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taxes and rates

  • 1 taxes

    back taxes задолженность по выплате налогов back taxes недоимки direct and indirect taxes прямые и косвенные налоги exempt from taxes освобожденный от налогов exemption from taxes освобождение от налогов impose taxes облагать налогами imputed taxes налог. расчетные налоги imputed taxes условно начисленные налоги indirect taxes косвенные налоги levy taxes взимать налоги levy taxes облагать налогами oppressive taxes обременительные налоги pay taxes платить налоги raise taxes собирать налоги rates and taxes коммунальные и государственные налоги recurrent taxes постоянные налоги taxes: taxes on income подоходные налоги taxes: taxes on income подоходные налоги

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  • 2 rates and taxes

    crippling taxes — непомерные налоги; разорительные налоги

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  • 3 taxes

    pl от taxis back ~ задолженность по выплате налогов back ~ недоимки direct and indirect ~ прямые и косвенные налоги exempt from ~ освобожденный от налогов exemption from ~ освобождение от налогов impose ~ облагать налогами imputed ~ налог. расчетные налоги imputed ~ условно начисленные налоги indirect ~ косвенные налоги levy ~ взимать налоги levy ~ облагать налогами oppressive ~ обременительные налоги pay ~ платить налоги raise ~ собирать налоги rates and ~ коммунальные и государственные налоги recurrent ~ постоянные налоги taxes: ~ on income подоходные налоги taxes: ~ on income подоходные налоги

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > taxes

  • 4 rates and taxes

    коммунальные и государственные налоги

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  • 5 rates and taxes

    коммунальные и государственные налоги

    Англо-русский словарь экономических терминов > rates and taxes

  • 6 rates and taxes

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  • 7 rates and taxes

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  • 8 Rates and taxes

    UK ضرائب ورسوم

    English-Arabic economic glossary > Rates and taxes

  • 9 rates and taxes

    عوارض‌ وماليات‌

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  • 10 rates and taxes

    брит.

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  • 11 rates\ and\ taxes

    községi és állami adók

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  • 12 rate

    reit 1. noun
    1) (the number of occasions within a given period of time when something happens or is done: a high (monthly) accident rate in a factory.) prosent, tall, hyppighet
    2) (the number or amount of something (in relation to something else); a ratio: There was a failure rate of one pupil in ten in the exam.) hyppighet
    3) (the speed with which something happens or is done: He works at a tremendous rate; the rate of increase/expansion.) tempo, fart
    4) (the level (of pay), cost etc (of or for something): What is the rate of pay for this job?) takst, sats
    5) ((usually in plural) a tax, especially, in United Kingdom, paid by house-owners etc to help with the running of their town etc.) kommuneskatt
    2. verb
    (to estimate or be estimated, with regard to worth, merit, value etc: I don't rate this book very highly; He doesn't rate very highly as a dramatist in my estimation.) vurdere, anslå, regnes
    - at this
    - at that rate
    - rate of exchange
    anslå
    --------
    rate
    --------
    taksere
    --------
    takst
    --------
    vurdere
    I
    subst. \/reɪt\/
    1) hastighet(sgrad), fart, takt, tempo
    • at the rate he goes on, it will not take long
    slik han holder på, vil det ikke ta lang tid
    2) antall per tidsenhet, frekvens, hyppighet, -prosent, -tall, -verdi
    3) sats, takst, tariff
    4) ( handel) kurs
    5) pris, beløp, kostnad, verdi
    6) klasse, rang (spesielt militærvesen), (fartøys)klasse
    at a certain rate til en viss grad, i et visst monn
    at a furious rate i rasende fart
    at a great rate i høy grad, i stor skala til en gunstig pris i høy hastighet, i rask takt
    at a high rate til høy pris med høy forekomst i høy hastighet, i full fart, i rask takt
    at an easy rate ( om hastighet) i et makelig tempo ( om pris) til en billig penge ( om skatt) med lav prosentsats
    at any rate i alle fall, i hvert fall, under alle omstendigheter
    at a\/the rate of med en hastighet på
    • they were driving at a\/the rate of 70 kilometres an hour
    med en pris på med et antall på
    at that rate (overført, hverdagslig) i så fall
    at this rate (overført, hverdagslig) hvis det fortsetter på denne måten, på dette viset
    rate of climb ( luftfart) stigningshastighet
    rate of exchange valutakurs, vekslingskurs
    rate of fire ( militærvesen) skuddhastighet
    rate of flow strømningshastighet, strømningsmengde
    rate of inflation inflasjonstakt
    rate of interest rentefot, rentesats, rente
    rate of wages\/salaries lønnssats, lønnsnivå
    rates kommuneskatt(er) eller avdrag
    taxes and rates kommune- og statsskatter
    II
    verb \/reɪt\/
    1) vurdere, anslå, sette, taksere
    • what do you rate his fortune at?
    • rate a loss at £100
    2) ligne, taksere, anslå verdi (for å fastslå eiendomsskatt)
    3) regne, betrakte, anse
    4) klassifisere, gradere (også militærvesen)
    5) justere, regulere
    6) (amer.) være berettiget til, være kvalifisert for, ha (tilstrekkelige) kvalifikasjoner for, fortjene, være verdt
    7) (amer.) bli regnet med, komme i betraktning, regnes for noe, telle med
    8) bruke seg på, skjelle ut, lekse ordentlig opp for
    9) ( forsikring) tariffere, tariffeste
    rate at taksere til
    rate up ( forsikring) sette i en høyere tariffklasse

