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élection [elεksjɔ̃]

feminine noun

election

• se présenter aux élections to stand (Brit) or run (US) as a candidate in the election

• patrie d'élection country of one's own choosing

► élections législatives legislative elections ≈ general election

► élection partielle ≈ by-election

► élection présidentielle presidential election

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ÉLECTIONS

Presidential elections are held in France every seven years, while legislative elections (for the « députés » who make up the « Assemblée nationale ») take place every five years.

On a local level the most important elections are the « élections municipales » for the « Conseil municipal » (or the « Conseil d'arrondissement » in Paris, Marseille and Lyon).

All public elections take place on a Sunday in France, usually in school halls and « mairies ». → CANTON COMMUNE DÉPARTEMENT

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Public elections are held on Sundays, with a week's delay (two weeks in the élections présidentielles) between first and second rounds if absolute majority is not achieved immediately. Voters, who must present their carte d'électeur and proof of identity, collect slips and in the privacy of the polling booth choose the slip containing the name of their preferred candidate or list and place it in an envelope and then in the polling box or urne

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elɛksjɔ̃
1. nf

1) POLITIQUE election

2) (= choix)

sa terre d'élection — the land of one's choice

sa patrie d'élection — the country of one's choice

2. élections nfpl

POLITIQUE election(s)

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élection nf

1 Pol election (à to); se présenter aux élections to stand in the elections GB, to run for office US, to run in the elections; des élections libres free elections; élection présidentielle presidential election; élections primaires/législatives/locales primary/legislative/local elections; élections générales general election; élection partielle by-election GB, off-year election US; le premier tour des élections the first ballot; après son élection after being elected;

2 ( choix) choice; mon pays d'élection my chosen country.Élection Public elections are held on Sundays, with a week's delay (two weeks in the élections présidentielles) between first and second rounds if absolute majority is not achieved immediately. Voters, who must present their carte d'électeur and proof of identity, collect slips and in the privacy of the polling booth choose the slip containing the name of their preferred candidate or list and place it in an envelope and then in the polling box or urne.

[elɛksjɔ̃] nom féminin

1. [procédure] election, polls

les élections ont lieu aujourd'hui it's election ou polling day today

procéder à une élection to hold an election

se présenter aux élections to stand in the elections (UK), to run for office ou as a candidate (US)

élections cantonaleselections held every three years to elect half the members of the Conseil général

élections législatives general elections (held every five years)

élections municipales local ou council (UK) elections (held every six years)

élection partielle by-election

élection présidentielle presidential election

élections régionales elections held every six years to elect members of the Conseil régional

élections sénatorialeselections held every three years to elect one third of the members of the Sénat

2. [nomination] election

son élection à la présidence her election as president ou to the presidency

3. DROIT

élection de domicile choice of domicile

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d'élection locution adjectivale

[choisi - patrie, famille] of one's own choice ou choosing, chosen

ÉLECTIONS

All French citizens aged eighteen or over are entitled to vote in elections, after they have registered on the electoral rolls. Elections usually take place on a Sunday and polling stations are often set up in local schools. Voters go to a booth and put their voting slip in an envelope which is placed in the ballot box ( l'urne) supervised by an assesseur, who then utters the words a voté !

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > élection
2 назначить выборы

to set election

Русско-английский юридический словарь > назначить выборы
3 назначить выборы

to set election

Русско-английский юридический словарь > назначить выборы
4 назначить выборы

1) General subject: call the election, call the elections, fix the election, fix the elections

2) Law: call an election

3) Politics: set election

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > назначить выборы
5 выборы выбор·ы

election(s)

бойкотировать выборы — to boycott an election

выиграть выборы — to gain / to win an election

выйти победителем на выборах — to emerge the winner in the election

идти на выборы — to go to the polls

лидировать на выборах — to head the poll, to outpoll

назначить дату выборов — to set a day for elections

назначить новые выборы — to call new elections

оглашать результаты выборов — to make the results of the elections public

одержать полную победу на выборах — to sweep the elections

оспаривать результаты выборов — to dispute an election

отложить выборы — to postpone an election

победить на выборах — to win / to carry / to swing an election

потерпеть поражение на выборах — to lose an election; to be defeated in an election

представительствовать на выборах — to officiate at an election

призвать к проведению свободных выборов — to call for free elections

признать выборы недействительными — to null / to nullify an election; to invalidate the balloting амер.

принимать участие / участвовать в выборах — to participate / to take part in the elections

провалить кого-л. на выборах — to vote smb. down

провалить правящую партию на выборах — to vote a party out of power

проводить выборы — to hold an election, to conduct elections

пройти на выборах от какого-л. округа — to get in for a constituency

пройти на выборах со значительным перевесом — to win an election by considerable odds

"прокатить" кого-л. на выборах — to row smb. up Salt River амер. жарг.

фальсифицировать выборы — to stuff the ballot-box(es)

альтернативные выборы, выборы на альтернативной основе (на которых выступает несколько кандидатов) — contested / multicandidate election

внеочередные выборы — off-year election, snap election

всеобщие выборы — general / national / popular election(s)

двухступенчатые выборы — two-stage election

дополнительные выборы — by-election

досрочные выборы — early / pre-term election

инсценированные выборы — farcical election

многостепенные / непрямые выборы — multi-stage / indirect elections

неявившийся на выборы — nonvoter

очередные выборы — regular / next elections

парламентские выборы — parliamentary elections

предварительные выборы — pre-election; primaries, primary-election амер.

закрытые предварительные выборы (в которых могут участвовать только члены данной партии) — closed primaries амер.

открытые предварительные выборы — (в которых могут участвовать члены любой партии) open primaries амер.

предстоящие выборы — forthcoming / upcoming election(s)

президентские выборы, выборы президента — presidential election(s)

пропорциональные выборы (на основе пропорционального представительства) — elections on a population basis

прямые выборы (в отличие от многостепенных) — direct election

голосование на прямых выборах (в отличие от голосования в коллегии выборщиков) — popular vote

путём прямых выборов — by'direct vote

свободные выборы — free election / franchise

фиктивные выборы — eye-wash / sham election

выборы в Конгресс, проводимые в год, когда не избирается президент, промежуточные выборы (США) — mid-term elections

выборы в местные органы власти — local elections, elections to local bodies

выборы в местные Советы народных депутатов ист. — elections to the local Soviets of People's Deputies

выборы, на которых борьба ведётся вокруг насущных вопросов (цен, налогов, безработицы и т.п.) — bread-and-butter election

выборы, происходящие раз в четыре года — quadrennial elections

выборы путём тайного голосования — suffrage by secret ballot

выборы с несколькими баллотировками / в несколько туров — successive ballots

выборы (кандидатов) списком — voting for a list

выборы были признаны недействительными — the election was null

год выборов — election year

год выборов президента — presidential year

день выборов — election day

исход выборов — outcome of an election

это решило исход выборов — this swung the elections

итоги / результаты выборов — election results / results / returns

блестящая победа на выборах — landslide (victory) амер.

одержать блестящую победу на выборах — to landslide

подтасовывать / фальсифицировать результаты выборов — to rig an election; to fix an eljection жарг.

положение о выборах — elective constitution. Statute of Elections, Election(s) Regulations

помещение для (проведения) выборов — polling station / place

порядок проведения / процедура выборов — procedure for elections, election procedure

сводка о ходе выборы ов (передаваемая по радио) — bulletin flash

участие в выборах — voting

право участия в выборах — right to vote in the election

процент участия в выборах — poll

высокий процент участия в выборах — heavy poll

низкий процент участия в выборах — poor / light poll

фальсификация выборов — stealing of elections; ballot-box stuffing амер. разг.

Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > выборы выбор·ы
6 poser

poser [poze]

➭ TABLE 1

1. transitive verb

   a. ( = placer) [+ objet] to put down ; (debout) to stand

• poser qch sur une table/par terre to put sth on a table/on the floor

• poser sa tête sur l'oreiller to lay one's head on the pillow

• poser une échelle contre un mur to lean a ladder against a wall

   b. ( = installer) [+ tableau, rideaux] to hang ; [+ carrelage, moquette] to lay ; [+ vitre] to put in ; [+ serrure] to fit ; [+ bombe] to plant

• poser la première pierre to lay the foundation stone

   c. [+ chiffres] to set down

• je pose 4 et je retiens 3 put down 4 and carry 3

   d. ( = énoncer) [+ condition] to set ; [+ question] to ask ; (à un examen) to set

• poser sa candidature à un poste to apply for a post

   e. ( = demander) poser des jours de congé to put in a request for leave

   f. ( = donner de l'importance) poser qn to establish sb's reputation

• ça vous pose people really think you're somebody

2. intransitive verb

(pour portrait) to sit ; ( = chercher à se faire remarquer) to show off

3. reflexive verb

► se poser

   a. [insecte, oiseau, avion] to land

• se poser en catastrophe/sur le ventre [avion] to make an emergency landing/a belly-landing

• pose-toi là (inf) sit down here

• son regard s'est posé sur elle his eyes fell on her

   b. [question, problème] to arise

   c. ( = se présenter) se poser comme victime to claim to be a victim

• comme menteur, vous vous posez (un peu) là ! (inf) you're a terrible liar!

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poze
1.

verbe transitif

1) ( mettre) to put down

pose ton manteau — put your coat somewhere

ils ont posé un échafaudage contre le mur — they've put some scaffolding up against the wall

poser la main sur le bras de quelqu'un — to lay ou place one's hand on somebody's arm

j'ai posé une lettre sur votre bureau — I've put a letter on your desk

poser les yeux sur quelqu'un/quelque chose — to look at somebody/something

2) ( mettre en place) to put in [compteur, vitre]; to install [signalisation, radiateur]; to fit [serrure, prothèse]; to lay [carrelage, mine, pierre, câble]; to plant [bombe]; to fit, to lay [moquette]; to put up [papier peint, tableau, rideau, cloison, affiches]

3) ( établir) to assert, to postulate sout [hypothèse]; to lay down [règles, limites]

poser sa candidature à un poste — to apply for a job

poser sa candidature à une élection — to stand GB ou run for election

je pose 3 et je retiens 2 — I put ou write down (the) 3 and carry (the) 2

poser comme hypothèse que — to put forward the theory that

4) ( soulever) to ask [question]; to set [devinette]

la question reste posée — the question (still) remains

poser (un) problème à quelqu'un — to pose a problem for somebody

ça ne pose aucun problème — that's no problem at all

5) Musique to place [voix]

2.

verbe intransitif

1) Art, Photographie to pose

poser nu — to pose (in the) nude

2) ( être affecté) to put on airs

3.

se poser verbe pronominal

1) [oiseau, insecte] to settle, to alight

2) [avion] to land, to touch down

se poser en catastrophe — to make an emergency landing

3) (colloq) ( s'asseoir) to plant oneself

pose-toi quelque part et attends-moi — park (colloq) yourself somewhere and wait for me

4) ( s'arrêter) [yeux, regard] to fall ( sur on)

5) ( s'affirmer)

se poser en — to claim to be

se poser en victime — to present oneself as a victim

6) ( se demander)

se poser des questions — to ask oneself questions

se poser des questions au sujet de quelqu'un/quelque chose — ( s'interroger) to wonder about somebody/something; ( douter) to have doubts about somebody/something

ils vivent sans se poser de questions — they accept things as they are

7) ( exister) [question] to arise

la question ne se pose pas — ( c'est impossible) there's no question of it; ( c'est évident) it goes without saying

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comme imbécile il se pose là! — (colloq) he's a prime example of an idiot!

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poze
1. vt

1) (= déposer) [valise, objet lourd] to put down

poser qch sur — to put sth down on

Pose ta valise, elle doit être lourde. — Put your suitcase down, it must be heavy.

2) [passager]

poser qn à — to drop sb off at

Je vous pose à Montparnasse? — Shall I drop you off at Montparnasse?

3) (= placer)

poser qch sur — to put sth on

poser qch contre — to put sth against

poser qch quelque part — to put sth somewhere

J'ai posé la cafetière sur la table. — I put the coffee pot on the table.

poser son regard sur qn/qch — to turn one's gaze on sb/sth

4) (= installer) [moquette, carrelage] to lay, [rideaux, papier peint] to hang, [vitre, radiateur] to put in, [verrou] to fit

5) ADMINISTRATION

poser sa candidature (pour un poste) — to apply, POLITIQUEto stand

6) [question] to ask

poser une question à qn — to ask sb a question

7) (= énoncer) [principe, conditions] to lay down, to set down, [problème] to formulate

8) [difficulté] to pose

Cela pose un problème. — That poses a problem.

9) [personne]

ce genre de truc, ça vous pose — that kind of thing gives you status

10) MATHÉMATIQUE, [chiffre] to put down, to put

2. vi

1) (pour un photographe) to pose

2) (pour un peintre) to sit

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poser verb table: aimer

A vtr

1 ( mettre) to put down, to lay down [livre, journal]; to put down, to set down [verre, tasse]; il a posé son verre he put ou set down his glass; pose ton manteau et assieds-toi put your coat somewhere and sit down; ils ont posé un échafaudage contre le mur they've put some scaffolding up against the wall; poser la main sur le bras de qn to lay ou place one's hand on sb's arm; dès qu'il a posé le pied en Italie il a su qu'il y serait bien as soon as he set foot in Italy he knew he would be happy there; j'ai posé une lettre sur votre bureau I've put a letter on your desk; s'endormir dès qu'on pose la tête sur l'oreiller to fall asleep as soon as one's head hits ou touches the pillow; poser les yeux sur qn/qch to look at sb/sth; poser son regard sur qn to look at sb; poser un baiser sur la joue de qn to plant a kiss on sb's cheek; une grande bâtisse posée au mileu d'un parc a large mansion set in the middle of a park;

2 ( mettre en place) to put in, to install [compteur, vitre]; to install [signalisation, radiateur]; to fit [serrure, dentier, prothèse]; to lay [carrelage, mine, pierre, câble]; to plant [bombe]; to fit, to lay [moquette]; to put up [papier peint, tableau, rideau, cloison]; to put up, to post [affiches]; to fit, to insert [stérilet]; to apply [garrot];

3 ( établir) to assert, to postulate sout [théorie, hypothèse]; to lay down [principes, règles, limites]; poser la supériorité de l'homme sur l'animal to assert the superiority of human beings over animals; le syndicat a posé un préavis de grève the trade union has given notice of a strike; je vais accepter leur proposition mais je vais poser mes conditions I'll accept their proposal but I'm going to lay down my conditions; poser sa candidature à un poste to apply for a job; poser sa candidature à une élection to stand GB ou run for election; poser une addition to write a sum down, to write down a sum; je pose 3 et je retiens 2 I put ou write down (the) 3 and carry (the) 2; poser que to suppose that; poser comme hypothèse que to put forward the theory that;

4 ( soulever) to ask [question] (sur, au sujet de about); to set [devinette]; la question reste posée the question (still) remains; poser (un) problème à qn to pose a problem for sb; ça ne pose aucun problème that's no problem at all ; ça leur pose des problèmes that poses problems for them;

5 Mus to place [voix]; j'ai appris à poser ma voix I've learned to place my voice.

B vi

1 Art, Phot to pose; poser nu to pose (in the) nude;

2 ( être affecté) to put on airs; il fallait la voir poser devant le ministre! you should have seen how she put on airs in front of the minister!; poser pour la galerie to play to the gallery; poser au génie méconnu to act ou play the misunderstood genius.

C se poser vpr

1 [oiseau, insecte] to settle, to alight (sur on);

2 [avion] to land, to touch down; se poser en catastrophe to make an emergency landing;

3 ○( s'asseoir) to plant oneself (sur on); pose-toi quelque part et attends-moi park○ yourself somewhere and wait for me;

4 ( s'arrêter) [yeux, regard] to fall (sur on);

5 ( être installé) une fenêtre se pose plus facilement à deux it' s easier to fit ou install a window if there are two of you;

6 ( s'affirmer) se poser en qch to claim to be sth; se poser en victime/exemple to present oneself as a victim/an example; se poser comme le successeur to present oneself as the successor;

7 ( se demander) se poser des questions to ask oneself questions; se poser des questions au sujet de qn/qch ( s'interroger) to wonder about sb/sth; ( douter) to have doubts about sb/sth; se poser la question de l'efficacité de qn/l'efficacité de qch to wonder ou have doubts about sb's efficiency/the efficiency of sth; il faut se poser la question de savoir si le projet a des chances d'aboutir we must ask ourselves whether this project has any chance of success; ils vivent sans se poser de questions they accept things as they are;

8 ( exister) [problème, cas, question] to arise; le problème se pose régulièrement the problem arises regularly; la question ne se pose pas ( c'est impossible) there's no question of it; ( c'est évident) it goes without saying; la question se pose aussi en termes d'argent there is also a financial side to the question.

Idiome

comme imbécile/hypocrite il se pose là○! he's a prime example of an idiot/a hypocrite!

I

[poze] nom masculin

MILITAIRE landing (of a helicopter)

II

[poze] verbe transitif

1. [mettre] to put, to lay, to place

poser ses coudes sur la table to rest ou to put one's elbows on the table

poser un sac par terre to put a bag (down) on the floor

j'ai tellement mal que je ne peux plus poser le pied par terre my foot hurts so much, I can't put my weight on it any longer

il posa un baiser sur ses paupières he kissed her on the eyelids

je ne sais pas où poser mes fesses (familier & humoristique) I don't know where to sit

(en usage absolu)

à toi de poser! [aux dominos] your turn!

[cesser d'utiliser] to put away ou down (separable)

pose ton ballon et viens dîner put away your ball and come and have dinner

posez vos stylos et écoutez-moi put your pens down and listen to me

2. [installer - papier peint, cadre, tentures, affiche] to put up (separable) ; [ - antenne] to put up (separable), to install ; [ - radiateur, alarme] to put in (separable), to install ; [ - verrou] to fit ; [ - cadenas] to put on (separable) ; [ - moquette] to fit, to lay ; [ - carrelage, câble, mine, rail, tuyau] to lay ; [ - vitre] to put in ; [ - placard] to put in, to install ; [ - prothèse] to fit, to put in ; [ - enduit] to put on

faire poser un double vitrage to have double-glazing put in ou fitted

se faire poser une couronne to have a crown fitted

3. [énoncer - question] to ask ; [ - devinette] to ask, to set

poser une question à quelqu'un to ask somebody a question, to put a question to somebody

poser un problème

a. [causer des difficultés] to raise ou to pose a problem

b. [l'énoncer] to set a problem

de la façon dont il m'avait posé le problème... the way he'd put ou outlined the problem to me...

elle me pose de gros problèmes she's a great problem ou source of anxiety to me

si ça ne pose pas de problème, je viendrai avec mon chien if it's not a problem (for you) I'll bring my dog

4. [établir - condition] to state, to lay down ; [ - principe, règle] to lay ou to set down (separable), to state

une fois posées les bases du projet once the foundations of the project have been laid down

poser quelque chose comme condition/principe to lay something down as a condition/principle

si l'on pose comme hypothèse que... if we take as a hypothesis that...

