajevni šolski odbor

boarding school — šola z internatom

a boy just from school — deček, ki je pravkar končal šolanje

boys' school, girls' school — deška, dekliška šola

continuation school — nadaljevalna šola, šola za odrasle

elementary school, primary school — osnovna šola

free school — šola, v kateri se ne plača šolnina

grammar school — klasična gimnazija, srednja šola

the medical school — medicinska fakulteta

piano school — klavirska šola (metoda)

public school — zasebna šola, ki pripravlja učence za univerzo

ragged school — brezplačna šola za revne otroke

secondary school — srednja šola

a severe school — stroga, trda šola

technical school — strokovna šola

to attend a school — obiskovati (neko) šolo

to be at school — biti v šoli (pri pouku)

there is no school on Thursday afternoon — v četrtkih popoldne ni šole (pouka)

school is over at five — pouk se konča ob petih

to go to school — iti, hoditi v šolo; šolati se

to go to school to s.o. — iti v šolo h komu

to be in for one's schools — iti na zaključni izpit

to be sitting for one's schools — lotiti se izpitov

to leave school — zapustiti šolo, končati šolanje

to keep a school — voditi zasebno šolo

to tell tales out of school figuratively izblekniti, izdati tajnost;

šolski; history sholastičen

school theology — sholastična teologija

poslati, dati v šolo; šolati; poučevati, vaditi, uriti, vežbati, naučiti, priučiti; figuratively (po)učiti, dajati nauke; dresirati; vzgajati, vzgojiti; (po)karati, brzdati, obvladati, disciplinirati, navaditi na disciplino, na red

to be well schooled in — biti dobro šolan v, izučen v (za)

to school o.s. — krotiti se, obvlad(ov)ati se

to school o.s. to s.th. (to patience) — navaditi se na kaj (na potrpljenje)

to school one's temper — obvladati se (svojo jezo)

truma (vlak) rib (kitov);

plavati, iti v trumah, v vlakih (o ribah)

to school up — (o ribah) zbrati se v trumah pod vodno površino

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1) (a place for teaching especially children: She goes to the school; He's not at university - he's still at school; (American) He's still in school.) szkoła

2) (the pupils of a school: The behaviour of this school in public is sometimes not very good.) szkoła

3) (a series of meetings or a place for instruction etc: She runs a sewing school; a driving school.) kurs

4) (a department of a university or college dealing with a particular subject: the School of Mathematics.) wydział, instytut

5) ((American) a university or college.) wyższa szkoła

6) (a group of people with the same ideas etc: There are two schools of thought about the treatment of this disease.) szkoła

- schoolbag

вал, насыпь;
дамба - to dig up a * of earth возвести земляной вал крутой склон берег (реки, озера) отмель, банка, риф - oyster * устричная отмель /банка/ - fisheries * (специальное) рыбная банка - ice * ледяное поле нанос, занос - snow *s сугробы, снежные заносы - the * of clouds spelled rain гряда облаков предвещала дождь - we ran into a * of fog мы попали в полосу тумана борт бильярдного стола (авиация) крен, вираж (горное) забой;
залежь - * of ore пластообразная рудная залежь (горное) уступ( горное) устье шахты сгребать в кучу;
наваливать - to * snow сгребать снег в кучи - the chairs were *ed one upon the other стулья взгромоздили один на другой делать насыпь;
окружать валом, насыпью - to * in окапываться громоздиться, вздыматься - clouds are *ing along the horizon облака скучились на горизонте;
горизонт затянут облаками запруживать окружать, окаймлять - the river is *ed high on both sides река заключена в крутые берега прикрывать (костер) валежником (чтобы он горел спокойно и долго) (авиация) делать вираж;
накреняться сесть на мель (гребля) (сленг) играть шара от борта (бильярд) банк - B. of England, the B. Английский банк (государственный банк Великобритании) - branch * отделение банка - * of issue /of circulation/ эмиссионный банк - to keep an account at a * иметь счет в банке - to keep an account with the National B. иметь счет в государственном банке копилка - father gave her a quarter for her piggy * отец дал ей двадцать пять центов (положить) в копилку (историческое) лавка ростовщика;
стол или лавка менялы фонд;
общий запас;
резерв - blood * запас /банк/ крови (для переливания) ;
донорский пункт - cornea * запас роговицы( для пересадки) банк (в азартных играх) - to keep the * держать банк - to break the * сорвать банк > he is as safe as a * он вполне надужный человек > in the * в убытке > three discount houses were in the * for a small amount три учетные конторы понесли небольшой убыток > to keep smth. in * держать что-л. про запас > you can't put it in the * (американизм) из спасиба шубу не сошьешь класть деньги в банк;
держать, иметь деньги в банке или сберкассе - to * at /with/ the B. of England держать деньги в Английском банке;
(финансовое) вести дела с Английским банком владеть банком, быть банкиром;
заниматься банковским делом превращать (имущество) в деньги - to * an estate продать имение метать банк (в картах и т. п.) (on, upon) (разговорное) рассчитывать, полагаться - to * on /upon/ smb.'s support рассчитывать на чью-л. поддержку - I was *ing on his honesty when I closed the deal я полагался на его честность, когда заключал сделку - you can * on it being true можете быть уверены - это правда преим. (специальное) рад, комплект, набор;
серия - * of cylinders блок цилиндров - * of boilers батарея котлов - * of needles( текстильное) ряд игл;
игольница - * of sieves набор сит - * of lamps (кинематографический) осветительный агрегат - * of keys клавиатура( пишущей машинки, линотипа, органа и т. п.) (устаревшее) скамья (на галере и т. п.) (устаревшее) суд;
судебное присутствие верстак (полиграфия) подзаголовок( специальное) группировать для совместной работы;
комплектовать - the electric lamps were *ed in rows of ten электролампы были сгруппированы по десять в ряд