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  • 13 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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    1. present participle - cutting; verb
    1) (to make an opening in, usually with something with a sharp edge: He cut the paper with a pair of scissors.) cortar
    2) (to separate or divide by cutting: She cut a slice of bread; The child cut out the pictures; She cut up the meat into small pieces.) cortar
    3) (to make by cutting: She cut a hole in the cloth.) cortar, hacer
    4) (to shorten by cutting; to trim: to cut hair; I'll cut the grass.) cortar
    5) (to reduce: They cut my wages by ten per cent.) reducir, recortar
    6) (to remove: They cut several passages from the film.) cortar, suprimir
    7) (to wound or hurt by breaking the skin (of): I cut my hand on a piece of glass.) cortar
    8) (to divide (a pack of cards).) cortar
    9) (to stop: When the actress said the wrong words, the director ordered `Cut!') cortar
    10) (to take a short route or way: He cut through/across the park on his way to the office; A van cut in in front of me on the motorway.) cortar (por)
    11) (to meet and cross (a line or geometrical figure): An axis cuts a circle in two places.) cortar
    12) (to stay away from (a class, lecture etc): He cut school and went to the cinema.) saltarse
    13) ((also cut dead) to ignore completely: She cut me dead in the High Street.) ignorar, hacer como si no viera

    2. noun
    1) (the result of an act of cutting: a cut on the head; a power-cut (= stoppage of electrical power); a haircut; a cut in prices.) corte
    2) (the way in which something is tailored, fashioned etc: the cut of the jacket.) corte
    3) (a piece of meat cut from an animal: a cut of beef.) corte, trozo
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    - cutting
    3. adjective
    (insulting or offending: a cutting remark.) cortante
    - cut-price
    - cut-throat
    4. adjective
    (fierce; ruthless: cut-throat business competition.) feroz, encarnizado, despiadado
    - cut and dried
    - cut back
    - cut both ways
    - cut a dash
    - cut down
    - cut in
    - cut it fine
    - cut no ice
    - cut off
    - cut one's losses
    - cut one's teeth
    - cut out
    - cut short
    cut1 n corte
    cut2 vb cortar
    tr[kʌt]
    transitive verb (pt & pp cut, ger cutting)
    1 (gen) cortar; (stone, glass) tallar; (record) grabar; (key, hole) hacer
    2 (divide) cortar, partir, dividir
    3 (reduce - level, number) reducir; (- budget, spending) recortar; (- price) rebajar, reducir
    ■ the firm cut the workforce by 50% la empresa redujo la plantilla en un 50%
    4 (shorten) acortar; (remove) cortar; (edit) editar; (censor) hacer cortes en, censurar
    5 (hurt feelings of, cause pain) herir
    6 (adulterate) mezclar, cortar
    1 (knife, scissors) cortar
    2 (of food) cortarse
    3 SMALLCINEMA/SMALL cortar
    ■ cut! ¡corten!
    1 (wound, incision) corte nombre masculino; (deep cut) tajo; (knife wound) cuchillada
    3 (share) parte nombre femenino, tajada
    4 (reduction - in budget, services, wages) recorte nombre masculino; (- in level, number, price) reducción nombre femenino
    ■ fight the cuts! ¡luchad contra los recortes!
    5 (deletion, removal) corte nombre masculino; (part deleted) trozo omitido
    6 SMALLELECTRICITY/SMALL corte nombre masculino, apagón nombre masculino
    7 (of hair, garment) corte nombre masculino
    1 (flowers) cortado,-a; (glass) tallado,-a
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    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    cut the crap! ¡corta el rollo!
    to be a cut above somebody/something ser superior a alguien/algo
    to be cut out for something estar hecho,-a para algo
    to be cut up about something estar disgustado por algo, estar afectado,-a por algo
    to cut a long story short en resumidas cuentas
    to cut a tooth salirle un diente a uno
    to cut both/two ways ser de doble filo
    to cut classes/school/lessons hacer novillos
    to cut one's hair cortarse el pelo (uno,-a mismo,-a)
    to cut it fine llegar con el tiempo justo, dejar poco margen
    to cut no ice (with somebody) no convencer (a alguien)
    to cut off one's nose to spite one's face tirar piedras sobre su tejado
    to cut one's losses reducir las pérdidas
    to cut somebody dead desairar a alguien, volverle la cara a alguien
    to cut somebody down in their prime segar la juventud de alguien
    to cut somebody down to size bajarle los humos a alguien
    to cut somebody loose/free soltar a alguien
    to cut something/somebody short interrumpir algo/a alguien, cortar algo/a alguien en seco
    to cut the ground from under somebody's feet echar por tierra los planes de alguien
    to have one's work cut out costarle a uno, tener que trabajar mucho
    the cut and thrust (of something) el toma y daca (de algo)
    cut ['kʌt] v, cut ; cutting vt
    1) : cortar
    to cut paper: cortar papel
    2) : cortarse
    to cut one's finger: cortarse uno el dedo
    3) trim: cortar, recortar
    to have one's hair cut: cortarse el pelo
    4) intersect: cruzar, atravesar
    5) shorten: acortar, abreviar
    6) reduce: reducir, rebajar
    to cut prices: rebajar los precios
    7)
    to cut one's teeth : salirle los dientes a uno
    cut vi
    1) : cortar, cortarse
    2)
    to cut in : entrometerse
    cut n
    1) : corte m
    a cut of meat: un corte de carne
    2) slash: tajo m, corte m, cortadura f
    3) reduction: rebaja f, reducción f
    a cut in the rates: una rebaja en las tarifas
    adj.
    • acuchillado, -a adj.
    • cortado, -a adj.
    • tajado, -a adj.
    • tallado, -a adj.
    n.
    • cortadura s.f.
    • corte s.m.
    • reducción s.f.
    • surco s.m.
    • tajo s.m.
    • talla s.f.
    • tijeretazo s.m.
    pret., p.p.
    (Preterito definido y participio pasivo de "to cut")
    cut (s.o.) off (In speech)
    expr.
    • cortarle el discurso a alguien expr.
    expr.
    • eliminar (algo) de su régimen expr.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: cut) = cortar v.
    • desmochar v.
    • grabar v.
    • incidir v.
    • partir v.
    • pelar v.
    • sajar v.
    • tajar v.
    • tallar v.
    • tijeretear v.
    • truncar v.
    • tusar v.
    v.
    • atusar (Pelo) v.