5. (familier) [mettre en valeur] to establish the reputation of, to give standing to

une voiture comme ça, ça vous pose that kind of car gives you a certain status

6. MATHÉMATIQUES to put down (separable)

je pose 2 et je retiens 1 put down 2, carry 1

poser une opération to set out a sum

7. MUSIQUE

poser sa voix to pitch one's voice

8. SPORT to place

9. AÉRONAUTIQUE [avion, hélicoptère] to land, to set down (separable)

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[poze] verbe intransitif

1. [pour un peintre, un photographe] to pose, to sit

poser pour une photo/un magazine to pose for a photo/magazine

et maintenant, tout le monde va poser pour la photo souvenir let's have everyone together now for the souvenir photograph

2. [fanfaronner] to put on airs, to show off, to pose

[faire semblant] to put on airs, to strike a pose ou an attitude

elle n'est pas vraiment malheureuse, elle pose she's not really unhappy, it's just a façade ou it's all show

poser à [se faire passer pour] to pretend to be, to act, to play

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se poser verbe pronominal (emploi passif)

se poser facilement

a. [chaudière] to be easy to install

b. [moquette] to be easy to lay

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se poser verbe pronominal transitif

[faire surgir]

se poser la question ou le problème de savoir si... to ask oneself ou to wonder whether...

il va finir par se poser des questions he's going to start having doubts

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se poser verbe pronominal intransitif

1. [descendre - avion, hélicoptère] to land, to touch down ; [ - papillon] to land, to alight ; [ - oiseau] to land, to perch

se poser en catastrophe to make an emergency landing

se poser en douceur to make a smooth landing

une plume est venue se poser sur sa tête a feather floated down onto his head

tous les regards se posèrent sur elle all eyes turned to her

il sentit leurs yeux se poser sur lui he could feel their eyes on him

sa main se posa sur la mienne she put her hand on mine

2. (familier) [s'asseoir]

pose-toi là sit (yourself) down here

3. [surgir - question, problème] to arise, to come up

la question ne se pose plus maintenant the question is irrelevant now

la question qui se pose maintenant est la suivante the question which must now be asked is the following

le problème qui se pose à moi the problem I've got to face ou to solve

le problème se pose de savoir si l'on doit négocier there's the problem of whether or not we should negotiate

le problème ne se pose pas exactement en ces termes that's not exactly where the problem lies

4. [se faire passer pour]

se poser en ou comme to pass oneself off as

je ne me suis jamais posé en expert I never set myself up to be ou I never pretended I was an expert

5. (familier & locution)

se poser là [il est brillant]: pour l'intelligence, son frère se pose là! her brother's got quite a brain!

elle se pose là, leur bagnole! [avec admiration] their car's an impressive bit of machinery!

comme plombier, tu te poses là! call yourself a plumber, do you?

comme gaffe, ça se pose là! that's what you might call a blunder!

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > poser
7 Wahl

f; -, -en

1. nur Sg. choice; (Alternative) alternative, option; (Auslese) selection; aus freier Wahl of one’s own free will ( oder choice); seine Wahl treffen make one’s choice; die freie Wahl haben be free to choose; keine ( andere) Wahl haben have no alternative ( oder choice) ( als but); in die engere Wahl kommen be short-listed, be on the short list; Sache: be a possibility; der Wagen Ihrer Wahl the car of your choice; vor der Wahl stehen, zu (+ Inf.) be faced with the choice of (+ Ger.) wenn ich die Wahl hätte if I could choose, if I had the choice; die Wahl fällt mir schwer I find it hard to choose, I can’t decide; drei Themen stehen zur Wahl there’s a choice of three topics, three topics are on offer; wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual Sprichw. decisions, decisions!

2. POL. etc. election; (Wahlakt) poll(ing), voting; (Stimmabgabe) vote; Wahlen abhalten hold elections; Sonntag sind Wahlen there are elections on Sunday, Sunday is an election day; direkte / indirekte Wahl direct / indirect election; freie Wahlen free elections; geheime Wahl secret ballot; sich zur Wahl stellen stand (bes. Am. run) (as a candidate); Wahl durch Handaufheben vote by (a) show of hands; Wahl durch Zurufen vote by acclamation; zur Wahl schreiten go to the polls; die Wahl anfechten contest the result of the election

3. im Verein etc.: election; (Abstimmung) vote; bei der Hauptversammlung im Mai stehen Wahlen an elections will take place at the Annual General Meeting in May; seine Wahl in das Vereinspräsidium etc. his election to the presiding committee of the club etc.; nehmen Sie die Wahl an? are you willing to accept your election ( oder the office you have been elected to)?; ich nehme die Wahl an I accept (my election)

4. nur. Sg.; (Güteklasse) grade, quality, class; erste Wahl top ( oder prime) quality, first grade, grade one; zweite Wahl second quality, second grade, grade two; (Waren) seconds; die Orangen sind zweite Wahl the oranges are grade two ( oder second-grade); als Kandidat etc. ist er nur zweite Wahl as a candidate etc. he’s only second-rate

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die Wahl

(Auswahl) selection; choice;

(politisch) election; poll; vote; voting; polling

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[vaːl]
f -, -en

1) (= Auswahl) choice

die Wáhl fiel auf ihn/dieses Buch — he/this book was chosen

aus freier Wáhl — of one's own free choice

wir hatten keine (andere) Wáhl(, als) — we had no alternative or choice (but)

es gab or blieb keine andere Wáhl(, als) — there was no alternative (but)

das ließ mir keine (andere) Wáhl — it left me no (other) choice

jdm die Wáhl lassen — to leave (it up to) sb to choose

jdm etw zur Wáhl stellen — to give sb the choice of sth

drei Kandidaten stehen zur Wáhl — there is a choice of three candidates

seine/eine Wáhl treffen — to make one's/a choice or selection

du hast die Wáhl — take your choice or pick

sie hat die Wáhl, ob sie... — the choice is hers whether she..., it's up to her whether she...

wer die Wáhl hat, hat die Qual (Prov) — he is/you are etc spoiled for choice

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2) (POL ETC) election; (= Abstimmung) vote; (geheim) ballot

geheime Wáhl — secret ballot

freie Wáhl — free elections

Wáhl durch Handerheben — vote by (a) show of hands

(die) Wáhlen — (the) elections

Wáhl eines Präsidenten — election of a president

seine Wáhl in den Vorstand/zum Präsidenten — his election to the board/as president

die Wáhl gewinnen — to win the election

zur Wáhl gehen — to go to vote, to go to the polls

jdn zur Wáhl aufstellen or vorschlagen — to propose sb or put sb up as a candidate (for election)

sich zur Wáhl stellen — to stand (as a candidate), to stand (at the/an election), to run (for parliament/president etc)

zur Wáhl schreiten — to take a vote or (geheim) ballot

die Wáhl annehmen — to accept the or one's election

3) (= Qualität) quality

erste Wáhl — top quality; Gemüse, Eier class or grade one

zweite/dritte Wáhl — second/third quality; Gemüse, Eier class or grade two/three

Waren erster Wáhl — top-quality goods

Eier erster Wáhl — class-one or grade-one eggs

Fleisch erster Wáhl — prime meat

Waren zweiter Wáhl — seconds pl

Gemüse zweiter Wáhl — class-two or grade-two vegetables

der Teller war zweite Wáhl — the plate was a second

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die

1) (an act or the power of choosing: You have no choice - you must do it.) choice

2) (a thing chosen: Which car was your original choice?) choice

3) (the choosing, or choice, (usually by vote) of person(s) for office: When do the elections take place?; He is standing for election again.) election

4) (the act or process of selecting or being selected: a selection of boys for the choir; ( also adjective) a selection committee.) selection

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Wahl

<-, -en>

[va:l]

f

1. POL (Abstimmung) election, vote

▪ [die] \Wahlen [zu etw dat] [the] elections [to sth]

die \Wahl annehmen to accept one's election

freie \Wahl free elections pl

geheime \Wahl secret ballot

zur \Wahl gehen to [go to] vote, to go to the polls

die \Wahl gewinnen to win the election

\Wahl durch Handaufheben vote by [a] show of hands

zur \Wahl schreiten (geh) to [take a] vote

jdn zur \Wahl stellen to put sb up as a candidate [for election]

sich akk zur \Wahl stellen to stand [or run] as a candidate

2. kein pl (Ernennung) election

jds \Wahl zum Vorsitzenden/in den Vorstand sb's election as chairman/to the board

3. kein pl (das Auswählen) choice

er ist der Mann meiner \Wahl he is the man of my choice

jds \Wahl fällt auf jdn/etw sb chooses sb/sth

meine \Wahl fiel auf den roten Sportwagen the red sports car was my choice

aus freier \Wahl of one's own free choice

freie \Wahl des Arbeitsplatzes free choice of employment

die \Wahl haben to have a choice

das Recht der ersten \Wahl the right of first choice

eine/seine \Wahl treffen to make a/one's choice

4. (Alternative) alternative, choice

die \Wahl haben to have the choice, to be able to choose

du hast die \Wahl take your choice

er hat die \Wahl the choice is his

jd hat [o jdm bleibt] keine andere \Wahl, als... sb has no alternative [or choice] but...

die \Wahl haben, etw zu tun to be able to choose to do sth

jdm die \Wahl lassen to let sb choose [or leave it up to sb [to choose]]

jdm keine \Wahl lassen to leave sb [with] no alternative [or other choice]

vor der \Wahl stehen to be faced with the choice

etw steht zur \Wahl there is a choice of sth

jdm etw zur \Wahl stellen to give sb the choice of sth

5. ÖKON (Klasse)

erste/zweite \Wahl top[-grade] [or first[-class]]/second-class quality

... erster/zweiter \Wahl top[-grade] [or first[-class]]/second-class quality...

Eier erster/zweiter \Wahl grade one/two eggs

Waren erster/zweiter \Wahl firsts/seconds, top[-grade]/second-class quality goods

6. ÖKON (Auswahl) choice, selection

7.

▶ wer die \Wahl hat, hat die Qual (prov) sb is spoilt for choice

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die; Wahl, Wahlen

1) o. Pl. choice

eine/seine Wahl treffen — make a/one's choice

jemandem die Wahl lassen — let somebody choose

mir bleibt od. ich habe keine [andere] Wahl — I have no choice or alternative

es stehen drei Menüs zur Wahl — there are three set meals to choose from

die Wahl fiel auf ihn — the choice fell on him

in die engere Wahl kommen — be short-listed or put on the shortlist (Brit.)

2) (in ein Gremium, Amt) election

in Hessen ist Wahl od. sind Wahlen — there are elections in Hessen

sich zur Wahl stellen — stand or (Amer.) run for election

geheime Wahl — secret ballot

3) (Güteklasse) quality

die Socken sind zweite Wahl — the socks are seconds

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Wahl f; -, -en

1. nur sg choice; (Alternative) alternative, option; (Auslese) selection;

aus freier Wahl of one’s own free will ( oder choice);

seine Wahl treffen make one’s choice;

die freie Wahl haben be free to choose;

keine (andere) Wahl haben have no alternative ( oder choice) (

als but);

in die engere Wahl kommen be short-listed, be on the short list; Sache: be a possibility;

der Wagen Ihrer Wahl the car of your choice;

vor der Wahl stehen, zu (+inf) be faced with the choice of (+ger)

wenn ich die Wahl hätte if I could choose, if I had the choice;

die Wahl fällt mir schwer I find it hard to choose, I can’t decide;

drei Themen stehen zur Wahl there’s a choice of three topics, three topics are on offer;

wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual sprichw decisions, decisions!

2. POL etc election; (Wahlakt) poll(ing), voting; (Stimmabgabe) vote;

Wahlen abhalten hold elections;

Sonntag sind Wahlen there are elections on Sunday, Sunday is an election day;

direkte/indirekte Wahl direct/indirect election;

freie Wahlen free elections;

geheime Wahl secret ballot;

sich zur Wahl stellen stand (besonders US run) (as a candidate);

Wahl durch Handaufheben vote by (a) show of hands;

Wahl durch Zurufen vote by acclamation;

zur Wahl schreiten go to the polls;

die Wahl anfechten contest the result of the election

3. im Verein etc: election; (Abstimmung) vote;

bei der Hauptversammlung im Mai stehen Wahlen an elections will take place at the Annual General Meeting in May;

seine Wahl in das Vereinspräsidium etc his election to the presiding committee of the club etc;

nehmen Sie die Wahl an? are you willing to accept your election ( oder the office you have been elected to)?;

ich nehme die Wahl an I accept (my election)

4. nur. sg; (Güteklasse) grade, quality, class;

erste Wahl top ( oder prime) quality, first grade, grade one;

zweite Wahl second quality, second grade, grade two; (Waren) seconds;

die Orangen sind zweite Wahl the oranges are grade two ( oder second-grade);

als Kandidat etc

ist er nur zweite Wahl as a candidate etc he’s only second-rate

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die; Wahl, Wahlen

1) o. Pl. choice

eine/seine Wahl treffen — make a/one's choice

jemandem die Wahl lassen — let somebody choose

mir bleibt od. ich habe keine [andere] Wahl — I have no choice or alternative

es stehen drei Menüs zur Wahl — there are three set meals to choose from

die Wahl fiel auf ihn — the choice fell on him

in die engere Wahl kommen — be short-listed or put on the shortlist (Brit.)

2) (in ein Gremium, Amt) election

in Hessen ist Wahl od. sind Wahlen — there are elections in Hessen

sich zur Wahl stellen — stand or (Amer.) run for election

geheime Wahl — secret ballot

3) (Güteklasse) quality

die Socken sind zweite Wahl — the socks are seconds

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-en f.

choice n.

election n.

electoral n.

option n.

vote n.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Wahl
8 presentar

v.

1 to present.

Ella presenta soluciones She presents solutions.

Ella le presenta a Ricardo un regalo She presents Richard a gift.

Ellos presentan a los candidatos They present=field the candidates.

2 to make (ofrecer) (disculpas, excusas).

3 to introduce (person).

me presentó a sus amigos she introduced me to her friends

me parece que no nos han presentado I don't think we've been introduced

Juan, te presento a Carmen Juan, this is Carmen

permítame que le presente a nuestra directora allow me to introduce you to our manager, I'd like you to meet our manager

Ella presenta a los invitados She introduces the guests.

4 to have, to show (tener) (aspecto).

presenta difícil solución it's going to be difficult to solve

Ella le presenta al público una obra She shows the public a play.

5 to host, to be the host of, to act as a compere for, to compere.

Ella presenta el programa She hosts the program.

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presentar

► verbo transitivo

1 (gen) to present; (mostrar) to show

■ hay que presentar la identificación you have to show your identification

■ me ha presentado sus disculpas he has apologized

■ presentó a concurso su primera novela she entered her first novel in a competition

2 (entregar) to hand in

3 (sacar al mercado) to launch

4 (personas) to introduce

■ ¿te han presentado ya? have you been introduced yet?

■ os presento a mi novia this is my girlfriend

5 TELEVISIÓN to present

6 (ofrecer) to offer, show

■ esta cicatriz no presenta buen aspecto that scar doesn't look good

► verbo pronominal presentarse

1 (comparecer) to turn up

■ nos presentamos en su casa sin previo aviso we turned up at her house without prior warning

■ se presentó a la policía inmediatamente he went straight to the police

2 (para elección) to stand; (en un concurso) to enter

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FRASEOLOGÍA

presentar una denuncia to lodge a complaint

presentar una ponencia to present a paper

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verb

1) to present

2) introduce

3) submit

4) make a gift

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- presentarse

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1. VT

1) (=enseñar, exponer) [gen] to present; [+ moción, candidato] to propose, put forward; [+ pruebas, informe] to submit; [+ documento, pasaporte] to show

presentar una propuesta — to make o present a proposal

presentar algo al cobro o al pago — (Com) to present sth for payment

2) (=entregar) to hand in

mañana tengo que presentar un trabajo — I have to hand in an essay tomorrow

presentó la dimisión — he handed in his resignation, he resigned

3) (=mostrar) [+ señal, síntoma] to show

presenta señales de deterioro — it is showing signs of wear

4) (=exponer al público) [+ producto, disco, libro] to launch

presentó su obra en la Galería Mons — she showed her work at the Galería Mons

5) [en espectáculo] [+ obra] to perform; [+ actor, actriz] to present, feature

el grupo presentó una obra en un solo acto — the group performed a one-act play

6) (=ser presentador de) [+ programa televisivo] to present, host

J. Pérez presenta el programa — the programme is presented o hosted by J. Pérez

¿quién presenta ahora las noticias de las nueve? — who presents o reads the nine o'clock news now?

7) (=tener) to have

este año el examen presenta novedades — this year the exam has some new features

el ferrocarril presenta ventajas evidentes — the train offers o has obvious advantages

el cadáver presentaba varios impactos de bala — the body had several bullet wounds

el coche presenta ciertas modificaciones — the car has had certain changes made to it

8) [+ persona] to introduce

me presentó a sus padres — he introduced me to his parents

permítanme presentarles a don Narciso Gómez — allow me to introduce Mr Narciso Gómez (to you)

te presento a Carlos — this is Carlos

a ver si te presento a mi amiga Jacinta — you must meet my friend Jacinta, I must introduce you to my friend Jacinta

ser presentada en sociedad — to come out, make one's début

9) (=ofrecer) [+ disculpa] to offer, make

presentó sus respetos — she paid her respects

le presento mis consideraciones — [en carta] yours faithfully

10) (Mil)

presentar armas — to present arms

presentar batalla — (lit) to draw up in battle array; (fig) to offer resistance

2.

See:

presentarse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) ( mostrar) to present

un producto bien presentado — a well-presented product

b) ( exponer por primera vez) <libro/disco> to launch; < obra de arte> to present; < colección de moda> to present, exhibit

c) ( entregar) <informe/solicitud> to submit

le presenté el pasaporte — I gave him my passport, I presented my passport to him

d) ( enseñar) to show

hay que presentar el carné para entrar — you have to show your membership card to get in

e) <disculpas/excusas> to make; < dimisión> to hand in, submit; < queja> to file, make

fui a presentar mis respetos — I went to pay my respects

presentaron una denuncia — they reported the matter (to the police), they made an official complaint

presentar pruebas — to present evidence

presentar cargos — to bring charges

presentar una demanda — to bring a lawsuit

f) (Mil)

presentar armas — to present arms

2) (TV) < programa> to present, introduce

3) < persona> to introduce

te presento a mi hermana — I'd like you to meet my sister, this is my sister

4) <novedad/ventaja> to offer; < síntoma> to show
2.
presentarse v pron

1)

a) ( en lugar) to turn up, appear

presentarse (como) voluntario — to volunteer

se presentó voluntariamente a la policía — he turned himself in to the police

presentarse ante el juez — to appear before the judge

b) (a concurso, examen)

se presentó al examen — she took o (BrE) sat the exam

me presenté al concurso — I entered the competition

se presenta como candidato independiente — he's running (AmE) o (BrE) he's standing as an independent

presentarse para un cargo — to apply for a post

2) dificultad/problema to arise, come up, crop up (colloq)

si se me presenta la oportunidad — if I get the opportunity, if the opportunity arises

el futuro se presenta prometedor — the future looks promising

3) ( darse a conocer) to introduce oneself

presentarse en sociedad — to make one's debut (in society)

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= bring to + the attention, display, draw, exhibit, expose, feature, introduce, open up, pose, present, provide with, set out, subject, throw up, render, put before, produce, table, submit, unveil, showcase, surrender, lay out, roll out, construct, tender, come up with, report, bring forward, deliver.