accepting ~ банк-акцептант

advising ~ банк-консультант

agency ~ банк-посредник

agent ~ банк-агент

bank карт. банк;
to break the bank сорвать банк ~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ банк ~ банкирский дом ~ берег (особ. реки) ~ быть банкиром ~ быть банкиром ~ вал, насыпь ~ ист. верстак (в некоторых ремеслах) ~ владеть банком ~ вносить деньги в банк ~ тех. группа( баллонов, трансформаторов и т. п.) ~ вчт. группа устройств ~ ав. делать вираж;
накреняться ~ делать насыпь ~ держать деньги в банке ~ горн. залежь, пласт (руды, угля в открытых разработках) ~ заниматься банковским делом ~ запас ~ запруживать ~ играть шара от борта, бортов (на бильярде) ~ касса ~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа ~ класть (деньги) в банк;
держать (деньги) в банке;
откладывать ~ кредитное учреждение ~ ав. крен ~ место хранения запасов ~ карт. метать банк;
to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ карт. метать банк;
to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ нанос;
занос;
bank of snow снежный занос;
сугроб;
bank of clouds гряда облаков ~ образовать наносы( о песке, снеге;
часто bank up) ~ отмель, банка ~ полный состав суда ~ ист. ряд весел (на галере) ~ сгребать (в кучу), наваливать;
окружать валом ~ ист. скамья (на галере) ~ суд ~ судейская скамья ~ фонд Bank: Bank: World ~ Международный банк реконструкции и развития

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

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

~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало

~ нанос;
занос;
bank of snow снежный занос;
сугроб;
bank of clouds гряда облаков

~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ of issue эмиссионный банк

~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа

~ нанос;
занос;
bank of snow снежный занос;
сугроб;
bank of clouds гряда облаков

blood ~ донорский пункт blood ~ запас консервированной крови и плазмы для переливания blood ~ запасы консервированной крови для переливания blood ~ хранилище консервированной крови и плазмы

bank карт. банк;
to break the bank сорвать банк

central ~ центральный банк

chartered ~ банк, созданный на основе королевского декрета (Великобритания) chartered ~ банк, созданный на основе Закона о банках (Канада)

clearing ~ банк - член расчетной палаты clearing ~ клиринговый банк

commercial ~ коммерческий банк

consortium ~ консорциальный банк

cooperative ~ кооперативный банк

cooperative credit ~ кооперативный кредитный банк

cooperative savings ~ кооперативный сберегательный банк

correspondent ~ (амер.) банк-корреспондент correspondent ~ банк-корреспондент

credit ~ кредитный банк

data ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ банк данных data ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ вчт. информационный банк data ~ вчт. хранилище данных

development ~ банк развития

district ~ окружной банк district ~ районный банк

domestic ~ внутренний банк domestic ~ местный банк domestic ~ отечественный банк

drawee ~ банк, на который выписан чек drawee ~ банк-трассат

federally chartered ~ федеральный коммерческий банк

foreign ~ иностранный банк

full-service ~ универсальный банк

giro ~ жиробанк

investment ~ инвестиционный банк

issuing ~ банк-эмитент

joint-stock ~ акционерный коммерческий банк

leading ~ ведущий банк leading ~ головной банк

learning element ~ банк учебных материалов;
собрание учебных материалов

lending ~ кредитный банк lending ~ ссудный банк

loan ~ кредитный банк loan ~ ссудный банк

major ~ крупный банк

member ~ банк - член Федеральной резервной системы

memory ~ вчт. банк памяти

merchant ~ коммерческий банк merchant ~ торговый банк

mobile ~ передвижной банк

money-center ~ банк, наиболее активно оперирующий на денежном рынке money-center ~ банк в ведущем финансовом центре

mortgage ~ ипотечный банк

mutual savings ~ взаимно-сберегательный банк (США)

national ~ национальный банк national: ~ государственный;
national anthem государственный гимн;
national bank государственный банк;
national park амер. заповедник;
национальный парк

nationwide ~ государственный банк

note issuing ~ эмиссионнный банк

~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке

opening ~ банк, выдающий аккредитив

parent ~ банк, владеющий контрольным пакетом акций другого банка parent ~ родительский банк

paying ~ банк-плательщик

piggy ~ копилка

post office ~ почтово-сберегательный банк

postal savings ~ почтово-сберегательный банк

prime ~ основной банк

principal ~ основной банк

private ~ неакционерный банк private ~ семейный банк private ~ частный банк private ~ частный банкирский дом

private credit ~ частный кредитный банк

provincial ~ провинциальный банк

public ~ государственный банк

public savings ~ государственный сберегательный банк

regional ~ региональный банк

retail ~ розничный банк

satellite ~ банк-спутник

savings ~ сберегательный банк

secondary ~ второстепенный банк

security deposit ~ банк, принимающий на хранение ценные бумаги

state ~ государственный банк

subsidiary ~ филиал банка

syndicated ~ банковский консорциум

term ~ банк терминов

trustee savings ~ доверительно-сберегательный банк (Великобритания)

universal ~ универсальный банк

~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало

1) аккумулятор; (аккумуляторная) батарея

2) группа или совокупность( одинаковых) устройств; комплект; батарея

3) строит. подмости; полок

4) взрывная машинка

1) камера; отсек; отделение || помещать в камеру || камерный

2) камера, полость

3) комната

4) мн. ч. англ. квартира