    I kʌt
    1)
    a) ( wound) tajo m, corte m
    b) ( incision) corte m
    2)
    a) ( reduction)

    to make cuts in essential services — hacer* recortes en los servicios esenciales

    b) (in text, film) corte m
    c) ( power cut) apagón m
    3)
    a) ( haircut) corte m de pelo
    b) ( of suit) corte m

    to be a cut above somebody/something — (colloq)

    4) ( of meat - type) corte m; (- piece) trozo m
    5) ( share) (colloq) tajada f (fam), parte f
    6) ( blow - with knife) cuchillada f

    cut and thrust: the cut and thrust of politics — el toma y daca de la vida política


    II
    1.
    (pres p cutting; past & past p cut) transitive verb
    1) \<\<wood/paper/wire/rope\>\> cortar

    to cut something/somebody loose — soltar* algo/a alguien

    to cut it fine — (colloq) calcular muy justo, dejar poco margen

    I cut my finger — me corté el dedo; see also short II 1)

    2)
    a) ( trim) \<\<hair/nails\>\> cortar; \<\<grass/corn\>\> cortar, segar*
    b) ( shape) \<\<glass/stone\>\> tallar; \<\<key\>\> hacer*
    3) ( excavate)

    to cut something (INTO something): a tunnel cut into the mountain — un túnel excavado en la montaña

    4) ( reduce) \<\<level/number\>\> reducir*; \<\<budget\>\> recortar; \<\<price/rate\>\> rebajar, reducir*; \<\<service/workforce\>\> hacer* recortes en
    5)
    a) ( shorten) \<\<text\>\> acortar
    b) ( remove) \<\<scene\>\> cortar
    c) \<\<film\>\> ( edit) editar; \<\<censors\>\> hacer* cortes en
    6) ( in cards) \<\<deck\>\> cortar
    7) (colloq) ( ignore)

    to cut somebody dead — dejar a alguien con el saludo en la boca

    8) (colloq)
    a) ( cease)
    b) ( switch off) \<\<engine/lights\>\> apagar*

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) \<\<knife/scissors\>\> cortar

    to cut INTO something: the rope cut into her wrists la cuerda le estaba cortando or lastimando las muñecas; to cut loose (colloq) ( break free) romper* las ataduras; ( lose restraint) (esp AmE): he cut loose with a string of insults — soltó una sarta de insultos

    b) \<\<words\>\> herir*

    her remarks cut deep — sus palabras lo (or la etc) hirieron en lo más vivo

    2) (Cin, Rad)
    3) ( in cards) cortar
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    III
    adjective (before n) < flowers> cortado; < glass> tallado
    [kʌt] (vb: pt, pp cut)
    1. N
    1) (in skin) corte m, cortadura f; (=wound) herida f; (Med) (=incision) corte m, incisión f; (=slash) tajo m; (with knife) cuchillada f; (with whip) latigazo m; (Cards) corte m

    he had a cut on his chin from shaving — se había hecho un corte or se había cortado en la barbilla al afeitarse

    to be a cut above sb —

    2) (=reduction) (in wages, prices, production) rebaja f, reducción f; (in expenditure, budget) corte m, recorte m; (in tax, interest rates) bajada f, rebaja f; (in staff, workforce) reducción f, recorte f; (=deletion) corte m; (=deleted part) trozo m suprimido; (Elec) apagón m, corte m

    public spending cuts — cortes mpl presupuestarios

    wage cuts — rebajas fpl de sueldo

    they made some cuts in the text — hicieron algunos cortes en el texto, suprimieron algunas cosas del texto

    3) [of clothes etc] corte m; [of hair] corte m, peinado m
    4) [of meat] (=part of animal) corte m (de carne); (=piece) trozo m; (=slice) tajada f
    5) * (=share) parte f, tajada f

    the salesman gets a cut of 5% — el vendedor recibe su parte de 5%

    6) (=woodcut) grabado m; (US) foto f, diagrama m, dibujo m
    7)

    cut and paste — (Comput) cortar y pegar

    8) see short 5.
    2. VT
    1) [+ meat, bread, cards] cortar

    • to cut one's finger — cortarse el dedo

    • to cut sb free — (from wreckage) liberar a algn; (when tied up) desatar or soltar a algn

    • to cut sth in half — cortar algo por la mitad

    • to cut sth open — [+ fruit, vegetable, body, package] abrir algo

    • to cut sth (in)to pieces — cortar algo en pedazos

    • to cut sth to size — cortar algo a la medida

    • to cut sb's throat — degollar a algn

    he is cutting his own throat — (fig) labra su propia ruina

    • to cut sth in two — cortar or partir algo en dos

    fine I, 2., 2), ice 1., 1), loss 1., 2), tooth 1., 1)
    2) (=shape) [+ stone, glass, jewel] tallar; [+ key, hole] hacer; [+ channel] abrir, excavar; [+ engraving, record] grabar
    coat 1., 1)
    3) (=clip, trim) [+ hedge, grass] cortar; [+ corn, hay] segar
    4) (=reduce) [+ wages, prices, production] reducir, rebajar (by 5% en un 5 por cien); [+ expenditure] reducir, recortar; [+ taxes, interest rates] bajar, rebajar; [+ staff, workforce] reducir, recortar; [+ speech, text] acortar, hacer cortes en; [+ film] cortar, hacer cortes en; (=delete) [+ passage] suprimir, cortar; (=interrupt) interrumpir, cortar

    she cut two seconds off the record — mejoró or rebajó la plusmarca en dos segundos

    • to cut sth/sb short — interrumpir algo/a algn

    corner 1., 1)
    5) (fig) (=hurt) herir

    to cut sb to the quick —

    6) (=intersect with) [road] cruzar, atravesar; (Math) [line] cortar
    7) (esp US)
    *

    • to cut classes — hacer novillos *, ausentarse de clase

    • to cut sb dead — negar el saludo or (LAm) cortar a algn

    8) (=turn off) [+ engine] parar; (=stop) [+ electricity supply] cortar, interrumpir
    9) (=adulterate) [+ cocaine etc] cortar
    10) (=succeed)
    3. VI
    1) [person, knife] cortar; [material] cortarse

    • she cut into the melon — cortó el melón

    will that cake cut into six? — ¿se puede dividir el pastel en seis?