Ex. Many displays are changed from time to time (for example, once a week, or once a month) so that various sections of the stock may be brought to the attention of the library's public over a period of time.

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* argumento que presenta sólo un punto de vista = one-sided argument.

* oportunidad + presentarse = opportunity + knock, opportunity + present + Reflexivo.

* presentar Algo desde una nueva óptica = throw + Nombre + in a new light, throw + new light on.

* presentar Algo desde un nuevo ángulo = throw + new light on.

* presentar argumentos a favor = make + a case for.

* presentar argumentos a favor de = present + arguments in favour of.

* presentar como = make + Nombre + out to be.

* presentar conclusiones = provide + conclusions.

* presentar conocimiento = package + knowledge.

* presentar deficiencias = fall + short.

* presentar de manera esquemática = give + overview.

* presentar dentro de = package.

* presentar Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on, throw + new light on.

* presentar detalladamente = spread out.

* presentar dificultad = present + difficulty.

* presentar en forma de tabla = tabulate.

* presentar en pantalla = call up, print + online, bring up, screen.

* presentar evidencia a favor de = present + case for.

* presentar información = submit + information, package + information.

* presentar información de varios modos = repackage + information.

* presentar la evolución de Algo = chart + the history.

* presentar la oportunidad = allow + the opportunity to.

* presentar las pruebas ante = lay + evidence before.

* presentar peligro = present + danger.

* presentar + Posesivo + respetos = pay + Posesivo + respects.

* presentar posibilidades = present + possibilities, open (up) + avenues.

* presentar problemas = present + problems.

* presentar pruebas = give + evidence.

* presentar resultados = report + findings, report + results.

* presentar reto = defy.

* presentarse = come in, manifest + Reflexivo, turn up, show up, unfold, come forward, come with.

* presentarse a = stand for.

* presentarse a una elección = stand for + election, run for + election.

* presentarse desde una nueva perspectiva = stand in + a new light.

* presentar (según) = cast (in/into).

* presentarse una ocasión = occasion + arise.

* presentar similitudes = share + similarities.

* presentar una amenaza = pose + threat.

* presentar una comunicación = deliver + paper, give + paper, present + paper.

* presentar una contribución = present + contribution.

* presentar una demanda = file + suit against, file + lawsuit against.

* presentar una demanda judicial = take + legal action, take + legal proceedings.

* presentar una denuncia = file + police report.

* presentar una factura = submit + bill.

* presentar una idea = make + point, put forward + idea, offer + perspective, present + idea.

* presentar una imagen = present + picture, paint + a picture, present + an image.

* presentar una oportunidad = afford + opportunity.

* presentar una petición = submit + petition.

* presentar una ponencia = give + paper, read + paper.

* presentar una propuesta = submit + proposal.

* presentar una queja = register + complaint, lodge + complaint, file + complaint, file + grievance.

* presentar una reclamación = enter + complaint, place + claim, file + complaint.

* presentar un argumento = advance + argument.

* presentar una solicitud = submit + application.

* presentar un aspecto = present + a picture.

* presentar un aspecto de = wear + a look of.

* presentar una visión = present + a picture.

* presentar una visión global = give + overview, present + an overview, present + an overall picture, give + an overall picture, overview.

* presentar un buen aspecto = look + good.

* presentar un dilema = present + dilemma.

* presentar un frente común = present + common front.

* presentar un informe = give + a report, present + report.

* presentar un obstáculo = pose + obstacle.

* presentar un peligro = pose + danger.

* presentar un problema = pose + problem, air + problem.

* presentar un programa = present + programme.

* presentar un proyecto = submit + project, present + project.

* presentar un resumen = give + summary.

* presentar un reto = present + challenge, provide + challenge.

* presentar un riesgo = pose + risk.

* presentar vestigios de = bear + traces of.

* seleccionar y presentar en un documento = package.

* volver a presentar = resubmit [re-submit].

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1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) ( mostrar) to present

un producto bien presentado — a well-presented product

b) ( exponer por primera vez) <libro/disco> to launch; < obra de arte> to present; < colección de moda> to present, exhibit

c) ( entregar) <informe/solicitud> to submit

le presenté el pasaporte — I gave him my passport, I presented my passport to him

d) ( enseñar) to show

hay que presentar el carné para entrar — you have to show your membership card to get in

e) <disculpas/excusas> to make; < dimisión> to hand in, submit; < queja> to file, make

fui a presentar mis respetos — I went to pay my respects

presentaron una denuncia — they reported the matter (to the police), they made an official complaint

presentar pruebas — to present evidence

presentar cargos — to bring charges

presentar una demanda — to bring a lawsuit

f) (Mil)

presentar armas — to present arms

2) (TV) < programa> to present, introduce

3) < persona> to introduce

te presento a mi hermana — I'd like you to meet my sister, this is my sister

4) <novedad/ventaja> to offer; < síntoma> to show
2.
presentarse v pron

1)

a) ( en lugar) to turn up, appear

presentarse (como) voluntario — to volunteer

se presentó voluntariamente a la policía — he turned himself in to the police

presentarse ante el juez — to appear before the judge

b) (a concurso, examen)

se presentó al examen — she took o (BrE) sat the exam

me presenté al concurso — I entered the competition

se presenta como candidato independiente — he's running (AmE) o (BrE) he's standing as an independent

presentarse para un cargo — to apply for a post

2) dificultad/problema to arise, come up, crop up (colloq)

si se me presenta la oportunidad — if I get the opportunity, if the opportunity arises

el futuro se presenta prometedor — the future looks promising

3) ( darse a conocer) to introduce oneself

presentarse en sociedad — to make one's debut (in society)

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presentar (según)

(v.) = cast (in/into)

Ex: Which of the following subject analyses is cast in the citation order PMEST?.

= bring to + the attention, display, draw, exhibit, expose, feature, introduce, open up, pose, present, provide with, set out, subject, throw up, render, put before, produce, table, submit, unveil, showcase, surrender, lay out, roll out, construct, tender, come up with, report, bring forward, deliver.

Ex: Many displays are changed from time to time (for example, once a week, or once a month) so that various sections of the stock may be brought to the attention of the library's public over a period of time.

Ex: The command function 'DISPLAY' is used to display a list of alphabetically linked terms.

Ex: For example, when setting up the format for records in a data base, the user can draw a form on the screen, complete with headings for each field, and then, the data is entered into the form.

Ex: These headings, therefore, in addition to exhibiting a bias in favor of the majority, actively hinder access.

Ex: The reputation of the information and its authority will be more exposed to examination.

Ex: Other catalogues and bibliographies only feature added entries under title where it is deemed that the author main entry heading is not likely to be obvious to the users.

Ex: The report introduced a range of ideas which have influenced subsequent code construction.

Ex: Here is a key paper by a non librarian which opens up a new and constructive approach to library purpose.

Ex: This illustrates the puzzle that differential policies pose for users.

Ex: Informative abstract present as much as possible of the quantitative or qualitative information contained in a document.

Ex: Many libraries provide users with photocopies of contents pages of selected journals.

Ex: A short score is a sketch made by a composer for an ensemble work, with the main features of the composition set out on a few staves.

Ex: Author abstracts are the abstracts prepared by authors of the document that has been subjected to abstracting.

Ex: Demands from clients will often throw up an occurrence of similar problems, revealing perhaps the operation of an injustice, the lack of an amenity in the neighbourhood, or simply bureaucratic inefficiency.

Ex: The eventuality is, admittedly, remote but it is also necessary to render the imprint statement in this amount of detail.

Ex: The art of documentation is the process by which the documentalist is enabled to put before the creative specialist the existing literature bearing on the subject of his investigation.

Ex: The perfect librarian may be defined as one who produces the information a reader requires as soon as the reader asks for it.

Ex: This list indicates the dates the reports were tabled and any further action take.

Ex: Most publications are probably free distribution material and whilst that does not absolve the publishers from the obligation of legal deposit it is probable that many local authorities do not submit their materials.

Ex: Here is an institution which knows, neither rank nor wealth within its walls, which stops the ignorant peer or the ignorant monarch at its threshold, and declines to unveil to him its treasures, or to waste time upon him, and yet welcomes the workman according to his knowledge or thirst for knowledge.

Ex: Officially known as SOLEX, this exhibition showcases mainly IT based products for the legal profession.

Ex: The book's date label is stamped in the usual way, and the reader must surrender one token for each book he is borrowing.

Ex: There should be plenty of space to lay out all the books attractively and for people to move about without feeling too crowded.

Ex: I don't need to tell those of you from higher education institutions how course management systems are starting to really proliferate and roll out in higher education.

Ex: It is argued that newspaper reporting of bigamy constructs bigamists as being a threat to the institution of marriage.

Ex: This address was tendered at the State Library of Victoria, Nov 88, to mark the retirement of Professor Jean Whyte.

Ex: Derfer corroborated her: 'I'd be very proud of you if you could come up with the means to draft a model collection development policy'.

Ex: Criticism is not appropriate in a style which aims to report, but not comment upon the content of the original document.

Ex: They also intend to bring forward legislation to provide that the maximum amount of compensation should be £500,000.

Ex: The result could be termed a full-provision data base -- a data base including both text and reference, and delivering much more than the 2 added together.

* argumento que presenta sólo un punto de vista = one-sided argument.

* oportunidad + presentarse = opportunity + knock, opportunity + present + Reflexivo.

* presentar Algo desde una nueva óptica = throw + Nombre + in a new light, throw + new light on.

* presentar Algo desde un nuevo ángulo = throw + new light on.

* presentar argumentos a favor = make + a case for.

* presentar argumentos a favor de = present + arguments in favour of.

* presentar como = make + Nombre + out to be.

* presentar conclusiones = provide + conclusions.

* presentar conocimiento = package + knowledge.

* presentar deficiencias = fall + short.

* presentar de manera esquemática = give + overview.

* presentar dentro de = package.

* presentar Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on, throw + new light on.

* presentar detalladamente = spread out.

* presentar dificultad = present + difficulty.

* presentar en forma de tabla = tabulate.

* presentar en pantalla = call up, print + online, bring up, screen.

* presentar evidencia a favor de = present + case for.

* presentar información = submit + information, package + information.

* presentar información de varios modos = repackage + information.

* presentar la evolución de Algo = chart + the history.

* presentar la oportunidad = allow + the opportunity to.

* presentar las pruebas ante = lay + evidence before.

* presentar peligro = present + danger.

* presentar + Posesivo + respetos = pay + Posesivo + respects.

* presentar posibilidades = present + possibilities, open (up) + avenues.

* presentar problemas = present + problems.

* presentar pruebas = give + evidence.

* presentar resultados = report + findings, report + results.

* presentar reto = defy.

* presentarse = come in, manifest + Reflexivo, turn up, show up, unfold, come forward, come with.

* presentarse a = stand for.

* presentarse a una elección = stand for + election, run for + election.

* presentarse desde una nueva perspectiva = stand in + a new light.

* presentar (según) = cast (in/into).

* presentarse una ocasión = occasion + arise.

* presentar similitudes = share + similarities.

* presentar una amenaza = pose + threat.

* presentar una comunicación = deliver + paper, give + paper, present + paper.

* presentar una contribución = present + contribution.

* presentar una demanda = file + suit against, file + lawsuit against.

* presentar una demanda judicial = take + legal action, take + legal proceedings.

* presentar una denuncia = file + police report.

* presentar una factura = submit + bill.

* presentar una idea = make + point, put forward + idea, offer + perspective, present + idea.

* presentar una imagen = present + picture, paint + a picture, present + an image.

* presentar una oportunidad = afford + opportunity.

* presentar una petición = submit + petition.

* presentar una ponencia = give + paper, read + paper.

* presentar una propuesta = submit + proposal.

* presentar una queja = register + complaint, lodge + complaint, file + complaint, file + grievance.

* presentar una reclamación = enter + complaint, place + claim, file + complaint.

* presentar un argumento = advance + argument.

* presentar una solicitud = submit + application.

* presentar un aspecto = present + a picture.

* presentar un aspecto de = wear + a look of.

* presentar una visión = present + a picture.

* presentar una visión global = give + overview, present + an overview, present + an overall picture, give + an overall picture, overview.

* presentar un buen aspecto = look + good.

* presentar un dilema = present + dilemma.

* presentar un frente común = present + common front.

* presentar un informe = give + a report, present + report.

* presentar un obstáculo = pose + obstacle.

* presentar un peligro = pose + danger.

* presentar un problema = pose + problem, air + problem.

* presentar un programa = present + programme.

* presentar un proyecto = submit + project, present + project.

* presentar un resumen = give + summary.

* presentar un reto = present + challenge, provide + challenge.

* presentar un riesgo = pose + risk.

* presentar vestigios de = bear + traces of.

* seleccionar y presentar en un documento = package.

* volver a presentar = resubmit [re-submit].

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presentar [A1 ]

vt

A

1 (mostrar) to present

un producto bien presentado a well-presented product

2 (exponer por primera vez) ‹libro/disco› to launch

presentó sus nuevos cuadros she presented her new paintings

presentará su colección de otoño en Londres he will present o exhibit his autumn collection in London

el nuevo XS34 se presentará al público en el salón de Turín the new XS34 will be on display (to the public) for the first time at the Turin show

3 (entregar) ‹informe/solicitud› to submit

le presenté el pasaporte para que me lo sellara I gave him my passport for stamping, I presented my passport to him for stamping

tengo que presentar los planes mañana I have to submit o present the plans tomorrow

4 (enseñar) to show

hay que presentar el carné para entrar you have to show your membership card to get in

5 ‹disculpas/excusas› to make

fui a presentar mis respetos I went to pay my respects

presentó su dimisión she handed in o submitted her resignation, she resigned

pienso presentar una queja I intend filing o making a complaint

presentaron una denuncia they reported the matter (to the police), they made an official complaint

presentar pruebas to present evidence

presentar cargos to bring charges

presentar una demanda to bring a lawsuit

6 ( Mil):

presentar armas to present arms

B (TV) ‹programa› to present, introduce

C [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] ‹persona› to introduce

el director presentó al conferenciante the director introduced the speaker

me presentó a su familia he introduced me to his family

te presento a mi hermana I'd like you to meet my sister/this is my sister

D

(mostrar, ofrecer): el nuevo modelo presenta algunas novedades the latest model has o offers some new features

presenta muchas ventajas para el consumidor it offers the consumer many advantages

el paciente no presentaba síntomas de intoxicación the patient showed no signs of food poisoning

el cadáver presenta un impacto de bala en el costado ( frml); there is a bullet wound in the side of the body, the body has a bullet wound in the side

■ presentarse

v pron

A

1 (en un lugar) to turn up, appear

se presentó en casa sin avisar he turned up o showed up o appeared at the house unexpectedly

se presentó (como) voluntario he volunteered

se presentó voluntariamente a la policía he turned himself in to the police

tendrá que presentarse ante el juez he will have to appear before the judge

2

(a un concurso, examen): se presentó al examen she took o ( BrE) sat the exam

me presenté al concurso I entered the competition

se presenta como candidato independiente he's an independent candidate, he's running as an independent ( AmE), he's standing as an independent ( BrE)

se presentó para el cargo de director he applied for the post of director

B «dificultad/problema» to arise, come up, crop up ( colloq)

estaré allí salvo que se presente algún impedimento I'll be there unless something crops up o comes up

si se me presenta la oportunidad if I get the opportunity, if the opportunity arises

el futuro se presenta prometedor the future looks promising

el asunto se presenta muy mal things are looking very bad

C (darse a conocer) to introduce oneself

permítame que me presente allow me to introduce myself

presentarse en sociedad to make one's debut (in society)

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presentar ( conjugate presentar) verbo transitivo
1
a) ( mostrar) to present

b) ( exponer por primera vez) ‹libro/disco› to launch;

‹ obra de arte› to present;
‹ colección de moda› to present, exhibit
c) ( entregar) ‹informe/solicitud› to submit;

‹ trabajo› to hand in;
‹ renuncia› to hand in, submit
d) ( enseñar) ‹carnet/pasaporte› to show

e) ‹disculpas/excusas› to make;

‹ queja› to file, make;
‹ cargos› to bring;
◊ presentaron una denuncia they reported the matter (to the police), they made an official complaint;

presentar pruebas to present evidence
f) (Mil):

◊ presentar armas to present arms

2 (TV) ‹ programa› to present, introduce
3 ‹ persona› to introduce;
◊ te presento a mi hermana I'd like you to meet my sister, this is my sister

4 ‹novedad/ventaja› to offer;
‹ síntoma› to show
presentarse verbo pronominal
1
a) ( en lugar) to turn up, appear;

◊ presentarse (como) voluntario to volunteer

b) presentarse a algo ‹ a examen› to take sth;

‹ a concurso› to enter sth;
‹ a elecciones› to take part in sth;
◊ se presenta como candidato independiente he's running (AmE) o (BrE) he's standing as an independent;

presentarse para un cargo to apply for a post
2 [dificultad/problema] to arise, come up;
[ oportunidad] to arise
3 ( darse a conocer) to introduce oneself
presentar verbo transitivo
1 (un programa, pruebas, etc) to present
2 (un producto) to launch
3 (a una persona) to introduce
4 (síntomas, características, etc) to have, show
5 (disculpas) to give, present
(condolencias) to give, pay
6 (la dimisión) to hand in
7 (una queja) to file, make
' presentar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
alegar
- compeler
- convenir
- dimisión
- esquema
- revestir
- dar
- demanda
- denuncia
- introducir
- licitar
- moción
- queja
- querella
- renuncia
English:
bring forward
- charge
- claim
- field
- file
- hand in
- host
- introduce
- lay
- lodge
- make out
- model
- pay
- present
- press
- produce
- put in
- put on
- put up
- register
- render
- replay
- report
- represent
- rerun
- respect
- serve up
- set out
- show
- slant
- star
- submit
- table
- this
- bring
- come
- display
- enter
- exhibit
- float
- hand
- notice
- propose
- put
- retake
- sponsor
- tender

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presentar

♦ vt

1. [mostrar, entregar] to present;
[dimisión] to tender, to hand in; [tesis] to hand in, to submit; [pruebas, propuesta] to submit; [recurso, denuncia] to lodge; [solicitud] to make; [moción] to propose;
presente su pasaporte en la ventanilla show your passport at the window;

presentar cargos/una demanda contra alguien to bring charges/an action against sb;

¡presenten armas! [en ejército] present arms!;

es un trabajo muy bien presentado it is a very well presented piece of work

2. [dar a conocer] to introduce;

me presentó a sus amigos she introduced me to her friends;

Juan, te presento a Carmen Juan, this is Carmen;

me parece que no nos han presentado I don't think we've been introduced;

permítame que le presente a nuestra directora allow me to introduce you to our manager, I'd like you to meet our manager;

no se conocían, pero yo los presenté they didn't know each other, but I introduced them (to each other)

3. [anunciar] [programa de radio o televisión] to present;
[espectáculo] to compere;
la mujer que presenta el telediario the woman who reads the news on TV

4. [proponer para competición] [obra] to enter;

presentar una novela a un premio literario to enter a novel for a literary prize;

presentar una película a concurso to enter a film at a film festival;

presentar a alguien para algo to propose sb for sth, to put sb forward for sth;

el partido presentará a la señora Cruz para la alcaldía the party is putting Mrs Cruz forward for the office of mayor, Mrs Cruz will be the party's candidate for the office of mayor

5. [exhibir por primera vez] [planes, presupuestos] to present;
[película] to premiere; [libro, disco] to launch;
el club presentó a su último fichaje ante la prensa the club introduced its new signing to the press

6. [ofrecer] [disculpas, excusas] to make;
[respetos] to pay;
nos presentó (sus) disculpas he made his excuses to us

7. [tener] [aspecto, características, novedades] to have;

este fondo de inversión presenta grandes ventajas this investment fund offers o has big advantages;

la playa presenta un aspecto deplorable the beach is in a terrible state;

presenta difícil solución it's going to be difficult to solve;

el paciente presentaba síntomas de deshidratación the patient presented symptoms of dehydration

♦ See also the pronominal verb presentarse

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presentar

v/t

1 TV present

2 a alguien introduce

3 producto launch

4 solicitud submit

* * *

presentar vt

1) : to present, to show

2) : to offer, to give

3) : to submit (a document), to launch (a product)

4) : to introduce (a person)

♦ See also the reflexive verb presentarse

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presentar vb

1. (personas) to introduce

me presentó a su marido she introduced me to her husband

te presento a Iván this is Iván / meet Iván

2. (programa, idea, propuesta) to present

3. (un producto) to launch

el escritor presenta su nuevo libro the writer is launching his new book

4. (señales, aspecto) to have / to show [pt. showed; pp. shown]

el paciente presenta muy buen aspecto the patient looks quite well

Spanish-English dictionary > presentar
9 campaña electoral

f.

election campaign, canvassing, electioneering, hustings.

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campaña electoral

election campaign

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electoral o election campaign

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(n.) = election campaign, election race

Ex. This was originally intended as a set of speaking notes for candidates and others in the 1979 direct election campaign.

Ex. Such discussions become circular and self-perpetuating, and self-congratulating, very quickly -- as the Howard Dean Campaign discovered, too late and fatally, during the current US Presidential election race.

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electoral o election campaign

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(n.) = election campaign, election race

Ex: This was originally intended as a set of speaking notes for candidates and others in the 1979 direct election campaign.

Ex: Such discussions become circular and self-perpetuating, and self-congratulating, very quickly -- as the Howard Dean Campaign discovered, too late and fatally, during the current US Presidential election race.

* * *

campaña electoral

election campaign

Spanish-English dictionary > campaña electoral
10 aufstellen

(trennb., hat -ge-)

I v/t

1. (hinstellen) set up, put up; (anordnen); in einer Reihe: line up; (stapeln) stack; (Wachposten) post, station

2. (aufrichten) (Umgefallenes) ( wieder) aufstellen stand up (again); (Kragen) turn up (one’s collar); (Ohren, Stacheln) prick up; (Fell) bristle

3. (aufbauen) (Falle) set; (Leiter) stand up; (montieren) assemble, mount; (Gerät, Maschine) install, put in ( oder up), fit; (Baracke) construct, set up; (Gerüst) erect, put ( oder set) up; (Zelt) pitch; (Denkmal, Schild etc.) erect, put up; MIL. (Raketen etc.) deploy

4. (zusammenstellen) (Mannschaft) pick, select, put together; (Truppen) raise

5. (benennen) (Kandidaten) put forward, field; jemanden als Kandidaten aufstellen nominate s.o. as a candidate; sich für eine Wahl aufstellen lassen run (oder Brit. stand) (as a candidate) for election

6. (ausarbeiten) (Liste, Tabelle, Bilanz) draw up

7. (formulieren) (Grundsatz) lay down, establish; (Regel) make, put forward; (Theorie) propose, advance; MATH. (Problem) state, pose; (Gleichung) form, set up; eine Behauptung aufstellen make an assertion, claim ( oder maintain) s.th.; eine Forderung aufstellen put forward a claim, make a demand

8. WIRTS. die Kosten aufstellen state the charges, itemize the costs; eine Statistik aufstellen draw up statistics Pl.; eine Rechnung aufstellen draw ( oder make) up a bill

9. SPORT: (Rekord) set (up), establish

10. Dial. (Essen auf den Herd) put on

II v/refl

1. Person: position o.s., take one’s stand ( vor in front of); in Reihen: get into line; Pl. line up; MIL. fall in; (hintereinander) form a queue (Am. line); sich im Kreis aufstellen form a circle

2. Fell, Haare: bristle, rise; Ohren, Stacheln: prick up

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to set; to plant; to arrange; to station; to situate; to position; to embattle; to dispose; to put up;

sich aufstellen

to line up

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auf|stel|len sep
1. vt

1) (= aufrichten, aufbauen) to put up (
auf +dat on); etw Liegendes to stand up; Zelt to pitch, to put up; Schild, Mast, Denkmal to erect, to put up; Kegel to set up; Maschine to put in, to install; Falle to set; (MIL) to deploy; (= postieren) Wachposten to post, to station; Wagen to line up; (= hochstellen) Kragen to turn up; (= aufrichten) Ohren, Stacheln to prick up
2) Essen etc ( auf Herd) to put on

3) (fig = zusammenstellen) Truppe to raise; (SPORT ) Spieler to select, to pick; Mannschaft to draw up

4) (= benennen) Kandidaten to nominate

5) (= erzielen) Rekord to set (up)

6) Forderung, Behauptung, Vermutung to put forward; System to establish; Programm, Satzungen, Rechnung to draw up; Liste to make, to draw up

7)

See:

→ aufgestellt

2. vr

1) (= sich postieren) to stand; (hintereinander) to line up; (Soldaten) to fall into line

sich im Karree/Kreis etc áúfstellen — to form a square/circle etc

2) (Ohren etc) to prick up

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1) (to arrange in an acceptable form or order: They drew up the soldiers in line; The solicitor drew up a contract for them to sign.) draw up

2) (to set upright (a mast etc).) erect

3) (to arrange or construct: He set up the apparatus for the experiment.) set up

4) (to arrange soldiers in order: The colonel paraded his soldiers.) parade

5) (to put in a row or rows: The two armies were ranged on opposite sides of the valley.) range

6) (to put (a person, oneself, troops etc in a place or position to perform some duty): He stationed himself at the corner of the road to keep watch; The regiment is stationed abroad.) station

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auf|stel·len

I. vt

1. (aufbauen)

▪ etw \aufstellen to put up sth sep

eine Anlage/Maschine \aufstellen to install a system/machine [or sep put in]

ein Denkmal \aufstellen to erect [or raise] a monument

eine Falle \aufstellen to set [or lay] a trap

einen Mast/eine Wand \aufstellen to erect [or put up] a mast/wall

ein Schild \aufstellen to put up a plaque

2. (erheben)

▪ etw \aufstellen to put forward [or form forth] sth sep

3. (ausarbeiten)

▪ etw \aufstellen to draw up sth sep

eine Theorie \aufstellen to elaborate a theory a. form

4. (erstellen)

▪ etw \aufstellen to draw up sep [or make [out sep]] sth

eine Rechnung \aufstellen to make out [or up] sep an invoice

eine Tabelle \aufstellen to compile [or sep make up] a table

5. (nominieren)

▪ jdn [als etw/für etw akk] \aufstellen to nominate sb [sth/for [or as] sth]

6. (postieren)

▪ jdn \aufstellen to post [or station] sb

7. (formieren)

eine Mannschaft \aufstellen to organize a team [or to field a team]

Truppen \aufstellen to raise [or muster] troops

8. (aufsetzen)

▪ etw \aufstellen to put on sth sep

9. (erzielen)

▪ etw \aufstellen to set sth

10. (wieder hinstellen)

▪ etw \aufstellen to stand up sth sep, to set sth upright

11. (aufrichten)

▪ etw \aufstellen to prick up sth sep

12. SCHWEIZ (aufmuntern)

▪ jdn \aufstellen to pick [or perk] up sb sep

▪ aufgestellt [sein] [to be] perky

II. vr

1. (sich hinstellen)

▪ sich akk \aufstellen to stand; Wachen to be posted

sich akk vor dem Tor \aufstellen to stand [or a. hum plant oneself] in front of the goal

sich akk hintereinander \aufstellen to line up; Soldaten to fall into line

sich akk im Kreis \aufstellen to form a circle

2. (sich hochstellen) Haare to raise, to bristle; Ohren to prick up; Katzenfell to bristle

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1.
transitives Verb

1) (hinstellen) put up (auf + Akk. on); set up < skittles>; (aufrecht stellen) stand up

2) (postieren) post; station

3) (bilden) put together < team>; raise < army>; (Sport) select, pick < team>

4) (nominieren) nominate; put up; (Sport): (auswählen) select, pick < player>

5) (errichten) put up; put up, erect <scaffolding, monument>; put in, install < machine>

6) (hochstellen) erect < spines>; turn up < collar>; prick up < ears>

7) (ausarbeiten) work out <programme, budget, plan>; draw up <statute, balance sheet>; make [out], draw up < list>; set up < hypothesis>; establish < norm>; prepare < statistics>; devise < formula>

8) (erzielen) set up, establish < record>

9) (formulieren) put forward <theory, conjecture, demand>
2.
reflexives Verb position or place oneself; take up position; (in einer Reihe, zum Tanz) line up

sich im Kreis aufstellen — form a circle

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aufstellen (trennb, hat -ge-)

A. v/t

1. (hinstellen) set up, put up; (anordnen); in einer Reihe: line up; (stapeln) stack; (Wachposten) post, station

2. (aufrichten) (Umgefallenes)

(wieder) aufstellen stand up (again); (Kragen) turn up (one’s collar); (Ohren, Stacheln) prick up; (Fell) bristle

3. (aufbauen) (Falle) set; (Leiter) stand up; (montieren) assemble, mount; (Gerät, Maschine) install, put in ( oder up), fit; (Baracke) construct, set up; (Gerüst) erect, put ( oder set) up; (Zelt) pitch; (Denkmal, Schild etc) erect, put up; MIL (Raketen etc) deploy

4. (zusammenstellen) (Mannschaft) pick, select, put together; (Truppen) raise

5. (benennen) (Kandidaten) put forward, field;

jemanden als Kandidaten aufstellen nominate sb as a candidate;

sich für eine Wahl aufstellen lassen run (oder Br stand) (as a candidate) for election

6. (ausarbeiten) (Liste, Tabelle, Bilanz) draw up

7. (formulieren) (Grundsatz) lay down, establish; (Regel) make, put forward; (Theorie) propose, advance; MATH (Problem) state, pose; (Gleichung) form, set up;

eine Behauptung aufstellen make an assertion, claim ( oder maintain) sth;

eine Forderung aufstellen put forward a claim, make a demand

8. WIRTSCH

die Kosten aufstellen state the charges, itemize the costs;

eine Statistik aufstellen draw up statistics pl;

eine Rechnung aufstellen draw ( oder make) up a bill

9. SPORT: (Rekord) set (up), establish

10. dial (Essen auf den Herd) put on

B. v/r

1. Person: position o.s., take one’s stand (

vor in front of); in Reihen: get into line; pl line up; MIL fall in; (hintereinander) form a queue (US line);

sich im Kreis aufstellen form a circle

2. Fell, Haare: bristle, rise; Ohren, Stacheln: prick up

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1.
transitives Verb

1) (hinstellen) put up (auf + Akk. on); set up < skittles>; (aufrecht stellen) stand up

2) (postieren) post; station

3) (bilden) put together < team>; raise < army>; (Sport) select, pick < team>

4) (nominieren) nominate; put up; (Sport): (auswählen) select, pick < player>

5) (errichten) put up; put up, erect <scaffolding, monument>; put in, install < machine>

6) (hochstellen) erect < spines>; turn up < collar>; prick up < ears>

7) (ausarbeiten) work out <programme, budget, plan>; draw up <statute, balance sheet>; make [out], draw up < list>; set up < hypothesis>; establish < norm>; prepare < statistics>; devise < formula>

8) (erzielen) set up, establish < record>

9) (formulieren) put forward <theory, conjecture, demand>
2.
reflexives Verb position or place oneself; take up position; (in einer Reihe, zum Tanz) line up

sich im Kreis aufstellen — form a circle

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n.

deployment n.

placement n.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > aufstellen
11 campaña

f.

bell.

echar las campanas al vuelo (figurative) to jump for joy

oír campanas y no saber dónde (informal figurative) not to know what one is talking about

campana de buzo o de salvamento diving bell

campana extractora (de humos) extractor hood

campanas tubulares tubular bells

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campana

► nombre femenino

1 (gen) bell

2 (de chimenea) mantelpiece

3 familiar (extractora) extractor hood, (US stove extractor hood)

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FRASEOLOGÍA

a toque de campana figurado to the sound of bells

dar una vuelta de campana to overturn, roll over

echar las campanas al vuelo figurado to set all the bells ringing

oír campanas y no saber dónde figurado not to have a clue

tañer las campanas / tocar las campanas to ring the bells

campana de buzo diving bell

campana de cristal bell jar, bell glass

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noun f.

bell

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1. SF

1) [de iglesia, puerta] bell; [de orquesta] bell, chime

a campana tañida, a toque de campana — to the sound of bells

- echar o lanzar las campanas a vuelo

aún es pronto para echar las campanas al vuelo — it's still too early to celebrate o to start spreading the good news

- estar campana

- hacer campanas

- oír campanas y no saber de dónde vienen

2) (Téc) [de la chimenea] hood

campana de humos, campana extractora — extractor hood

3) (Buceo)

campana de buzo, campana de inmersión — diving bell

4) Cono Sur (=campo) country(side)

2.

SMF LAm * (=vigilante) look-out

hacer de campana — to keep watch

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femenino

1)

a) ( de iglesia) bell, church bell

echar las campanas al or a vuelo — ( literal) to set the bells ringing; ( anunciar jubilosamente)

aún es pronto para echar las campanas al vuelo — it's too soon to start shouting about it

tampoco es como para echar las campanas al vuelo — it's not worth getting that excited about

me/te/lo salvó la campana — saved by the bell

oír campanas y no saber dónde: ese tipo ha oído campanas y no sabe dónde — that guy is talking through his hat (colloq)

b) ( en el colegio) bell

tocar la campana — to ring the bell

¿ya ha sonado la campana? — has the bell gone yet?

2)

a) ( de chimenea) hood; ( de cocina) extractor hood

b) ( para proteger alimentos) cover

•

- campana de buzo or de inmersión

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= campaign, drive, push, crackdown.

Ex. The year saw a library fair in Gothenburg and a 3 minutes silent strike by cultural workers during the general election campaign.

Ex. Hierarchical bibliometry would act as a positive drive to support the authorship requirements now stipulated by some international editorial committees.

Ex. The key issue to note here is that the global push to describe and document Indigenous knowledge is gaining momentum.

Ex. As part of the worldwide revulsion against the fierce crackdown of peaceful dissidents now occurring in Cuba, the U.S. Congress has voted 414-0 to condemn the Cuban government for raiding 22 libraries.

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* campana de Gauss = bell-shaped curve, bell curve.

* campana de inmersión = pressure vessel.

* campana + sonar = bell + ring.

* campaña contra la conducción bajo la influencia del alcohol = drink-drive campaign, anti-drink-drive campaign.

* campaña de ahorro = economy drive.

* campaña de alfabetización = literacy campaign, literacy movement.

* campaña de captación de socios = membership drive.

* campaña de concienciación de la gente = awareness raising [awareness-raising].

* campaña de control de alcoholemia = drink-drive campaign, anti-drink-drive campaign.

* campaña de difamación = smear campaign.

* campaña de promoción = promotional campaign, advocacy.

* campaña de publicidad = publicity campaign, press campaign.

* campaña de recaudación de fondos = fundraising campaign.

* campaña de relaciones públicas = public relations campaign.

* campaña de terror = terror campaign.

* campaña de violencia = campaign of violence.

* campaña electoral = election campaign, election race.

* campaña militar = military campaign.

* campaña política = political campaign.

* campaña presidencial = presidential campaign.

* campaña publicitaria = advertising campaign, publicity campaign, media campaign, press campaign.

* cañón de campaña = field gun.

* catre de campaña = camp bed, cot.

* hacer campaña = campaign, stump, go out on + the road.

* tienda de campaña = tent.

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femenino

1)

a) ( de iglesia) bell, church bell

echar las campanas al or a vuelo — ( literal) to set the bells ringing; ( anunciar jubilosamente)

aún es pronto para echar las campanas al vuelo — it's too soon to start shouting about it

tampoco es como para echar las campanas al vuelo — it's not worth getting that excited about

me/te/lo salvó la campana — saved by the bell

oír campanas y no saber dónde: ese tipo ha oído campanas y no sabe dónde — that guy is talking through his hat (colloq)

b) ( en el colegio) bell

tocar la campana — to ring the bell

¿ya ha sonado la campana? — has the bell gone yet?

2)

a) ( de chimenea) hood; ( de cocina) extractor hood

b) ( para proteger alimentos) cover

•

- campana de buzo or de inmersión

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= bell.

Ex: In addition, one must not forget such mundane matters as door bells (front and back), a closing bell, fire bells, security alarms and possibly others all of which must be noticeably different.

* campana de la chimenea = chimney breast.

* dar una vuelta de campana = capsize, somersault, do + a somersault, summersault.

* pantalones de campana = flares.

* salvado por la campana = saved by the bell.

* vuelta de campana = somersault, summersault.

* vuelta de campana hacia atrás = backflip.