    - cut loose
    2) (Math etc) [lines] cortarse
    3) (=hurry)
    - cut and run
    - cut to the chase
    4) (Cine, TV) (=change scene) cortar y pasar

    cut! — ¡corten!

    5) (Cards) cortar
    4.
    ADJ [flowers] cortado; [glass] tallado

    cut price — a precio reducido, rebajado, de rebaja

    5.
    CPD

    cut and blow-dry N — corte m y secado con secador

    * * *

    I [kʌt]
    1)
    a) ( wound) tajo m, corte m
    b) ( incision) corte m
    2)
    a) ( reduction)

    to make cuts in essential services — hacer* recortes en los servicios esenciales

    b) (in text, film) corte m
    c) ( power cut) apagón m
    3)
    a) ( haircut) corte m de pelo
    b) ( of suit) corte m

    to be a cut above somebody/something — (colloq)

    4) ( of meat - type) corte m; (- piece) trozo m
    5) ( share) (colloq) tajada f (fam), parte f
    6) ( blow - with knife) cuchillada f

    cut and thrust: the cut and thrust of politics — el toma y daca de la vida política


    II
    1.
    (pres p cutting; past & past p cut) transitive verb
    1) \<\<wood/paper/wire/rope\>\> cortar

    to cut something/somebody loose — soltar* algo/a alguien

    to cut it fine — (colloq) calcular muy justo, dejar poco margen

    I cut my finger — me corté el dedo; see also short II 1)

    2)
    a) ( trim) \<\<hair/nails\>\> cortar; \<\<grass/corn\>\> cortar, segar*
    b) ( shape) \<\<glass/stone\>\> tallar; \<\<key\>\> hacer*
    3) ( excavate)

    to cut something (INTO something): a tunnel cut into the mountain — un túnel excavado en la montaña

    4) ( reduce) \<\<level/number\>\> reducir*; \<\<budget\>\> recortar; \<\<price/rate\>\> rebajar, reducir*; \<\<service/workforce\>\> hacer* recortes en
    5)
    a) ( shorten) \<\<text\>\> acortar
    b) ( remove) \<\<scene\>\> cortar
    c) \<\<film\>\> ( edit) editar; \<\<censors\>\> hacer* cortes en
    6) ( in cards) \<\<deck\>\> cortar
    7) (colloq) ( ignore)

    to cut somebody dead — dejar a alguien con el saludo en la boca

    8) (colloq)
    a) ( cease)
    b) ( switch off) \<\<engine/lights\>\> apagar*

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) \<\<knife/scissors\>\> cortar

    to cut INTO something: the rope cut into her wrists la cuerda le estaba cortando or lastimando las muñecas; to cut loose (colloq) ( break free) romper* las ataduras; ( lose restraint) (esp AmE): he cut loose with a string of insults — soltó una sarta de insultos

    b) \<\<words\>\> herir*

    her remarks cut deep — sus palabras lo (or la etc) hirieron en lo más vivo

    2) (Cin, Rad)
    3) ( in cards) cortar
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    III
    adjective (before n) < flowers> cortado; < glass> tallado

    English-spanish dictionary > cut

  • 15 rate-of-return regulation

    1. регулирование по методу нормы прибыли

     

    регулирование по методу нормы прибыли
    RoRR
    Метод установления тарифных ставок коммунальной распределительной компании. При RoRR, коммунальным предприятиям разрешается возмещать свои операционные расходы, налоги и износ, а также им дается возможность получать разумную норму прибыли по используемым активам (т.е. тарифной базе) при предоставлении услуг своим потребителям.
    [Англо-русский глосcарий энергетических терминов ERRA]

    EN

    rate-of-return regulation | RoRR
    A method of setting a utility distribution company's rates. Under RoRR utilities are allowed to recover their operating expenses, taxes and depreciation, plus are provided the opportunity to earn a fair rate of return on the assets utilized (i.e. rate base) in providing service to their customers.
    [Англо-русский глосcарий энергетических терминов ERRA]

    Тематики

    Синонимы

    EN

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > rate-of-return regulation

  • 16 RoRR

    1. регулирование по методу нормы прибыли

     

    регулирование по методу нормы прибыли
    RoRR
    Метод установления тарифных ставок коммунальной распределительной компании. При RoRR, коммунальным предприятиям разрешается возмещать свои операционные расходы, налоги и износ, а также им дается возможность получать разумную норму прибыли по используемым активам (т.е. тарифной базе) при предоставлении услуг своим потребителям.
    [Англо-русский глосcарий энергетических терминов ERRA]

    EN

    rate-of-return regulation | RoRR
    A method of setting a utility distribution company's rates. Under RoRR utilities are allowed to recover their operating expenses, taxes and depreciation, plus are provided the opportunity to earn a fair rate of return on the assets utilized (i.e. rate base) in providing service to their customers.
    [Англо-русский глосcарий энергетических терминов ERRA]