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campana

feminine

A

1 (de iglesia) bell, church bell

a lo lejos se oía repicar las campanas you could hear the church bells ringing in the distance

las campanas doblan a muerto the bells are ringing o tolling the death knell

echar las campanas al or a vuelo (literal) to set the bells ringing

(anunciar jubilosamente): no quiere echar las campanas al vuelo hasta no estar seguro he doesn't want to start shouting about it o shouting from the rooftops until he knows for sure

pero tampoco es como para echar las campanas al vuelo but it's not worth getting that excited about

me/te/lo salvó la campana saved by the bell

oír campanas y no saber dónde: ese tío ha oído campanas y no sabe dónde that guy is talking through his hat ( colloq)

2 (en el colegio) bell

¿ya ha sonado la campana? has the bell gone yet?

tocar la campana to ring the bell

B

1 (de la chimenea) hood; (de la cocina) extractor hood

2 (para proteger alimentos) cover

Compuestos:

● campana de buzo

diving bell

● campana de inmersión

diving bell

C (de un instrumento de viento) bell

D

campana masculine and feminine (Per, RPl arg); lookout

estar or hacer de campana to keep watch

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Multiple Entries:
campana
campaña
campana sustantivo femenino
a) (de iglesia, colegio) bell;

◊ oía las campañas I could hear the bells ringing;

tocar la campaña to ring the bell;
¿ya ha sonado la campaña? has the bell gone yet?
b) ( de chimenea) hood;

( de cocina) extractor hood
campaña sustantivo femenino
campaign;
◊ campaña electoral electoral o election campaign;

campaña publicitaria advertising campaign;
hacer una campaña to run o conduct a campaign
campana sustantivo femenino
1 (de iglesia, colegio) bell
2 Cost bell-bottom 3 campana extractora, extractor hood
vuelta de campana, roll over
♦ Locuciones: familiar figurado echar las campanas al vuelo, to start shouting about it
campaña sustantivo femenino
1 (electoral, etc) campaign
2 Mil expedition
♦ Locuciones: Mil (cocina, hospital, etc) de campaña, field

' campaña' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
amarrar
- antidroga
- antitabaco
- campana
- carpa
- electoral
- estratega
- forma
- inoculación
- neutralizar
- orientar
- pro
- retintín
- tañido
- tienda
- tocar
- vuelta
- alfabetización
- calar
- campanada
- campanilla
- catre
- desmontar
- desplegar
- exitoso
- fundir
- informativo
- limpio
- montar
- publicitario
- recoger
- tañer
- toque
- viento
English:
agitate
- aim
- back
- bell
- bell-bottoms
- campaign
- canvass
- canvasser
- counteract
- drive
- electioneering
- flag
- flap
- flare
- hate
- hustings
- launch
- launching
- marketing
- mount
- pitch
- publicity
- push
- ring
- sales campaign
- smear campaign
- somersault
- tent
- think up
- toll
- turn over
- wage
- appeal
- ground
- hood
- roll
- smear

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campana nf

1. [de iglesia] bell;

Comp

echar las campanas al vuelo: no queremos echar las campanas al vuelo antes de tiempo we don't want to start celebrating prematurely;

es pronto para echar las campanas al vuelo let's not count our chickens before they're hatched;

Comp
Fam
oír campanas y no saber dónde not to know what one is talking about;

Comp

te ha salvado la campana (you were) saved by the bell

Comp
campana de buzo diving bell;
campana extractora (de humos) Br extractor hood, US exhaust hood;
Mat campana de Gauss normal distribution curve, US bell curve;
campana de salvamento diving bell

2. [de chimenea] chimney breast

3. [para alimentos]
campana (de cristal) glass cover

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campana

f

1 bell;

doblar las campanas toll the bells;

echar las campanas al vuelo fig get excited, get carried away;

dar una vuelta de campana AUTO flip over

2 de chimenea hood

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campana nf

: bell

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campana n bell

las campanas de la iglesia the church bells

campana extractora extractor hood

Spanish-English dictionary > campaña
12 présenter

présenter [pʀezɑ̃te]

➭ TABLE 1

1. transitive verb

   a. [+ personne] to introduce (à to) ( dans into)

• je vous présente ma femme this is my wife

   b. [+ billet, passeport] to show

   c. ( = proposer au public) [+ marchandises, pièce, émission, jeux] to present

   d. ( = exposer) [+ problème] to explain ; [+ idées] to present

• un travail mal présenté a badly presented piece of work

• présentez-lui cela avec tact put it to him tactfully

   e. ( = exprimer) [+ excuses, condoléances, félicitations] to offer

   f. ( = comporter) [+ avantage, intérêt] to have ; [+ différences] to reveal ; [+ risque, difficulté] to entail

• cette méthode présente de nombreux défauts this method has a number of flaws

• la situation présente un caractère d'urgence the situation is urgent

   g. ( = soumettre) [+ note, facture, devis, bilan, projet de loi] to present ; [+ thèse] to submit

• présenter sa candidature à un poste to apply for a job

• il a présenté sa démission he has handed in his resignation

• à l'examen, il a présenté un texte de Camus [élève] he chose a text by Camus for the exam

2. intransitive verb

[personne] présenter bien to come over well

3. reflexive verb

► se présenter

   a. ( = se rendre) to appear

• se présenter chez qn to go to sb's house

• je ne peux pas me présenter dans cette tenue I can't appear dressed like this

• « ne pas écrire, se présenter » (dans une annonce) "applicants should apply in person"

• se présenter à l'audience to appear in court

   b. ( = être candidat) se présenter à [+ examen] to take ; [+ concours] to go in for

• se présenter aux élections to stand (Brit) or run (US) for election

   c. ( = se faire connaître) to introduce o.s. (à to)

   d. ( = surgir) [occasion] to arise ; [difficulté] to crop up ; [solution] to present itself

• il faut attendre que quelque chose se présente we must wait until something turns up

   e. ( = apparaître) l'affaire se présente bien/mal things are looking good/aren't looking good

• comment se présente le problème ? what exactly is the problem?

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pʀezɑ̃te
1.

verbe transitif

1) ( faire connaître) to introduce (à to); ( de manière officielle) to present ( à quelqu'un to somebody)

je vous présente mon fils — this is my son, may I introduce my son?

il n'est pas nécessaire de vous présenter Pierre — Pierre needs no introduction from me

2) ( montrer) to show [ticket, carte, menu]

présenter une troupe à — to parade troops before

‘présentez armes!’ — ‘present arms!’

3) ( proposer au public) to present [spectacle, vedette, rétrospective, collection]; Radio, Télévision to present [journal, émission]; Commerce to display [marchandises]

4) ( soumettre) to present [facture, addition]; to submit [devis, rapport]; to table [motion]; to introduce [proposition, projet de loi]

présenter quelqu'un à — to put somebody forward for [poste, élection]

présenter une liste pour les élections — to put forward a list (of candidates) for the elections

présenter une proposition à un comité — to put a proposal to a committee

5) ( exposer) to present [situation, budget]; to expound, to present [théorie]; to set out [point de vue]

présenter quelqu'un comme (étant) un monstre — to portray somebody as a monster

être présenté comme miraculeux — to be described as miraculous

être présenté comme un modèle — to be held up as a model

comment allez-vous leur présenter l'affaire? — how are you going to put the matter to them?

6) ( exprimer) to offer [condoléances] (à to)

présenter des excuses — to apologize (à to)

7) ( comporter) to involve, to present [risque, difficulté]; to show [différences, trace]; to show, to present [symptôme]; to offer [avantage]; to have [aspect, particularité, défaut]

présenter un grand intérêt/peu d'intérêt — to be of great interest/of little interest

8) ( orienter)

présenter son visage au soleil — to turn one's face to the sun

présenter le flanc à l'ennemi — Armée to offer its flank to the enemy

2.

verbe intransitif

présenter bien — to have a smart appearance

présenter mal — not to have a smart appearance

3.

se présenter verbe pronominal

1) ( paraître) to appear; ( aller) to go; ( venir) to come

se présenter à l'audience — Droit to appear in court

en arrivant, il faut se présenter à la réception — when you arrive you must go ou report to reception

comment oses-tu te présenter chez moi? — how dare you show your face at my house?

2) ( se faire connaître) to introduce oneself (à to)

se présenter comme le or en libérateur du pays — to make oneself out to be the country's saviour

3) ( se porter candidat)

se présenter à — to take [examen, concours]; to stand for [élections]

se présenter sur la même liste que — to stand GB ou run alongside somebody

4) ( survenir) [occasion, difficulté, problème] to arise, to present itself; [solution] to emerge

lire/manger tout ce qui se présente — to read/to eat anything that comes along

les difficultés qui se présentent à nous — the difficulties with which we are faced ou confronted

un spectacle étonnant se présenta à mes yeux — an amazing sight met my eyes

5) ( exister) [médicament, produit]

se présenter en, se présenter sous forme de — to come in the form of

6) ( s'annoncer)

l'affaire se présente bien — things are looking good

comment se présente la situation sur le front? — what is the situation at the front?

7) Médecine

comment se présente l'enfant? — how is the baby presenting?

le bébé se présente par le siège — the baby is in the breech position

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pʀezɑ̃te
1. vt

1) [personne] to introduce

présenter qn à qn — to introduce sb to sb

Il m'a présenté à sa sœur. — He introduced me to his sister.

Marc, je te présente Anaïs. — Marc, this is Anaïs.

2) [spectacle, émission] to present

Il présentait le spectacle. — He presented the show.

3) (= montrer) [billet, pièce d'identité] to show, to produce

4) (= faire inscrire) [candidat] to put forward

5) (= exprimer) [félicitations, condoléances] to offer

6) (= soumettre) [bilan, facture, loi] to submit

7) (= comporter) [avantage, inconvénients] to have, [risque] to present

Cela présente des inconvénients. — It has some disadvantages.

2. vi

présenter bien — to have a pleasing appearance

présenter mal — to have an unattractive appearance

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présenter verb table: aimer

A vtr

1 ( faire connaître) to introduce (à to); ( de manière officielle) to present (à qn to sb); présenter un conférencier à l'auditoire to introduce a speaker to the audience; permettez-moi de vous présenter mon collègue fml may I introduce my colleague?; je vous présente mon fils this is my son, may I introduce my son?; on vous a présentés? have you been introduced?; il l'a présentée comme sa secrétaire he introduced her as his secretary; il n'est pas nécessaire de vous présenter Pierre Pierre needs no introduction from me; être présenté au roi/à la cour to be presented to the king/at court;

2 ( montrer) to show [ticket, carte, menu]; présenter une troupe à to parade troops before; ‘présentez armes!’ ‘present arms!’;

3 ( proposer au public) to present [spectacle, vedette, rétrospective, collection]; Radio, TV to present [journal, émission]; Comm to display [marchandises];

4 ( soumettre) to present [chèque, facture, addition]; to submit [devis, rapport, thèse]; to table [motion]; to introduce [proposition, projet de loi]; présenter qn à to put sb forward for [poste, élection]; to enter sb for [examen, concours]; présenter une liste pour les élections to put forward a list (of candidates) for the elections; présenter une proposition à un comité to put a proposal to a committee; présenter sa candidature à un poste to apply ou put in an application for a job; présenter un enfant au baptême to have a child christened;

5 ( exposer) to present [situation, faits, budget, conclusions]; to expound, to present [théorie]; to present, to set out [idée]; to set out [objections, point de vue]; rapport mal/bien présenté badly-/well-presented report; présenter qn comme (étant) un monstre to portray sb as a monster; être présenté comme miraculeux to be described as miraculous; être présenté comme un modèle to be held up as a model; être présenté comme une simple mesure provisoire to be described as just a temporary measure; présenter la victoire comme acquise to speak of victory as already won; comment allez-vous leur présenter l'affaire? how are you going to put the matter to them?; présenter une affaire devant les tribunaux to take a case to court; présenter la note or l'addition to present the bill GB ou check US;

6 ( exprimer) to offer [condoléances] (à to); présenter des excuses to apologize (à to);

7 ( comporter) to involve, to present [risque, difficulté]; to show [différences, signe, trace]; to show, to present [symptôme]; to offer [avantage]; to have [aspect, particularité, défaut]; un coffret qui présente des incrustations de nacre a box set with mother of pearl; présenter un grand intérêt/peu d'intérêt to be of great interest/of little interest;

8 ( orienter) présenter son visage au soleil to turn one's face to the sun; présenter le flanc à l'ennemi to turn the flank to the enemy; présenter les voiles au vent to set the sails into the wind.

B vi présenter bien to have a smart appearance; présenter mal to be badly turned out.

C se présenter vpr

1 ( paraître) to appear; ( aller) to go; ( venir) to come; tu ne peux pas te présenter dans cette tenue you can't appear dressed like that; se présenter à l'audience Jur to appear in court; en arrivant, il faut se présenter à la réception when you arrive you must go ou report to reception; personne ne s'est présenté nobody came ou appeared ou turned up○; présentez-vous à 10 heures come at 10; quand il s'est présenté chez le directeur when he presented himself sout at the manager's office; on ne se présente pas chez les gens à minuit you don't call on people at midnight; comment oses-tu te présenter chez moi? how dare you show your face at my house?; ‘ne pas écrire, se présenter’ ‘please apply in person’;

2 ( se faire connaître) to introduce oneself (à to); je me présente, Jacques Roux may I introduce myself? Jacques Roux; il s'est présenté (à moi) comme (un) employé de la banque he introduced himself (to me) as a bank employee; se présenter comme le or en libérateur du pays to make oneself out to be the country's saviour;

3 ( se porter candidat) se présenter à to take [examen, concours]; to stand for [élections]; se présenter aux élections présidentielles to stand in the presidential elections, to run for president US; en 1988 il ne s'est pas présenté in 1988 he didn't stand; se présenter sur la même liste que to stand GB ou run US alongside sb; se présenter pour un emploi to put in ou apply for a post;

4 ( survenir) [occasion, difficulté, problème] to arise, to present itself; [solution] to emerge; peu d'occasions se sont présentées there were few opportunities; lire/manger tout ce qui se présente to read/eat anything that comes along; les difficultés qui se présentent à nous the difficulties with which we are faced ou confronted; les possibilités qui se présentent à nous the possibilities available to us; cette idée s'était présentée à mon esprit the idea had crossed my mind; un spectacle étonnant se présenta à mes yeux an amazing sight met my eyes;

5 ( exister) [médicament, produit] se présenter en, se présenter sous forme de to come in the form of; se présenter sous forme de cachets/en sirop/en granulés to come ou be available in tablet form/as a syrup GB ou sirup US/in the form of granules;

6 ( s'annoncer) l'affaire se présente bien/mal things are looking good/bad; comment se présente la situation sur le front? what is the situation at the front?;

7 Méd comment se présente l'enfant? how is the baby presenting?; le bébé se présente par le siège the baby is in the breech position.

[prezɑ̃te] verbe transitif

1. [faire connaître] to introduce

je te présente ma sœur Blanche this is ou let me introduce my sister Blanche

on ne vous présente plus [personne célèbre] you need no introduction from me

présenter quelqu'un à la Cour/au Roi to present somebody at Court/to the King

2. [décrire] to describe, to portray

on me l'a présenté comme un homme de parole he was described to me as a man of his word

3. [remettre - ticket, papiers] to present, to show ; [ - facture, devis] to present

4. [montrer publiquement] to present

les Ballets de la Lune (vous) présentent... the Moon Ballet Company presents...

5. COMMERCE to present, to package

bouteille/vitrine joliment présentée attractively packaged bottle/dressed window

6. RADIO & TÉLÉVISION [informations] to present, to read

[variétés, jeu] to host, to compere (UK)

7. [soumettre - démission] to present, to submit, to hand in (separable) ; [ - pétition] to put in (separable), to submit ; [ - projet de loi] to present, to introduce

présenter sa candidature à un poste to apply for a position

[dans un festival] to present

[dans un concours] to enter

pourquoi présentez-vous votre film hors festival? why aren't you showing your film as part of the festival?

présenter l'anglais à l'oral ÉDUCATION & UNIVERSITÉ to take English at the oral exam

il a présenté un de ses élèves au Conservatoire he has entered one of his pupils for the Conservatoire entrance exam

présenter un candidat

a. [à un concours] to enter a candidate

b. POLITIQUE to put up a candidate

8. [expliquer - dossier] to present, to explain ; [ - rapport] to present, to bring in (separable)

vous avez présenté votre cas de manière fort convaincante you have set out ou stated your case most convincingly

présentez-leur la chose gentiment put it to them nicely

présentez vos objections state your objections

9. [dans des formules de politesse] to offer

je vous présente mes condoléances please accept ou I'd like to offer my condolences

présenter ses hommages à quelqu'un to pay one's respects to somebody

présenter ses excuses to offer (one's) apologies

présenter ses félicitations à quelqu'un to congratulate somebody

10. [comporter - anomalie, particularité] to present (soutenu), to have ; [ - symptômes, traces, signes] to show ; [ - difficulté, risque] to involve

présenter l'avantage de to have the advantage of

cette œuvre présente un intérêt particulier this work is of particular interest

les deux systèmes présentent peu de différences the two systems present (soutenu) ou display very few differences

11. [offrir]

présenter son bras à une dame to offer one's arm to a lady

présenter sa main à quelqu'un to hold out one's hand to somebody

présenter des petits fours to offer ou to pass round petit fours

12. MILITAIRE [armes] to present

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[prezɑ̃te] verbe intransitif

(familier)

il présente bien, ton ami your friend looks good

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se présenter verbe pronominal (emploi réfléchi)

[décliner son identité] to introduce oneself

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se présenter verbe pronominal (emploi passif)

ça se présente sous forme de poudre ou de liquide it comes as a powder or a liquid

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se présenter verbe pronominal intransitif

1. [se manifester] to appear

aucun témoin ne s'est encore présenté no witness has come forward as yet

vous devez vous présenter au tribunal à 14 h you are required to be in court at 2 pm

elle s'est présentée à son entretien avec une heure de retard she arrived one hour late for the interview

se présenter chez quelqu'un to call on somebody, to go to somebody's house

après cette soirée, il n'a pas osé se présenter chez elle after the party, he didn't dare show his face at her place

(tournure impersonnelle)

il ne s'est présenté aucun acheteur/volontaire no buyer/volunteer has come forward

2. [avoir telle tournure]

les choses se présentent plutôt mal things aren't looking too good

tout cela se présente fort bien it all looks very promising

l'affaire se présente sous un jour nouveau the matter can be seen ou appears in a new light

3. [être candidat]

se présenter aux présidentielles to run for president

se présenter à un examen to take an exam

se présenter à un concours de beauté to go in for ou to enter a beauty contest

se présenter pour un poste to apply for a job

4. [survenir] to arise

si une difficulté se présente if any difficulty should arise

elle a épousé le premier qui s'est présenté she married the first man that came along

j'attends que quelque chose d'intéressant se présente I'm waiting for something interesting to turn up ou to come my way

5. MÉDECINE to present

le bébé se présente par le siège the baby is in a breech position, it's a breech baby

le bébé se présente par la tête the baby's presentation is normal, the baby's in a head position

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partir [paʀtiʀ]

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► partir is conjugated with être.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━intransitive verb

   a. ( = aller, quitter un lieu) to go ; ( = s'éloigner) to go away

• il est parti he's gone

• il est parti en Irlande he has gone to Ireland

• ils doivent être partis they must have gone away

• il a fini par partir he eventually went away

• es-tu prêt à partir ? are you ready to go?

• nos voisins sont partis il y a six mois our neighbours left or went six months ago

• quand partez-vous pour Paris ? when are you leaving for Paris?

• il est parti acheter du pain he has gone to buy some bread

• partir faire des courses to go shopping

• partir en voyage to go on a trip

• ma lettre ne partira pas ce soir my letter won't go this evening

• sa femme est partie avec un autre his wife has gone off with another man

• partir à pied to set off on foot

• il est parti en courant he ran off

• les voilà partis ! they're off!

► partir de [personne] to leave

• elle est partie de Nice à 9 heures she left Nice at 9 o'clock

• un chemin qui part de l'église a path leading from the church

• c'est le troisième en partant de la droite it's the third from the right

• il est parti de rien he started from nothing

• c'est de là que part notre analyse this is what our analysis is based on

• partons de l'hypothèse que... let's assume that...

• en partant de ce principe... on that basis...

• cela part d'un bon sentiment it's well meant

   b. ( = démarrer) [moteur] to start ; [train] to leave

• c'est parti ! (inf) here we go! (inf)

   c. ( = être lancé) [fusée] to go up ; [coup de feu] to go off

• le coup est parti tout seul the gun went off accidentally

• faire partir [+ fusée] to launch ; [+ pétard] to set off

   d. ( = être engagé) partir sur une mauvaise piste to start off on the wrong track

• partir mal to get off to a bad start

• le pays est mal parti the country is in a bad way

• partir bien to get off to a good start

• son affaire est bien partie his business has got off to a good start

• il est bien parti pour gagner he seems all set to win

• quand ils sont partis à discuter, il y en a pour des heures (inf) once they've got going on one of their discussions, they're at it for hours (inf)

• la pluie est partie pour (durer) toute la journée the rain has set in for the day

   e. ( = disparaître) [tache] to come out ; [bouton de vêtement] to come off ; [douleur, rougeurs, boutons, odeur] to go

• la tache est partie au lavage the stain came out in the wash

• faire partir [+ tache] to remove ; [+ odeur] to get rid of

   f. ► à partir de from

• à partir d'aujourd'hui from today

• à partir de 4 heures from 4 o'clock onwards

• à partir de maintenant from now on

• à partir de ce moment-là from then on

• à partir du moment où... ( = dès que) as soon as... ; ( = pourvu que) as long as...

• c'est le troisième à partir de la gauche it's the third from the left

• pantalons à partir de 100 € trousers from 100 euros

• c'est fait à partir de produits chimiques it's made from chemicals

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paʀtiʀ
1.

verbe intransitif

1) ( quitter un lieu) [personne] to leave, to go

partez devant, je vous rejoins — go on ahead, I'll catch you up

est-ce qu'ils sont partis en avion ou en train? — did they fly or did they take the train?

j'espère que je ne vous fais pas partir? — I hope I'm not driving you away?

partir en courant/boitant/hurlant — to run off/to limp off/to go off screaming

partir fâché — to go off in a huff (colloq)

partir content — to go away happy

partir sans laisser d'adresse — ( sans laisser de traces) to disappear without trace

2) ( pour une destination) to go

il est parti en ville à bicyclette — he went to town on his bicycle

partir pour le Mexique/l'Australie — to leave for Mexico/Australia

ils sont partis en Écosse en stop — ( ils sont encore en voyage) they're hitchhiking to Scotland; ( dans le passé) they hitchhiked to Scotland

partir à la guerre/au front — to go off to war/to the front

partir en tournée — to set off on tour GB ou on a tour

partir en retraite — to retire

3) ( se mettre en mouvement) [personne, voiture, car, train] to leave; [avion] to take off; [moteur] to start

je pars — I'm off, I'm leaving

les coureurs sont partis — the runners are off

le train à destination de Dijon va partir — the train to Dijon is about to depart ou leave

à vos marques, prêts, partez! — on your marks, get set, go!

4) ( être projeté) [flèche, balle] to be fired; [bouchon] to shoot out; [capsule] to shoot off; [réplique] to slip out

le coup de feu est parti — the gun went off

elle était tellement énervée que la gifle est partie toute seule — she was so angry that she slapped him/her before she realized what she was doing ou before she could stop herself

5) ( commencer) [chemin, route] to start

les branches qui partent du tronc — the branches growing out from the trunk

les avenues qui partent de la place de l'Étoile — the avenues which radiate outwards from the Place de l'Étoile

partir favori — [concurrent, candidat] to start favourite [BrE]

partir battu d'avance — to be doomed from the start

partir dernier — ( dans une course) to start last

le troisième en partant de la gauche — the third (starting) from the left

partir de rien — to start from nothing

c'est parti! — ( ordre) go!

et voilà, c'est parti (colloq), il pleut! — here we go, it's raining!

être bien parti — [coureur, cheval, projet, travail, personne] to have got GB ou gotten US off to a good start

être bien parti pour gagner — to seem all set to win

c'est mal parti — (colloq) things don't look too good, it doesn't look too promising

il a l'air parti (colloq) pour réussir — he seems to be heading for success

le mauvais temps est parti (colloq) pour durer — it looks as if the bad weather is here to stay

6) ( se fonder)

partir de — to start from [idée, observation]

partir du principe que — to work on the assumption that

partir d'une bonne intention — to be well-meant

7) ( s'enlever) [tache, saleté] to come out; [émail, peinture] to come off; [odeur] to go; [bouton, écusson, décoration] to come off

faire partir une tache — to remove a stain

8) ( être expédié) [colis, candidature] to be sent (off)

9) ( se lancer)

quand il est parti (colloq) on ne l'arrête plus — once he starts ou gets going there's no stopping him

partir dans des explications — to launch into explanations

10) ( mourir) euph to go, to pass away euph

2.

à partir de locution prépositive from

à partir de maintenant — from now on

à partir du moment où — ( sens temporel) as soon as; ( sens conditionnel) as long as

à partir de là, tout a basculé — from then on everything changed radically

les enfants ne sont admis qu'à partir de huit ans — children under eight are not admitted

faire une étude à partir de statistiques — to base a study on statistics

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paʀtiʀ vi
1) (aller vers un lieu) to go

J'aimerais partir quelque part au soleil. — I'd like to go somewhere sunny.

partir en vacances — to go on holiday

partir faire du ski — to go skiing

partir pour — to go off to

Si vous partez pour un long voyage, n'oubliez pas de... — If you go off on a long trip, don't forget to..., If you go away on a long trip, don't forget to...

Ils sont partis hier pour le Japon. — They went off to Japan yesterday.

partir à — to go to

Il est parti à Londres pour apprendre l'anglais. — He's gone to London to learn English.

2) (quitter un lieu) to go, to leave

Partez, vous allez être en retard. — You should go, or you'll be late., You should leave, or you'll be late.

Je peux partir? — Can I go now?, Can I leave now?

Il est parti à sept heures. — He left at 7 o'clock., He went at 7 o'clock.

Je lui ai téléphoné mais il était déjà parti. — I phoned him but he'd already gone., I phoned him but he'd already left.

partir de — to leave

Il est parti de Nice à sept heures. — He left Nice at 7 o'clock.

3) (s'éloigner d'un lieu) to go away, to go off, (en voiture) to drive away, to drive off

Ils sont partis à toute allure. — They drove off at high speed.

partir en courant — to run away

4) (= commencer)

partir de [hypothèse, principe] — to start from, [élément d'une suite] to start from

la numérotation part de la première page de texte — the numbering starts from the first page of the text

partons du troisième chapitre — let's start from chapter three

5) [moteur] to start

6) [pétard] to go off

7) [bouchon, toute pièce insérée] to come out

8) [bouton, toute pièce attachée ou fixée] to come off

9) [tache, marque] to come off

10) (autres locutions)

à partir de; à partir de ce moment — from then on

Je serai chez moi à partir de huit heures. — I'll be at home from eight o'clock onwards.

À partir de Verneuil, c'est plus boisé. — After Verneuil, it's more forested.

à partir de 3 millions d'euros — from 3 million euros upwards

C'est fait à partir de graisse de marmotte. — It's made from marmot fat.

À partir de là, tout est possible. — If that's the case, anything's possible.

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partir verb table: partir

A vi

1 ( quitter un lieu) [personne] to leave, to go; partir sans manger to leave ou go without eating; partez devant, je vous rejoins go on ahead, I'll catch you up; tu pars déjà? are you leaving already?; partir à pied/en voiture/en avion to leave on foot/in a car/in a plane; est-ce qu'ils sont partis en avion ou en train? did they fly or did they take the train?; il est parti en ville à bicyclette he went to town on his bicycle; il est parti il y a cinq minutes he left five minutes ago; ils sont partis en Écosse en stop ( ils sont encore en voyage) they're hitchhiking to Scotland; ( dans le passé) they hitchhiked to Scotland; partir de to leave ou go from [ville, gare, aéroport]; de quelle gare pars-tu? which station are you leaving ou going from?; je suis partie de chez moi à 20 heures I left my house at 8 pm; faire partir qn to make sb leave; j'espère que je ne vous fais pas partir? I hope I'm not driving you away?; fais partir ce chien! get that dog out of here!; partir en courant/boitant/hurlant to run off/to limp off/to go off screaming; partir fâché to go off in a huff○; partir content to go away happy; partir avec qn to go off with sb; elle est partie avec un autre she went off with another man; partir sans laisser d'adresse lit to go away without leaving a forwarding address; ( sans laisser de traces) to disappear without trace;

2 ( pour une destination) to go, to leave; partir loin/dans un pays lointain to go far away/to a far-off country; partir à Paris/à New York/au Mexique to go to Paris/to New York/to Mexico; je pars à Paris demain I'm going to Paris tomorrow, I'm off to Paris tomorrow; partir pour le Mexique/l'Australie to leave for Mexico/Australia; tu pars pour combien de temps? how long are you going for?; partir pour une semaine/six mois to go for a week/six months; est-ce que tu sais que je pars pour une semaine? did you know I was going away for a week?; partir en vacances to go on holiday GB ou vacation US (à to); nous partons en vacances dans les Vosges we're going on holiday GB ou vacation to the Vosges; partir en week-end to go away for the weekend; partir en week-end à Chamonix to go to Chamonix for the weekend; partir en voyage/expédition/croisière to go on a trip/an expedition/a cruise; partir à la guerre/au front to go off to war/to the front; partir au travail to go to work; partir à la pêche/chasse to go fishing/hunting; partir faire to go to do; elle est partie se reposer she's gone for a rest; partir en tournée to set off on tour GB ou on a tour US; partir en retraite to retire;

3 ( se mettre en mouvement) [voiture, car, train] to leave; [avion] to take off; [moteur] to start; [personne] to be off, to leave; les coureurs sont partis the runners are off; le train à destination de Dijon va partir the train to Dijon is about to depart ou leave; à vos marques, prêts, partez! on your marks, get set, go!;

4 ( être projeté) [flèche, balle] to be fired; [bouchon] to shoot out; [capsule] to shoot off; [réplique] to slip out; il jouait avec le fusil et le coup de feu est parti he was playing with the gun and it went off; la balle est partie, le blessant à l'épaule the shot was fired, wounding him in the shoulder; le bouchon est parti d'un seul coup the cork suddenly shot out; elle était tellement énervée que la gifle est partie toute seule she was so angry that she slapped him/her before she realized what she was doing ou before she could stop herself;

5 ( commencer) [chemin, route] to start; le sentier part d'ici the path starts here; les branches qui partent du tronc the branches growing out from the trunk; les avenues qui partent de la Place de l'Étoile the avenues which radiate outwards from the Place de l'Étoile; partir favori [concurrent, candidat] to start favourite^GB (à une course for a race); partir gagnant/battu d'avance to be the winner/loser before one has even started; partir dernier ( dans une course) to start last; le troisième en partant de la gauche the third (starting) from the left; partir de rien to start from nothing; c'est parti! ( si l'on donne un ordre) go!; ( si l'on constate) here we go!; et voilà, c'est parti, il pleut! here we go, it's raining!; être bien parti○ lit [coureur, cheval] to have got GB ou gotten US off to a good start; fig [projet, travail, personne] to have got GB ou gotten US off to a good start; être bien parti pour gagner lit, fig to seem all set to win; l'entreprise a l'air bien partie the firm seems to have got off to a good start; être mal parti○ lit [coureur, cheval] to have got off to a bad start; fig [personne, pays, projet] to be in a bad way; avec la récession le pays est mal parti what with the recession the country is in a bad way; c'est mal parti○ things don't look too good; il faudrait qu'il fasse beau mais c'est mal parti it would be nice if the weather was fine but it doesn't look too promising; il a l'air parti pour réussir○ he seems to be heading for success; le mauvais temps est parti pour durer○ it looks as if the bad weather is here to stay;

6 ( se fonder) partir de qch to start from sth; je suis parti d'une idée/observation très simple I started from a very simple idea/observation; l'auteur est parti d'un fait divers pour écrire son roman the author used a news snippet as a starting point for his novel; partir du principe que to work on the assumption that; partir d'une bonne intention or d'un bon sentiment [idée, geste] to be well-meant; (en) partant de là○… on that basis…;

7 ( s'enlever) [tache, saleté] to come out; [émail, peinture] to come off; [odeur] to go; [bouton, écusson, décoration] to come off; j'ai beau frotter, ça ne part pas no matter how hard I rub, it won't come out; la saleté part bien/mal the dirt's coming off nicely/won't come out; l'étiquette est partie the label has come off; faire partir une tache/un graffiti to remove a stain/a piece of graffiti;

8 ( être expédié) [colis, lettre, rapport, candidature] to be sent (off);

9 ( se lancer) quand il est parti on ne l'arrête plus once he starts ou gets going there's no stopping him; partir dans des explications/un monologue to launch into explanations/a monologue; partir dans des digressions to start digressing;

10 ( mourir) euph to go, to pass away euph.

B à partir de loc prép

1 ( dans l'espace) from; à partir d'ici/du feu rouge/du carrefour from here/the traffic lights/the crossroads;

2 ( dans le temps) from; à partir de 16 heures/du 5 février from 4 o'clock/5 February (onwards); à partir de maintenant from now on; à partir du moment où ( sens temporel) as soon as; ( sens conditionnel) as long as; c'est possible à partir du moment où tu résides dans le pays it's possible as long as you are resident in the country; à partir de là, tout a basculé from then on everything changed radically;

3 ( supérieur ou égal) from; à partir de 2 000 euros from 2,000 euros; les enfants ne sont admis qu'à partir de huit ans children under eight are not admitted;

4 ( en utilisant) from; fabriqué à partir de pétrole/d'un alliage made from oil/an alloy;

5 ( en se basant sur) from, on the basis of; faire une étude à partir de statistiques to base a study on statistics; à partir de cet exemple il a démontré que using ou from this example he proved that; à partir de ces chiffres/résultats il est possible de… on the basis of these figures/results it is possible to…; à partir d'un échantillon représentatif from ou on the basis of a representative sample; ⇒ courir, maille, mourir.

[partir] verbe intransitif

1. [s'en aller] to go, to leave

pars, tu vas rater ton train (off you) go, or you'll miss your train

empêche-la de partir stop her (going), don't let her go

je ne vous fais pas partir, j'espère I hope I'm not chasing you away

laisser partir

a. [prisonnier, otage] to set free, to let go, to release

b. [écolier] to let out

c. [employé] to let go

laisse-moi partir let me go

il est parti avec la caisse he ran away ou off with the till

le climat les a fait partir the climate drove them away

tout son argent part en disques all his money goes on records

je ne peux pas partir du bureau avant 17 h 30 I can't leave the office before 5:30

(euphémisme) [mourir] to pass on ou away

2. [se mettre en route] to set off ou out, to start off

pars devant, je te rattrape go ahead, I'll catch up with you

regarde cette circulation, on n'est pas encore partis! (familier) by the look of that traffic, we're not off yet!

le courrier n'est pas encore parti the post hasn't gone yet

partir en avion

a. [personne] to fly (off)

b. [courrier] to go air mail ou by air

partir en bateau to go (off) by boat, to sail

partir en voiture to go (off) by car, to drive off

3. [se rendre] to go, to leave

je pars à ou pour Toulon demain I'm leaving for ou I'm off to Toulon tomorrow

partir à la campagne/montagne/mer to go (off) to the countryside/mountains/seaside

partir vers le sud to go south

4. [aller - pour se livrer à une activité] to go

elle est partie au tennis/à la danse she's gone to play tennis/to her dance class

partir à la chasse/pêche to go shooting/fishing

partir à la recherche de to set off in search of, to go looking for

partir en week-end to go off ou away for the weekend

nous partons en excursion/voyage demain we're setting off on an excursion/a journey tomorrow

tu ne pars pas (en vacances) cet été? aren't you going on holiday (UK) ou vacation (US) this summer?

partir skier/se promener to go skiing/for a walk

sa tête est partie heurter le buffet his head struck against the sideboard

5. [s'engager]

partir dans: partir dans un discours to launch into a speech

partir dans une explication to embark on an explanation

partir sur: partir sur un sujet to start off on a topic

quand elles sont parties sur leur boulot, c'est difficile de les arrêter (familier) once they start on about their job, there's no stopping them

être parti à faire quelque chose (familier) : les voilà partis à refaire toute la maison there they go doing up the entire house

6. [démarrer - machine, moteur, voiture] to start (up) ; [ - avion] to take off, to leave ; [ - train] to leave, to depart ; [ - fusée] to go up ; [ - pétard] to go off ; [ - plante] to take

le coup (de feu) est parti tout seul the gun went off on its own

il m'a insulté et la gifle est partie he insulted me and I just slapped him

excuse-moi, le mot est parti (tout seul) I'm sorry, the word just came out

faire partir

a. [moteur] to start (up)

b. [pétard] to set ou to let off (separable)

c. [fusil] to let off (separable)

d. [plante] to get started

7. [se mettre en mouvement, débuter - coureur, match, concert] to start (off)

être parti pour: on est partis pour avoir des ennuis! we're headed for trouble!

elle est partie pour nous faire la tête toute la soirée she's all set to sulk the whole evening

le match est bien/mal parti pour notre équipe the match has started well/badly for our team

le projet est bien parti the project is off to a good start

je le vois mal parti pour récupérer son titre the way he's going, I just can't see him winning back his title

elle a l'air bien partie pour remporter l'élection she seems well set to win the election

8. [se vendre] to sell

9. [disparaître, s'effacer - inscription] to disappear, to be rubbed off ou out, to be worn off ; [ - tache] to disappear, to go, to come out ; [ - douleur] to go, to disappear ; [ - boutons] to come off ; [ - pellicules, odeur] to go

faire partir

a. [salissure] to get rid of, to remove

b. [odeur] to get rid of, to clear

c. [douleur] to ease

ça ne fera pas partir ton mal de gorge it won't get rid of your sore throat

10. [se défaire, se détacher - attache, bouton] to come off, to go ; [ - maille] to run ; [ - étiquette] to come off

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partir de verbe plus préposition

1. [dans l'espace]

le ferry/marathon part de Brest the ferry sails/the marathon starts from Brest

la rue part de la mairie the street starts at the town hall

la cicatrice part du poignet et va jusqu'au coude the scar goes ou stretches from the wrist to the elbow

c'est le quatrième en partant de la droite/du haut it's the fourth (one) from the right/top

2. [dans le temps]

nous allons faire partir le contrat du 15 janvier we'll make the contract effective (as) from January the 15th

votre congé part de la fin mai your holidays begin at the end of May

3. [dans un raisonnement]

partir du principe que to start from the principle that, to start by assuming that

si l'on part de ce principe, il faudrait ne jamais contester on that basis, one should never protest

4. [provenir de]

tous les problèmes sont partis de là all the problems stemmed from that

ça partait d'un bon sentiment his intentions were good

sa remarque est partie du coeur his comment came ou was (straight) from the heart, it was a heartfelt remark

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à partir de locution prépositionnelle

1. [dans le temps] (as) from

à partir de mardi starting from Tuesday, from Tuesday onwards

à partir de (ce moment-) là, il ne m'a plus adressé la parole from that moment on ou from then on, he never spoke to me again

2. [dans l'espace] (starting) from

le deuxième à partir de la droite the second (one) from the right

3. [numériquement]

imposé à partir de 5 000 euros taxable from 5,000 euros upwards

4. [avec, à base de] from

c'est fait à partir d'huiles végétales it's made from ou with vegetable oils

on ne peut pas tirer de conclusions à partir de si peu de preuves you can't reach any conclusion on the basis of so little evidence

j'ai fait un résumé à partir de ses notes I've made a summary based on his notes

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > partir
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m.pl.

elections (politics).

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comicios

► nombre masculino plural

1 PLÍTICA elections

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SMPL elections, voting sing

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masculino plural elections (pl)

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= election campaign, elections.