    Тематики

    Синонимы

    EN

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > RoRR

  • 17 rate

    1. noun
    1) (proportion) Rate, die

    increase at a rate of 50 a week — [um] 50 pro Woche anwachsen

    rate of inflation/absentee rate — Inflations-/Abwesenheitsrate, die

    2) (tariff) Satz, der

    interest/ taxation rate, rate of interest/taxation — Zins-/Steuersatz, der

    3) (amount of money) Gebühr, die

    rate [of pay] — Lohnsatz, der

    letter/parcel rate — Briefporto, das/Paketgebühr, die

    4) (speed) Geschwindigkeit, die; Tempo, das

    at a or the rate of 50 mph — mit [einer Geschwindigkeit von] 80 km/h

    at a good/fast/dangerous rate — zügig/mit hoher Geschwindigkeit/gefährlich schnell

    5) (Brit.): (local authority levy)

    [local or council] rates — Gemeindeabgaben

    6) (coll.)

    at any rate — (at least) zumindest; wenigstens; (whatever happens) auf jeden Fall

    at this rate we won't get any work done — so kriegen wir gar nichts fertig (ugs.)

    at the rate you're going,... — (fig.) wenn du so weitermachst,...

    2. transitive verb
    1) (estimate worth of) schätzen [Vermögen]; einschätzen [Intelligenz, Leistung, Fähigkeit]

    rate somebody/something highly — jemanden/etwas hoch einschätzen

    2) (consider) betrachten; rechnen ( among zu)

    be rated the top tennis player in Europe — als der beste Tennisspieler Europas gelten

    3) (Brit.): (value)

    the house is rated at £100 a year — die Grundlage für die Berechnung der Gemeindeabgaben für das Haus beträgt 100 Pfund pro Jahr

    4) (merit) verdienen [Auszeichnung, Erwähnung]
    3. intransitive verb
    * * *
    [reit] 1. noun
    1) (the number of occasions within a given period of time when something happens or is done: a high (monthly) accident rate in a factory.) die Rate
    2) (the number or amount of something (in relation to something else); a ratio: There was a failure rate of one pupil in ten in the exam.) die Quote
    3) (the speed with which something happens or is done: He works at a tremendous rate; the rate of increase/expansion.) die Geschwindigkeit
    4) (the level (of pay), cost etc (of or for something): What is the rate of pay for this job?) der Satz
    2. verb
    (to estimate or be estimated, with regard to worth, merit, value etc: I don't rate this book very highly; He doesn't rate very highly as a dramatist in my estimation.) einschätzen, gelten als
    - academic.ru/60358/rating">rating
    - at this
    - at that rate
    - rate of exchange
    * * *
    [reɪt]
    I. n
    1. (speed) Geschwindigkeit f
    at a fast/slow \rate schnell/langsam
    at a tremendous \rate rasend schnell
    at one's own \rate in seinem eigenen Rhythmus [o Tempo]
    \rate of fall PHYS Fallgeschwindigkeit f
    \rate of flow TECH Durchflussmenge f
    \rate of growth Wachstumsrate f
    2. (measure) Maß nt, Menge f
    in the winter months there is usually a rise in the \rate of absenteeism in den Wintermonaten kommt es gewöhnlich zu einer Zunahme der Ausfälle
    growth/inflation \rate Wachstums-/Inflationsrate f
    mortality \rate Sterblichkeitsrate f, Sterblichkeitsziffer f
    unemployment \rate Arbeitslosenrate f, Arbeitslosenzahlen pl
    3. (payment) Satz m
    we agreed a \rate with the painter before he started work wir haben einen Stundensatz mit dem Maler vereinbart, bevor er mit der Arbeit begann
    the going \rate die übliche Bezahlung
    4. (premium payable) Zinssatz m; (excise payable) Steuersatz m
    fixed/variable \rate fester/variabler Zinssatz
    high/low \rate of interest/taxation [or interest/taxation \rate] hoher/niedriger Zins-/Steuersatz
    interest \rates have risen again die Zinsen sind wieder gestiegen
    the country has a high taxation \rate in dem Land sind die Steuern sehr hoch
    5. FIN (amount of interest paid) Rate f
    \rate of return Rendite f
    6. FIN (value of a currency) Kurs m, Wechselkurs m
    exchange \rate [or \rate of exchange] Wechselkurs m
    to calculate costs on a fixed exchange \rate die Kosten berechnen anhand eines festen Wechselkurses
    cross \rate Kreuzkurs m
    forward \rate Devisenterminkurs m
    managed \rate FIN kontrollierter Kurs
    seller's \rate Verkaufskurs m
    7. BRIT, AUS ( dated: local tax)
    ▪ \rates pl Haus- und Grundsteuern pl
    8. COMPUT Rate f
    9.
    ▶ at any \rate (whatever happens) auf jeden Fall; (at least) zumindest, wenigstens
    I don't think they liked my idea — at any \rate, they didn't show much enthusiasm ich glaube nicht, dass sie meine Idee gut fanden — zumindest zeigten sie keine große Begeisterung
    ▶ at this \rate unter diesen Umständen
    ▶ at a \rate of knots ( fam) in null Komma nichts fam
    II. vt
    ▪ to \rate sb/sth jdn/etw einschätzen
    how do you \rate the new government? was halten Sie von der neuen Regierung?
    she is \rated very highly by the people she works for die Leute, für die sie arbeitet, halten große Stücke auf sie
    she \rates him among her closest friends sie zählt ihn zu ihren engsten Freunden
    ▪ to \rate sb as sth:
    how do you \rate him as a footballer? was hältst du von ihm als Fußballer? fam; ( fam)
    what do you think of her as a singer? — I don't really \rate her wie findest du sie als Sängerin? — nicht so toll fam
    2. (be worthy of)
    to \rate a mention der Rede wert [o erwähnenswert] sein
    3. BRIT, AUS ( dated: value)
    ▪ to \rate sth den besteuerbaren Wert einer S. gen schätzen, etw veranlagen
    they \rate the property in this area very heavily Immobilienbesitz in dieser Gegend wird sehr hoch besteuert
    ▪ to \rate sth etw abschätzen
    III. vi
    ▪ to \rate as sth als etw gelten
    that \rates as the worst film I've ever seen das war so ziemlich der schlechteste Film, den ich jemals gesehen habe
    * * *
    I [reɪt]
    1. n
    1) (= ratio, proportion, frequency) Rate f; (= speed) Tempo nt

    an hour/14 feet per minute —

    rate, at a rate of knots (inf) — in irrsinnigem Tempo (inf); (move also) mit hundert Sachen

    if you continue at this rate (lit, fig) — wenn du so weitermachst, wenn du in diesem Tempo weitermachst

    at the rate you're going you'll be dead before long — wenn du so weitermachst, bist du bald unter der Erde

    at any rate —

    at that rate, I suppose I'll have to agree — wenn das so ist, muss ich wohl zustimmen

    2) (COMM, FIN) Satz m; (ST EX) Kurs m

    rate of pay for overtime — Satz m für Überstunden

    postage/advertising/insurance rates — Post-/Werbe-/Versicherungsgebühren pl

    to pay sb at the rate of £10 per hour — jdm einen Stundenlohn von £ 10 bezahlen

    3) pl (dated Brit = municipal tax) Gemeindesteuern pl, Kommunalsteuern pl
    See:
    → water rate
    2. vt
    1) (= estimate value or worth of) (ein)schätzen

    to rate sb/sth among... — jdn/etw zu... zählen or rechnen

    to rate sb/sth as sth — jdn/etw für etw halten

    he is generally rated as a great statesman — er gilt allgemein als großer Staatsmann

    to rate sb/sth highly — jdn/etw hoch einschätzen

    Shearer was rated at £1,000,000 — Shearers Preis wurde auf £ 1.000.000 geschätzt

    2) (Brit LOCAL GOVERNMENT) veranlagen

    a shop rated at £1,000 per annum — ein Laden, dessen steuerbarer Wert £ 1.000 pro Jahr ist

    3) (= deserve) verdienen

    I think he rates a pass ( mark) — ich finde, seine Leistung kann man mit "ausreichend" oder besser bewerten

    4) (inf: think highly of) gut finden (inf)

    I really/don't really rate him — ich finde ihn wirklich gut/mag ihn nicht besonders

    3. vi
    (= be classed)

    to rate as... — gelten als...

    to rate among... — zählen zu...

    II
    vt (liter)
    See:
    = berate
    * * *
    rate1 [reıt]
    A s
    1. (Verhältnis)Ziffer f, Quote f, Rate f:
    rate of growth (inflation) WIRTSCH Wachstums-(Inflations)rate;
    rate of increase WIRTSCH Zuwachsrate;
    at the rate of im Verhältnis von ( → A 2, A 6)
    2. (Steuer- etc)Satz m, Kurs m, Tarif m:
    rate of exchange WIRTSCH Umrechnungs-, Wechselkurs;
    rate of interest Zinssatz, -fuß m;
    carry a high rate of interest hoch verzinst werden;
    rate of issue Ausgabekurs;
    rate of the day Tageskurs;
    railroad (bes Br railway) rates pl Eisenbahntarif;
    at the rate of zum Satze von ( → A 1, A 6)
    3. (festgesetzter) Preis, Betrag m:
    at a cheap (high) rate zu einem niedrigen (hohen) Preis;
    at that rate unter diesen Umständen;
    a) auf jeden Fall, unter allen Umständen,
    b) wenigstens, mindestens
    4. (Post-, Strom- etc)Gebühr f, Porto n, (Gas-, Strom)Preis m, (Wasser)Geld n
    5. Br Kommunalsteuer f, Gemeindeabgabe f:
    rates and taxes Kommunal- und Staatssteuern
    6. (relative) Geschwindigkeit ( auch PHYS, TECH), Tempo n:
    rate of energy PHYS Energiemenge f pro Zeiteinheit;
    rate of flow TECH Durchflussgeschwindigkeit oder -menge f;
    rate of an engine Motorleistung f;
    at the rate of mit einer Geschwindigkeit von ( → A 1, A 2)
    7. Grad m, (Aus)Maß n:
    at a fearful rate in erschreckendem Ausmaß
    8. Klasse f, Rang m, Grad m: → first-rate, etc
    9. SCHIFF
    a) (Schiffs)Klasse f
    b) Dienstgrad m (eines Matrosen)
    10. Gang m oder Abweichung f (einer Uhr)
    B v/t
    1. (ab-, ein)schätzen, taxieren (at auf akk), bewerten, einstufen
    2. jemanden einschätzen, beurteilen:
    rate sb highly jemanden hoch einschätzen
    3. betrachten als, halten für:
    he is rated a rich man er gilt als reicher Mann
    4. rechnen, zählen ( beide:
    among zu):
    5. einen Preis etc bemessen, ansetzen, Kosten veranschlagen:
    rate up höher einstufen oder versichern
    6. Br
    a) (zur Kommunalsteuer) veranlagen
    b) besteuern
    7. SCHIFF
    a) ein Schiff klassen
    b) einen Seemann einstufen
    8. eine Uhr regulieren
    9. etwas wert sein, verdienen
    C v/i
    1. angesehen werden, gelten ( beide:
    as als):
    rate high (low) (with) hoch (niedrig) im Kurs stehen (bei), viel (wenig) gelten (bei);
    rate above (below) (einkommensmäßig etc) rangieren oder stehen über (dat) (unter dat)
    2. zählen ( among zu)
    rate2 [reıt] v/t ausschimpfen
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (proportion) Rate, die

    increase at a rate of 50 a week — [um] 50 pro Woche anwachsen

    rate of inflation/absentee rate — Inflations-/Abwesenheitsrate, die

    2) (tariff) Satz, der

    interest/ taxation rate, rate of interest/taxation — Zins-/Steuersatz, der

    3) (amount of money) Gebühr, die

    rate [of pay] — Lohnsatz, der

    letter/parcel rate — Briefporto, das/Paketgebühr, die

    4) (speed) Geschwindigkeit, die; Tempo, das

    at a or the rate of 50 mph — mit [einer Geschwindigkeit von] 80 km/h

    at a good/fast/dangerous rate — zügig/mit hoher Geschwindigkeit/gefährlich schnell