Nota: Normalmente usado en plural.

Ex. This was originally intended as a set of speaking notes for candidates and others in the 1979 direct election campaign.

Ex. This article discusses the 20th edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme, its components and changes made to various subject divisions such as television, data processing, popular music, substance abuse, civil rights and elections.

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* comicios primarios = primary election.

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masculino plural elections (pl)

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= election campaign, elections.

Nota: Normalmente usado en plural.

Ex: This was originally intended as a set of speaking notes for candidates and others in the 1979 direct election campaign.

Ex: This article discusses the 20th edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme, its components and changes made to various subject divisions such as television, data processing, popular music, substance abuse, civil rights and elections.

* comicios primarios = primary election.

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comicios

mpl

elections (pl)

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comicios sustantivo masculino plural
elections (pl)
comicios mpl elections

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: elections, voting

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15 пиша

1. write ( някому to s.o., за about)

(рецепта, разписка и пр.) make out

(писмо и пр.) write, pen

не пиша send no news of o.s.

пиши ми let me hear from you, be sure to write

пиша с перо/с мастило/на хартия write with a pen/in ink/on paper

пиша красиво/ситно write a good/small hand, have a good/small hand

пиша с краката си write with o.'s boots

пиша лошо/неясно write a bad hand

пиша небрежно/набързо scribble

пиша с печатни букви write out in print/in block letters

пиша на машина typewrite, type

пиша под диктовката на някого write to s.o.'s dictation

как се пише тази дума? how do you spell this word?

сядам/залавям се/започвам да пиша put/set (the) pen to paper

пиша си с be in correspondence with, keep up a correspondence with

2. (съчинявам статия, стихове, книга) write, compose

(муз. произведение) compose

(рисувам) paint; decorate

пиша във вестник write for a paper

3. (за вестник, списание и пр.-съобщавам) say, write

както пишат вестниците the papers say that; on the authority of the press

всички вестници пишат за изборите 'all the newspapers write about the elections, the election is all (in) the news

в обявата пишеше the notice said/read/ran

какво пише тук? what does it say here?

на шишето пишеше "отрова" the bottle was labelled "poison"

пиши го бегало it's as good as lost; write it off, cancel it, book it off as a loss

пиша ce

4. (записвам се) enlist; put o.'s name down (for)

5. (минавам за) разг. pretend to be, set up for; set o.s. up as

пиша се болен go on sick parade

лошо ти се пише you're in for trouble, you'll get it in the neck

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пѝша,

гл., мин. св. деят. прич. пѝсал 1. write ( някому to s.o., за about); ( рецепта, разписка и пр.) make out; (с тебешир) chalk down/up; ( под диктовка) write down; как се пише тази дума? how do you spell this word? не \пиша send no news of o.s.; \пиша на машина typewrite, type; \пиша небрежно/набързо scribble; \пиша с перо/с мастило write with a pen/in ink; \пиша с печатни букви write out in print/in block letters; \пиша си с be in correspondence with, keep up a correspondence with; пиши ми be sure to write; сядам/залавям се/започвам да \пиша put/set (the) pen to paper;

2. ( съчинявам статия, стихове, книга) write, compose; (муз. произведение) compose;

3. (за вестник, списание и пр. съобщавам) say, write; в обявата пишеше the notice said/read/ran; какво пише тук? what does it say here? на шишето пишеше “ отрова” the bottle was labelled “poison”;

\пиша се 1. ( записвам се) enlist; put o.’s name down (for);

2. ( минавам за) разг. pretend to be, set up for; set o.s. up as; • лошо ти се пише you’re in for trouble, you’ll get it in the neck; \пиша с краката си write with o.’s boots; пиши го бега̀ло it’s as good as lost; write it off, cancel it, book it off as a loss.

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write: пиша a good hand - пиша красиво, пиша a novel - пиша роман, I will write to my brother about the wedding - Ще пиша на брат ми за сватбата; pen (с писалка, химикал); say: the advertisement пишаs... - в обявата пише...; pencil (с молив); verse (стихове)

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1. (за вестник, списание и пр. - съобщавам) say, write 2. (записвам се) enlist;put o.'s name down (for) 3. (минавам за) разг. pretend to be, set up for;set o. s. up as 4. (муз. произведение) compose 5. (писмо и пр.) write, pen 6. (рецепта, разписка и пр.) make out 7. (рисувам) paint;decorate 8. (съчинявам статия, стихове, книга) write, compose 9. write (някому to s. о., за about) 10. ПИША ce 11. ПИША във вестник write for a paper 12. ПИША красиво/ситно write a good/small hand, have a good/small hand 13. ПИША лошо/неясно write a bad hand 14. ПИША на машина typewrite, type 15. ПИША небрежно/набързо scribble 16. ПИША под диктовката на някого write to s. o.'s dictation 17. ПИША с краката си write with o.'s boots 18. ПИША с перо/с мастило/на хартия write with a pen/in ink/on paper 19. ПИША с печатни букви write out in print/in block letters 20. ПИША се болен go on sick parade 21. ПИША си с be in correspondence with, keep up a correspondence with 22. в обявата пишеше the notice said/ read/ran 23. всички вестници пишат за изборите 'all the newspapers write about the elections, the election is all (in) the news 24. как се пише тази дума? how do you spell this word? 25. какво пише тук? what does it say here? 26. както пишат вестниците the papers say that;on the authority of the press 27. лошо ти се пише you're in for trouble, you'll get it in the neck 28. на шишето пишеше „отрова" the bottle was labelled "poison" 29. не ПИША send no news of о. s. 30. пиши го бегало it's as good as lost;write it off, cancel it, book it off as a loss 31. пиши ми let me hear from you, be sure to write 32. сядам/залавям се/започвам да ПИША put/set (the) pen to paper

Български-английски речник > пиша
16 выборы

сущ.

мн election(s)

выигрывать выборы — to win the election(s); амер тж to swing the election(s)

идти на выборы — to go to the polls

назначать выборы — to announce (call) the election(s); fix (schedule, set) a date for the election(s)

начинать кампанию по выборам президента — to launch the presidential campaign

одержать победу на выборах — to win the election(s); амер тж to swing the election(s)

признать выборы недействительными — to declare the election(s) null and void; null the election(s)

проводить выборы — to conduct (hold) the election(s)

участвовать в выборах — to participate in the election(s)

во время выборов — during the election(s)

в ходе выборов — in the course of the election(s)

до выборов — before the election(s)

до начала каких-л следующих выборов — before any subsequent election(s)

после выборов — after the election(s)

год выборов — election year

нарушение процедуры выборов — breach of the election (electoral) procedure

порядок проведения выборов — election (electoral) procedure

результаты выборов — election results (returns)

прямые, равные и всеобщие выборы при тайном голосовании — direct, equal and universal suffrage by secret ballot

- выборы в Конгресс
- выборы в местные органы власти
- выборы губернатора
- выборы мэра
- выборы президента
- выборы с несколькими баллотировками
- выборы с одной баллотировкой
- выборы судьи
- выборы членов суда
- внеочередные выборы
- всеобщие выборы
- дополнительные выборы
- досрочные выборы
- местные выборы
- муниципальные выборы
- незаконные выборы
- очередные выборы
- парламентские выборы
- первичные выборы
- предстоящие выборы
- продажные выборы
- промежуточные выборы
- пропорциональные выборы
- свободные выборы

Русско-английский юридический словарь > выборы
17 Historical Portugal

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

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

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

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

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

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

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

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

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

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

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

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

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

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

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

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

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

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

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

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

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

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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18 opstille

array, range

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vb put up, set up;

( anbringe) put,

(mere F) place;

(monument etc) put up, set up,

F erect;

( montere) mount ( fx a machine);

( ordne) arrange ( fx in alphabetical order); order ( fx chessmen for a game);

( på række) line up;

( soldater i bestemt orden) draw up, form up,

F dispose;

( etablere militære enheder) establish, set up ( fx an army, four battalions);

( raketter) install; deploy;

( postere) post ( fx sentries);

(fig) set up ( fx as one's ideal);

( fremsætte) put forward, advance ( fx a claim, a theory);

F pose, propound ( fx a problem);

(udfærdige etc) draw up ( fx a budget, a contract, a list, a programme);

( fastlægge) lay down, make ( fx conditions, a rule);

(mat.) set up ( fx a formula, an equation);

( til valg) nominate, put up, run;

( uden objekt = lade sig opstille) ( ved valg) stand ( til for),

(am) run ( til for, fx he is running for President);

[ ti partier opstiller ved valget] candidates from ten parties are standing

(for election); ten parties are putting forward candidates (for election).

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19 convocar

v.

1 to convene.

2 to convoke, to assemble, to call, to call together.

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convocar

Conjugation model [ SACAR], like link=sacar sacar

► verbo transitivo

1 to convoke, summon, call together

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FRASEOLOGÍA

convocar oposiciones to hold competitive examinations

convocar una reunión to call a meeting

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verb

to call, convene, summon

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VT

1) [+ elecciones, referéndum, huelga] to call; [+ asamblea, reunión] to call, convene; [+ manifestación] to call for; [+ concurso, oposiciones] to announce

convocó una conferencia de prensa — he called a press conference

han convocado un congreso extraordinario para el lunes — they have called o convened a special conference for Monday

convocar Cortes — ( Hist) to convoke parliament

2)

convocar a algn: convocaron a los periodistas a una rueda de prensa — they called journalists to a press conference

convocaron a todos los presos en el patio — they summoned all the prisoners to the yard

los españoles serán convocados a las urnas en abril — Spaniards will go to the polls in April

los jugadores convocados por el entrenador — the players selected by the trainer

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verbo transitivo <huelga/elecciones> to call; < manifestación> to organize; <concurso/certamen> to announce; <reunión/asamblea> to call, convene (frml)

convocar a alguien a algo — to summon somebody to something

convocar al pueblo a las urnas — to call an election

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= summon, convene.

Ex. All interested parties were summoned to further cooperate for the success of the show.

Ex. An interview committee, consisting of the library personnel officer and the associate executive director for branches, convened to speak with applicants for the adult materials selection position = Un comité seleccionador, compuesto por el responsable del personal de la biblioteca y el subdirector ejecutivo de las filiales, se reunió para hablar con los candidatos para el puesto de selección de material de adultos.

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* convocar de nuevo = reconvene.

* convocar una reunión = call + meeting, convene + meeting.

* convocar un congreso = convene + conference.

* convocar un seminario = convene + seminar.

* volver a convocar = reconvene.

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verbo transitivo <huelga/elecciones> to call; < manifestación> to organize; <concurso/certamen> to announce; <reunión/asamblea> to call, convene (frml)

convocar a alguien a algo — to summon somebody to something

convocar al pueblo a las urnas — to call an election

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= summon, convene.

Ex: All interested parties were summoned to further cooperate for the success of the show.

Ex: An interview committee, consisting of the library personnel officer and the associate executive director for branches, convened to speak with applicants for the adult materials selection position = Un comité seleccionador, compuesto por el responsable del personal de la biblioteca y el subdirector ejecutivo de las filiales, se reunió para hablar con los candidatos para el puesto de selección de material de adultos.

* convocar de nuevo = reconvene.

* convocar una reunión = call + meeting, convene + meeting.

* convocar un congreso = convene + conference.

* convocar un seminario = convene + seminar.

* volver a convocar = reconvene.

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convocar [A2 ]

vt

‹huelga/elecciones› to call; ‹manifestación› to organize; ‹concurso/certamen/oposiciones› to announce; ‹reunión/asamblea› to call, convene ( frml)

se convocaron 10 plazas de enfermeros applications were invited for 10 vacancies for male nurses

convocar a algn A algo to summon sb TO sth

el director convocó a los profesores a una reunión the principal called o summoned the teachers to a meeting

convocaron a los accionistas a asistir a la reunión they called on shareholders to attend the meeting

convocaron al pueblo a las urnas they called an election

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convocar ( conjugate convocar) verbo transitivo ‹huelga/elecciones› to call;
‹ manifestación› to organize;
‹concurso/certamen› to announce;
‹reunión/asamblea› to call, convene (frml);
convocar a algn a algo to summon sb to sth
convocar verbo transitivo
1 (citar) to summon: me han convocado el jueves, I was summoned to go on Thursday
2 (una reunión, elecciones) to call: se han convocado las oposiciones, the competitive exams were announced
' convocar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acordar
- elección
- emplazar
- citar
English:
ballot
- call
- call out
- convene
- convoke
- reconvene
- set up
- summon
- election
- meeting
- set

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convocar vt

1. [reunión] to convene;

convocaron a los accionistas a junta the shareholders were called to a meeting, a shareholders' meeting was convened

2. [huelga, elecciones] to call;
[manifestación] to organize;
convocar a alguien a una manifestación to call on sb to demonstrate o to attend a demonstration;

convocar a alguien a la huelga to call sb out on strike;

el seleccionador ha convocado a cinco nuevos jugadores the manager has called up five new players

3. [premio, examen] to announce

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convocar

v/t a personas summon; oposiciones organize; huelga call;

convocar elecciones call elections

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convocar {72} vt

: to convoke, to call together

Spanish-English dictionary > convocar
20 día

m.

day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four-hour period.

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día

► nombre masculino

1 day

■ ¿qué día es hoy? what day is it today?, what's the date today?

2 (con luz) daylight, daytime

■ ya es de día it's daylight

3 (tiempo) day, weather

■ tuvimos un buen día it was a fine day

► nombre masculino plural días

1 (vida) days

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FRASEOLOGÍA

a la luz del día in daylight

a los pocos días a few days later

al caer el día at dusk

al despuntar el día at dawn, at daybreak

al día siguiente / al otro día the following day

¡buenos días! good morning!

cada día / todos los días each day, every day

cualquier día de estos any day now

dar los buenos días to say good morning

de día during the day

de un día para otro from one day to the next, overnight

del día fresh

día a día day by day

el día de mañana figurado in the future

el día menos pensado figurado when you least expect it

estar al día figurado to be up to date

hacer buen/mal día to be a nice/horrible day

hasta el fin de sus días to the end of his days

poner al día to bring up to date

ser de día to be daylight

si algún día if ever

■ si algún día lo ves... if you ever see him...

un buen día figurado one fine day

un día sí y otro no every other day

vivir al día figurado to live from hand to mouth, not to save a penny

día de año nuevo New Year's Day

día de descanso day off

día de fiesta / día festivo holiday, bank holiday

día de paga payday

día entre semana weekday

día lectivo teaching day

día libre day off

■ mañana cogeré el día libre I'll take the day off tomorrow

días alternos every other day sing

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noun m.

1) day

2) daytime

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- al día
- día festivo
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SM

1) (=período de 24 horas) day

pasaré un par de días en la playa — I'll spend a couple of days at the beach

todos los días — every day

pollitos de un día — day-old chicks

a los pocos días — within o after a few days, a few days later

• día a día — day in day out, day by day

prefiero el día a día — I prefer to do things from one day to the next o on a day-to-day basis

el día a día en la gestión financiera de la empresa — the day-to-day running of the company's financial business

• siete veces al día — seven times a day

tres horas al día — three hours a day

al otro día — the following day

al día siguiente — the following day

• ese problema es ya de días — that's an old problem

menú del día — today's menu

pan del día — fresh bread

• de día en día — from day to day

• día (de) por medio — LAm every other day, on alternate days

• ocho días — a week

• quince días — a fortnight

• un día sí y otro no — every other day

• día tras día — day after day

- a días

- cuatro días

- todo el santo día

- no tener más que el día y la noche

día azul — (Ferro) cheap ticket day

día de asueto — day off

día de ayuno — fast day

día de boda — wedding day

día de detención — quiet day

día de diario, día de entresemana — weekday

día de fiesta — holiday, public holiday

día de inactividad — quiet day

día de la banderita — flag day

Día de la Hispanidad — Columbus Day ( 12 October)

día de la Madre — Mother's Day

Día de la Raza — = Día de la Hispanidad

día del espectador — day each week when cinema tickets are discounted

día del Juicio (Final) — Judgment Day

estaremos aquí hasta el día del Juicio — iró we'll be here till Kingdom come

Día de los Difuntos — All Souls' Day, Day of the Dead

día de los enamorados — St Valentine's Day

día de los inocentes — ≈ April Fools' Day ( 1 April)

Día de (los) Muertos — Méx All Souls' Day, Day of the Dead

día de paga — pay day

Día de Reyes — Epiphany ( 6 January)

día de trabajo — working day

día de tribunales — day on which courts are open

día de vigilia — day of abstinence

día feriado, día festivo — holiday, public holiday

día franco — (Mil) day's leave

día hábil — working day

día inhábil — non-working day

día laborable — working day

día lectivo — teaching day

día libre — day off

día malo, día nulo — off day

días de gracia — (Com) days of grace

día señalado — [gen] special day; [en calendario] red-letter day

día útil — working day, weekday

See:

ver nota culturelle DÍA DE LOS (SANTOS) INOCENTES in inocente,

ver nota culturelle DÍA DE REYES in rey

2) (=no noche) daytime

durante el día — during the day(time)

en pleno día — in broad daylight

hace buen día — the weather's good today, it's a fine day

• ¡ buenos días!, ¡ buen día! — Cono Sur good morning!

dar los buenos días a algn — to say good morning to sb

• de día — by day, during the day

duerme de día y trabaja de noche — he sleeps by day and works by night, he sleeps during the day and works at night

ya es de día — it's already light

mientras sea de día — while it's still light

• día y noche — night and day

3) (=fecha) date

¿qué día es hoy? — [del mes] what's the date today?; [de la semana] what day is it today?

iré pronto, pero no puedo precisar el día — I'll be going soon, but I can't give an exact date

llegará el día dos de mayo — he'll arrive on the second of May

hoy, día cinco de agosto — today, fifth August

día lunes/martes etc — LAm Monday/Tuesday etc

• el día de hoy — today

• el día de mañana — (lit) tomorrow; (fig) at some future date

4) (=momento sin precisar)

algún día — some day

un buen día — one fine day

cada día es peor — it's getting worse every day o by the day

un día de estos — one of these days

el día menos pensado — when you least expect it

en los días de la reina Victoria — in Queen Victoria's day, in Queen Victoria's times

• cualquier día (de estos) — one of these days

cualquier día tendrá un accidente — he's going to have an accident one of these days o any day now

¡cualquier día! — iró not on your life!

cualquier día viene — iró we'll be waiting till the cows come home for him to turn up

¡cualquier día te voy a comprar una casa! — if you think I'm going to buy you a house you've got another think coming!

• en nuestros días — nowadays

la prensa de nuestros días — today's press, the press these days

uno de los principales problemas de nuestros días — one of the major problems of our day o our times

ha durado hasta nuestros días — it has lasted to the present day

• otro día — some other day, another day

dejémoslo para otro día — let's leave it for the moment o for another day

¡hasta otro día! — so long!

- de un día para otro

- en días de Dios o del mundo o de la vida

- en su día

- ¡tal día hará un año!