    5) (Brit.): (local authority levy)

    [local or council] rates — Gemeindeabgaben

    6) (coll.)

    at any rate — (at least) zumindest; wenigstens; (whatever happens) auf jeden Fall

    at the rate you're going,... — (fig.) wenn du so weitermachst,...

    2. transitive verb
    1) (estimate worth of) schätzen [Vermögen]; einschätzen [Intelligenz, Leistung, Fähigkeit]

    rate somebody/something highly — jemanden/etwas hoch einschätzen

    2) (consider) betrachten; rechnen ( among zu)
    3) (Brit.): (value)

    the house is rated at £100 a year — die Grundlage für die Berechnung der Gemeindeabgaben für das Haus beträgt 100 Pfund pro Jahr

    4) (merit) verdienen [Auszeichnung, Erwähnung]
    3. intransitive verb
    * * *
    (of exchange) n.
    Devisenkurs m.
    Kurs -e m. (stocks) n.
    Kurs -e (Aktien) m. n.
    Anteil -e m.
    Frequenz -en f.
    Kurs -e (Aktien...) m.
    Quote -n f.
    Rate -n (Zuwachs-) f.
    Tarif -e m.
    Verhältnis n. v.
    bewerten v.
    einstufen v.

    English-german dictionary > rate

  • 18 tax

    1. n налог, сбор; пошлина

    after tax — после удержания налога; за вычетом налога, «чистый»

    to collect taxes — взимать налоги; собирать пошлину

    tax relief — сокращение налогов; уменьшение налоговых ставок

    tax exempt — налогом не облагается; освобождается от налогов

    paid back tax — сумма налога, возвращённая налогоплательщику

    accrued and unpaid tax — начисленный, но не уплаченный налог

    2. n издержки
    3. n бремя, испытание; чрезмерное требование
    4. n амер. разг. размер счёта
    5. n амер. членские взносы
    6. v облагать налогом; подвергать обложению

    to tax incomes — брать налог с доходов, подвергать доходы налогообложению

    7. v юр. таксировать, определять или устанавливать размер

    income tax fraud — мошенничество при обложении подоходным налогом или при взимании подоходного налога

    8. v испытывать, подвергать испытанию
    9. v делать выговор, выговаривать; упрекать
    10. v обвинять, осуждать
    11. v амер. разг. назначать или спрашивать цену; брать плату

    buried tax — налог, включённый в цену товара

    12. v амер. взимать членские взносы

    collect a tax — собирать налог; взимать налог

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. levy (noun) assessment; custom; duty; excise; impost; levy; obligation; tariff; toll
    2. load (noun) burden; charge; deadweight; load; millstone; onus; task; weight
    3. accuse (verb) accuse; arraign; criminate; denounce; denunciate; impeach; incriminate; inculpate; indict
    4. assess (verb) assess; exact; impose; levy
    5. burden (verb) burden; charge; clog; cumber; encumber; freight; lade; load; lumber; oppress; saddle; weigh; weigh down; weight
    6. drain (verb) drain; exhaust; overwork; strain
    7. reproach (verb) admonish; castigate; chastise; chide; dress down; rebuke; reprimand; reproach; reprove; scold; upbraid
    8. work (verb) drive; labour; task; work
    Антонимический ряд:
    exempt; relieve

    English-Russian base dictionary > tax

  • 19 rate

    1) размер; норма
    2) ставка; ставка таможенной пошлины; учётная ставка; такса
    3) курс; цена; оценка || оценивать; расценивать
    4) темп; скорость
    5) пропорция; процент
    6) коэффициент; показатель; степень
    7) местный налог; коммунальный налог || облагать налогом
    8) брит. налог на землю, поземельный налог
    9) интенсивность, мощность
    10) разряд, сорт; класс || классифицировать, устанавливать категорию
    11) уст. паёк, порция
    12) тариф || тарифицировать, определять тариф
    13) плата за перевозку
    14) величина; уровень

    Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > rate

  • 20 rate

    I
    1. [reıt] n
    1. норма; размер

    crime rate - показатель /индекс, статистика/ преступности

    rate of profit /of return/ - полит.-эк. норма прибыли

    rate of surplus value - полит.-эк. норма прибавочной стоимости

    rate of production - а) норма выработки; б) производительность

    rate of seeding - с.-х. норма высева

    the marriage rate per mille - количество браков на тысячу (человек) населения

    to go at the rate of six miles an hour - проходить по 6 миль в час; двигаться со скоростью 6 миль в час

    2. 1) ставка, тариф; такса; расценка

    the Rate - фин. учётная ставка банка Великобритании

    rate of discount - фин. учётная ставка, учётный процент; ставка дисконта

    the rate of interest - ставка /норма/ процента

    2) фин. курс

    the rate of exchange - валютный курс; вексельный курс; обменный курс

    dollar [sterling] rate - курс доллара [фунта стерлингов]

    3) цена; оценка

    to buy [to sell] at a high rate - купить [продать] по высокой цене

    you can have them at the rate of $1 a dozen - можете купить их по одному доллару за дюжину

    at an easy rate - а) по недорогой цене, дёшево; б) легко, без труда, без усилий

    to value smth. at a low rate - а) низко оценивать что-л.; б) быть невысокого мнения о чём-л.

    4) pl ж.-д. грузовой тариф
    3. скорость, темп

    rate constant - хим. константа скорости реакции

    rate of advance - воен. темп наступления

    rate of climb - ав. скороподъёмность

    rate of descent - ав. скорость снижения

    rate of fire - воен. скорость стрельбы; темп огня; режим огня

    rate of sailing - мор. скорость хода ( судна)

    rate of ionization - физ. скорость ионизации

    at a great [fearful] rate - с огромной [страшной] скоростью

    to drive at a dangerous rate - вести автомобиль с опасным превышением скорости

    unemployment increases at a fearful rate - безработица растёт угрожающими темпами

    4. процент, доля; коэффициент; пропорция; степень

    rate of reproduction, reproduction rate - эк. коэффициент воспроизводства

    rate of return - эк. рентабельность, норма рентабельности

    5. 1) разряд, сорт

    of the first rate - первоклассный; наилучший

    this fruit [this orchestra] is very second rate - это очень неважные фрукты [посредственный оркестр]

    2) пошиб, полёт
    6. местный, муниципальный, коммунальный налог; сбор на местные нужды ( в Великобритании)

    rates and taxes - (местные) сборы и (государственные) налоги; коммунальные и государственные налоги

    to raise a rate of £1 - взимать сбор в один фунт стерлингов

    7. амер. оценка, отметка ( в школе)
    8. образ действия; манера, способ

    if you go on at that rate you will injure your health - если вы и дальше будете поступать так, вы подорвёте своё здоровье

    at this rate - а) таким образом; так; б) если так будет продолжаться

    at that rate - в таком случае; если это так, если то, что вы говорите, соответствует действительности

    at that rate we shan't get any dinner today - если так пойдёт дальше, мы сегодня останемся без обеда

    he ought to be dismissed at that rate - в таком случае, его следует уволить

    9. спец. интенсивность; мощность

    emission [radiation, fission] rate - физ. интенсивность испускания [излучения, деления]

    exposure [dosage] rate - физ. мощность облучения [дозы]

    rate of work - интенсивность работы, мощность

    rate of gain - с.-х. интенсивность прироста /привеса/

    10. спец. частота

    pulse rate - а) мед. частота пульса; б) элк. частота (повторения) импульсов

    11. спорт. разряд
    12. мор.
    2) ист. ранг ( корабля)
    3) = rating1 6, 1)
    13. ( о часах) ход; суточное отставание; уход вперёд за сутки
    14. тех. расход (воды и т. п.)

    ♢ at any rate - во всяком случае; по меньшей мере

    not at any rate - арх. ни в коем случае; ни за что

    he has improved somewhat, in manners at any rate - он стал немного лучше, по крайней мере в обращении

    at any rate I will do nothing without further instructions - во всяком случае я ничего не буду делать без дальнейших указаний

    at all rates - а) во всяком /в любом/ случае; как бы то ни было; б) арх. любой ценой; любыми средствами

    to come upon the rates - ист. содержаться за счёт налогоплательщиков ( о неимущих); попасть в работный дом

    2. [reıt] v
    1. 1) ( часто at) оценивать, производить оценку; исчислять

    to rate a coin [paper money] above [below] its real value - определять курс монеты [бумажных денег] выше [ниже] реальной стоимости

    what do you rate his fortune at? - в какую сумму вы оцениваете его состояние?

    output was rated at about 5,000 bales per working day - по подсчётам оказалось, что производительность составляет около 5000 кип за рабочий день

    2) ценить, расценивать, оценивать

    to rate smb., smth. high - высоко ценить кого-л., что-л.

    to rate one profession above another in usefulness - считать одну профессию полезнее другой

    he doesn't rate himself an ordinary clerk - он не считает себя простым клерком

    3) спец. таксировать, тарифицировать
    2. ( часто as)
    1) считать, рассматривать; полагать

    he is rated the best in his field - его считают лучшим специалистом в данной области

    I rate him among my friends - я отношу его к числу своих друзей; я считаю его своим другом

    2) считаться, рассматриваться

    to rate as a national resource - рассматриваться как источник общегосударственного значения

    he rates as one of the best runners over the distance - он считается одним из лучших бегунов на этой дистанции

    3. преим. pass
    1) облагать местным налогом
    2) оценивать для установления ставки местного налога или страховой премии

    the shop was rated at £500 a year - облагаемый налогом доход с магазина был исчислен в пятьсот фунтов стерлингов в год

    to rate up - страх. увеличивать страховую премию ( в случае особого риска) [см. тж. 7, 3)]

    4. амер. ставить отметку, оценку ( учащемуся); оценивать знания

    to rate a student first - считать какого-л. учащегося первым учеником /отличником/

    5. разг. заслуживать
    6. амер.
    1) (заслуженно) пользоваться чем-л.; иметь право на что-л.

    she rates special privileges - она пользуется особыми привилегиями; ей предоставлены особые привилегии

    2) занимать привилегированное положение

    she really rates with her boss - босс с ней очень считается /очень её ценит/

    7. преим. мор.
    1) определять класс (корабля, автомобиля); устанавливать категорию; классифицировать
    2) иметь какую-л. категорию, класс и т. п.

    a ship rates as first [as second] - судно относится к первому [ко второму] классу

    3) присваивать класс, звание ( моряку)

    to rate up - повысить в классе, звании и т. п. [см. тж. 3, 2)]

    4) иметь класс, звание ( о моряке)
    8. регулировать, выверять ( часы)
    II [reıt] v
    делать выговор; отчитывать, бранить, разносить (кого-л.)

    to rate smb. for doing smth. - выговаривать кому-л. за что-л.

    to rate smb. soundly - задать кому-л. головомойку

    to rate at smb. - кричать на кого-л.

    НБАРС > rate

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