5) (=actualidad)

• del día — [estilo] fashionable, up-to-date
(=fresco)
pescado del día — fresh fish

• estar al día — (=actualizado) to be up to date; (=de moda) to be with it

quien quiera estar al día en esta especialidad, que lea... — anyone who wishes to keep up to date with this area of study, should read...

está al día vestir así — it's the thing to dress like that

• poner al día — [+ texto, contabilidad] to bring up to date; [+ base de datos] to update; [+ diario] to write up

• ponerse al día (en algo) — to get up to date (with sth)

• vivir al día — to live from one day to the next

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masculino

1)

a) ( veinticuatro horas) day

todos los días — every day

el día anterior — the day before, the previous day

el día siguiente — the next o the following day

el día de ayer/hoy — (frml) yesterday/today

una vez/dos veces al día — once/twice a day

trabaja doce horas por día — she works a twelve-hour day

un día sí y otro no — every other day, on alternate days

día (de) por medio — (AmL) every other day, on alternate days

dentro de quince días — in two weeks o (BrE) a fortnight

cada día — every day

el pan nuestro de cada día — our daily bread

la lucha de cada día — the daily struggle

buenos días or (RPl) buen día — good morning

día a día lo veía envejecer — day by day she saw him getting older

día tras día — day after day

al día: estoy al día en los pagos I'm up to date with the payments; ponerse al día con algo <noticias/trabajo> to get up to date on/with something; ponga al día su correspondencia bring your correspondence up to date; de un día para otro overnight, from one day to the next; día y noche day and night, continually; hoy en día nowadays, these days; mantenerse al día to keep abreast of things, keep up to date; todo el santo día all day long; se pasa todo el santo día en el teléfono he's on the phone all day long; vivir al día — to live from hand to mouth

b) ( jornada) day

trabajan cuatro días a la semana — they work four days a week, they work a four-day week

un día laborable de 8 horas — an eight-hour working day

c) ( fecha)

¿qué día es hoy? — what day is it today?

empieza el día dos — it starts on the second

hasta el día 5 de junio — until June fifth, until the fifth of June

- día de Año Nuevo

- día de entresemana

- día de la madre

- día del juicio final

- día de los enamorados

- día de los inocentes

- día de los muertos

- día de todos los santos

- día festivo or feriado

- día hábil/laborable

- día lectivo

- día libre

2) ( horas de luz) day

duerme durante el día — it sleeps during the day o daytime

ya era de día — it was already light o day

al caer el día — at dusk, at twilight

nunca ve la luz del día — he never sees the daylight

en pleno día — in broad daylight

de día claro — (Chi) in broad daylight

3) ( tiempo indeterminado) day

pásate por casa un día — why don't you drop in sometime o one day?

ya me lo agradecerás algún día — you'll thank me for it one day

el día que tengas hijos — when you have children of your own

si el plan se realiza algún día — if the plan is ever put into effect

lo haremos otro día — we'll do it some other time

cualquier día de estos — any day now

un día de estos — one of these days

hasta otro día! — so long!, see you!

el día menos pensado — when you least expect it

en su día: se lo contaré en su día I'll tell him in due course; dio lugar a un gran escándalo en su día it caused a huge scandal in its day o time; un buen día — one fine day

4) días masculino plural (vida, tiempo) days (pl)

tiene los días contados — his days are numbered, he won't last long

desde el siglo XVII hasta nuestros días — from the 17th Century to the present day

estar en sus días — (Méx fam) to have one's period

5) ( tiempo atmosférico) day

hace un día nublado/caluroso — it's cloudy/hot
•• Cultural note:
Día de la Hispanidad

&rarrow; Día de la Raza

Día de la Raza

In Latin America, the anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, October 12. In Spain it is known as día de la Hispanidad. It symbolizes the cultural ties shared by Spanish-speaking countries

Día de los (Santos) Inocentes

On December 28 people in the Spanish-speaking world celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents, a religious festival commemorating the New Testament story of the massacre of the ‘Innocents’, by playing practical jokes, or inocentadas, on one another. The classic inocentada is to hang paper dolls on someone's back without their knowing. Spoof news stories also appear in newspapers and the media

Día del Trabajo

In Latin America and Spain, Labor Day is celebrated on May Day. In many Latin American countries, where workers still suffer greatly from low wages and bad working conditions, May Day celebrations often have strong overtones of protest

Día de todos los Santos or (in Spain) de los Difuntos or (in Latin America) de los Muertos

Celebrated on November 1, is a day on when people place flowers on the graves of loved ones. In Mexico it is common to hold a party by the grave. A feast is prepared, in which the dead person is symbolically included

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= date, day.

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* 24 horas al día = around the clock.

* 365 días al año = year-round.

* acabar + Posesivo + días en = end up + Posesivo + days in.

* a cualquier hora del día o de la noche = at any hour of the day or night, at any time of the day or night.

* a día de hoy = as of today.

* a la luz del día = in the light of day.

* al despuntar el día = at the crack of dawn.

* al día = in step, paid-up, in good standing.

* al día de = in step with.

* al día de hoy = as of today.

* al día siguiente = the next day.

* alegrarle el día a Alguien = brighten up + Posesivo + day, make + Posesivo + day.

* al final del día = at the close of the day.

* algún día = one day.

* al romper el día = at the crack of dawn.

* a medida que + avanzar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* a medida que + pasar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* a medida que + transcurrir + el día = as the day + wear on.

* a plena luz del día = in broad daylight.

* a un día de distancia de = one day away from.

* barba de tres días = stubble beard, stubble.

* barba de tres días de moda = designer stubble.

* billete para otro día = rain cheque [rain check, -USA].

* buenos días = good morning.

* cada día = every day.

* cada día que pasa = each passing day.

* cada dos días = every other day.

* centro de día = day care centre, day centre.

* centro de día para mayores = day centre for the elderly.

* como el día y la noche = worlds apart, like oil and water, like chalk and cheese, like apples and oranges.

* como la noche y el día = like oil and water, worlds apart, like apples and oranges.

* conforme + avanzar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* conforme + pasar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* conforme + transcurrir + el día = as the day + wear on.

* de cada día = day to day [day-to-day].

* de cinco días de duración = five-day.

* de cuatro días de duración = four-day.

* de día = in the daytime, during the daytime, during daytime.

* de día a día = from day to day.

* de día y de noche = day and night, night and day.

* de dos días de duración = two-day [2-day].

* de hoy día = of today.

* de hoy en día = of today.

* dejar Algo para otro día = take + a rain cheque.

* del día o de la noche = day or night.

* de medio día de duración = half-day [half day].

* de + Número + días de duración = Número + day-long.

* de puesta al día = top-up.

* desde el primer día = from day one.

* desde ese día = since that day.

* desde + Expresión Temporal + hasta hoy día = from + Expresión Temporal + up to the present day.

* de una día de duración = one-day.

* de un día de duración = day-long, full-day.

* día abrasador = scorcher.

* día aburrido = dull day.

* día a día = day by day.

* día a día de, el = day-to-day running of, the.

* día a día, el = daily situation.

* día caluroso = scorcher.

* día corriente = ordinary day.

* Día de Acción de Gracias = Thanksgiving.

* día de compras = shopping trip.

* día de descanso = holiday.

* día de entre semana = weekday.

* día de fiesta = holiday, public holiday.

* día de la apertura = opening day.

* día de la boda = wedding day.

* día de la inauguración = opening day.

* día de la madre, el = Mother's Day, Mothering Sunday.

* día de las elecciones = election day.

* Día de la Tierra = Earth Day.

* día de la votación = election day.

* día del deporte = sports day.

* día del Juicio Final = doomsday, Judgement Day.

* día de lluvia = rainy day.

* Día de los Caídos = Memorial Day.

* día de los enamorados, el = St. Valentine's Day.

* día de los Reyes Magos, el = Epiphany, the.

* Día de los (Santos) Inocentes, el = April Fools' Day.

* día de los trabajadores = Labour Day.

* día del padre, el = Father's Day.

* día del trabajo = Labour Day.

* día de mucho calor = scorcher.

* día de Navidad = Christmas Day.

* día de perros = bad hair day.

* día de San Valentín, el = St. Valentine's Day.

* día de sol = sunny day.

* Día de Todos los Santos = All Saints' Day.

* día de trabajo = working day.

* día de un santo = saint's day.

* día de verano = summer day.

* día escolar = school day.

* día especial = red-letter day.

* día + estar por llegar = day + be + yet to come.

* día festivo = holiday, public holiday, bank holiday.

* día funesto = bad hair day.

* día hábil = business day, workday, weekday, working day.

* día internacional de los trabajadores = Labour Day.

* día internacional del trabajo = Labour Day.

* día laborable = workday, business day, weekday, working day.

* día libre = day off.

* día libre por trabajo extra = compensatory day off.

* día lluvioso = rainy day.

* día malo = bad hair day.

* día memorable = red-letter day.

* día normal = ordinary day.

* día que pasa = passing day.

* día + romper = day + break.

* día señalado = red-letter day.

* día soleado = sunny day.

* días universitarios = school days.

* día tras día = day after day, day in and day out, day by day.

* día veraniego = summer day.

* día y noche = round the clock, day and night, night and day, around the clock.

* durante días = for days.

* durante días y días = for days on end.

* durante el día = by day, by day, daytime [day-time], in the daytime, during the daytime, during daytime.

* durante todo el día = all day long.

* echar muchas horas al día = work + long hours.

* echársele a Uno el día encima = make + hay while the sun shines.

* el pan nuestro de cada día = all in a day's work.

* en días alternos = every other day.

* en el día a día = in the day to day, in the trenches.

* en el orden del día = on the agenda.

* en estos días = today, these days.

* en los próximos días = in the next few days, over the next few days.

* en los últimos días = in recent days.

* en pleno día = in broad daylight.

* en su día = in its day.

* entrada para otro día = rain cheque [rain check, -USA].

* estar a la orden del día = be the order of the day.

* estar al día = monitor + developments, stay on top of + the game, stay on top of, stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things.

* estos días = these days.

* excursión de un día de duración = day trip.

* excursionista de día = day hiker.

* excursionista de un día = day-tripper.

* exponer a la luz del día = expose to + daylight.

* flor de un día = flash in the pan.

* ganarse el pan de cada día = get + Posesivo + bread, earn + Posesivo + bread, earn + Posesivo + bread and butter.

* hacer de la noche día = burn + the candle at both ends.

* hace unos cuantos días = a few days ago.

* hace unos días = a few days ago.

* hace unos pocos días = a few days ago.

* hospital de día = day hospital.

* hoy día = nowadays, present day, the, today, in this day and age.

* hoy en día = in this day and age, at the present time.

* inscripción por un día = day registration.

* la pesca del día = the day's catch, the catch of the day.

* leche del día = fresh milk.

* los 365 días del año = year-round.

* los días antes de = leading up to.

* luz del día = daylight.

* mal día = bad hair day.

* mantenerse al día = keep up to + date (with), keep up with + the current scene, keep + current.

* mantenerse al día de = keep + abreast of, keep + pace with, keep up with, stay + abreast of, keep + a finger on the pulse of, stay in + step with, keep in + step with, keep + step with.

* mantenerse al día de las noticias = keep up with + the news.

* mantenerse al día de los avances = track + developments.

* más largo que un día sin pan = as long as (my/your) arm.

* medio día = one-half day.

* menú del día = table d'hote, set menu.

* noche y día = day and night, night and day.

* Número + al día = Número + a day.

* orden del día = agenda.

* pasar los días = spend + Posesivo + days.

* permanentemente los siete días de la semana = 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

* píldora del día después = morning-after pill.

* poner al día = bring + Nombre + up to date, bring + Nombre + up to scratch.

* poner al día (de) = bring + Nombre + up to speed (on), get + Nombre + up to speed on.

* ponerse al día = catching up, come up to + speed, get + up to speed.

* ponerse al día de = catch up on.

* ponerse al día de un atraso = clear + backlog.

* ponerse al día en = catch up with.

* por el día = daytime [day-time], during the daytime, in the daytime, during daytime.

* por el día o por la noche = day or night.

* por el día y por la noche = night and day.

* por el día y por la noche = day and night.

* puesta al día = catch-up [catchup], updatability, update [up-date].

* puesta al día del personal = staff development.

* punto del orden del día = agenda item.

* seguir al día = remain on top of.

* ser como el día y la noche = different as night and day.

* servicio de atención de día = day care.

* servicio de cuidado de día = day care.

* sesión de puesta al día = briefing session.

* sin afeitar desde hace varios días = stubbly [stubblier -comp., stubbliest -sup.].

* tener los días contados = day + be + numbered, be doomed, doomed, be dead meat, the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* tener un buen día = have + a good day.

* tener un día muy largo = have + a long day.

* tener un mal día = have + a bad day.

* ticket para otro día = rain cheque [rain check, -USA].

* todo el día = all day, all day long, around the clock.

* todo el santo día = all day long.

* todos los días = daily, on a daily basis, every day, day in and day out.

* tomarse unos días de asuntos propios = take + time off, take + time out, take + time off work.

* tomarse unos días de descanso = take + a break from work.

* tomarse unos días de permiso = take + a leave of absence.

* tomarse unos días de permiso en el trabajo = take + time off work.

* tomarse unos días de permiso en el trabajo = take + time off, take + time out.

* tomarse unos días de vacaciones = take + time off, take + time out, take + time off work.

* trabajar de día y de noche = work + day and night.

* trabajar día y noche = work + Reflexivo + to the ground, work + Reflexivo + to death, work (a)round + the clock.

* trabajar las veinticuatro horas del día = work (a)round + the clock.

* trabajar muchas horas al día = work + long hours.

* trabajar noche y día = work + day and night.

* un día de descanso = a day away from.

* un día fuera = a day out.

* un día haciendo algo diferente = a day away from.

* un día normal = on a typical day.

* un día sí y otro no = every other day.

* un día sí y otro también = day in and day out.

* un día tras otro = day after day.

* un día y medio = one and a half days.

* unos días más tarde = a few days later.

* veinticuatro horas al día, siete días a la semana, 365 días al año = 24/7, 24/7/365.

* ver la luz del día = see + the light of day.

* visitante turístico de un día = day-tripper.

* visita turística de una día de duración = day trip.

* volver a ponerse al día = be back on track, be on track.

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masculino

1)

a) ( veinticuatro horas) day

todos los días — every day

el día anterior — the day before, the previous day

el día siguiente — the next o the following day

el día de ayer/hoy — (frml) yesterday/today

una vez/dos veces al día — once/twice a day

trabaja doce horas por día — she works a twelve-hour day

un día sí y otro no — every other day, on alternate days

día (de) por medio — (AmL) every other day, on alternate days

dentro de quince días — in two weeks o (BrE) a fortnight

cada día — every day

el pan nuestro de cada día — our daily bread

la lucha de cada día — the daily struggle

buenos días or (RPl) buen día — good morning

día a día lo veía envejecer — day by day she saw him getting older

día tras día — day after day

al día: estoy al día en los pagos I'm up to date with the payments; ponerse al día con algo <noticias/trabajo> to get up to date on/with something; ponga al día su correspondencia bring your correspondence up to date; de un día para otro overnight, from one day to the next; día y noche day and night, continually; hoy en día nowadays, these days; mantenerse al día to keep abreast of things, keep up to date; todo el santo día all day long; se pasa todo el santo día en el teléfono he's on the phone all day long; vivir al día — to live from hand to mouth

b) ( jornada) day

trabajan cuatro días a la semana — they work four days a week, they work a four-day week

un día laborable de 8 horas — an eight-hour working day

c) ( fecha)

¿qué día es hoy? — what day is it today?

empieza el día dos — it starts on the second

hasta el día 5 de junio — until June fifth, until the fifth of June

- día de Año Nuevo

- día de entresemana

- día de la madre

- día del juicio final

- día de los enamorados

- día de los inocentes

- día de los muertos

- día de todos los santos

- día festivo or feriado

- día hábil/laborable

- día lectivo

- día libre

2) ( horas de luz) day

duerme durante el día — it sleeps during the day o daytime

ya era de día — it was already light o day

al caer el día — at dusk, at twilight

nunca ve la luz del día — he never sees the daylight

en pleno día — in broad daylight

de día claro — (Chi) in broad daylight

3) ( tiempo indeterminado) day

pásate por casa un día — why don't you drop in sometime o one day?

ya me lo agradecerás algún día — you'll thank me for it one day

el día que tengas hijos — when you have children of your own

si el plan se realiza algún día — if the plan is ever put into effect

lo haremos otro día — we'll do it some other time

cualquier día de estos — any day now

un día de estos — one of these days

hasta otro día! — so long!, see you!

el día menos pensado — when you least expect it

en su día: se lo contaré en su día I'll tell him in due course; dio lugar a un gran escándalo en su día it caused a huge scandal in its day o time; un buen día — one fine day

4) días masculino plural (vida, tiempo) days (pl)

tiene los días contados — his days are numbered, he won't last long

desde el siglo XVII hasta nuestros días — from the 17th Century to the present day

estar en sus días — (Méx fam) to have one's period

5) ( tiempo atmosférico) day

hace un día nublado/caluroso — it's cloudy/hot
•• Cultural note:
Día de la Hispanidad

&rarrow; Día de la Raza

Día de la Raza

In Latin America, the anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, October 12. In Spain it is known as día de la Hispanidad. It symbolizes the cultural ties shared by Spanish-speaking countries

Día de los (Santos) Inocentes

On December 28 people in the Spanish-speaking world celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents, a religious festival commemorating the New Testament story of the massacre of the ‘Innocents’, by playing practical jokes, or inocentadas, on one another. The classic inocentada is to hang paper dolls on someone's back without their knowing. Spoof news stories also appear in newspapers and the media

Día del Trabajo

In Latin America and Spain, Labor Day is celebrated on May Day. In many Latin American countries, where workers still suffer greatly from low wages and bad working conditions, May Day celebrations often have strong overtones of protest

Día de todos los Santos or (in Spain) de los Difuntos or (in Latin America) de los Muertos

Celebrated on November 1, is a day on when people place flowers on the graves of loved ones. In Mexico it is common to hold a party by the grave. A feast is prepared, in which the dead person is symbolically included

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* 24 horas al día = around the clock.

* 365 días al año = year-round.

* acabar + Posesivo + días en = end up + Posesivo + days in.

* a cualquier hora del día o de la noche = at any hour of the day or night, at any time of the day or night.

* a día de hoy = as of today.

* a la luz del día = in the light of day.

* al despuntar el día = at the crack of dawn.

* al día = in step, paid-up, in good standing.

* al día de = in step with.

* al día de hoy = as of today.

* al día siguiente = the next day.

* alegrarle el día a Alguien = brighten up + Posesivo + day, make + Posesivo + day.

* al final del día = at the close of the day.

* algún día = one day.

* al romper el día = at the crack of dawn.

* a medida que + avanzar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* a medida que + pasar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* a medida que + transcurrir + el día = as the day + wear on.

* a plena luz del día = in broad daylight.

* a un día de distancia de = one day away from.

* barba de tres días = stubble beard, stubble.

* barba de tres días de moda = designer stubble.

* billete para otro día = rain cheque [rain check, -USA].

* buenos días = good morning.

* cada día = every day.

* cada día que pasa = each passing day.

* cada dos días = every other day.

* centro de día = day care centre, day centre.

* centro de día para mayores = day centre for the elderly.

* como el día y la noche = worlds apart, like oil and water, like chalk and cheese, like apples and oranges.

* como la noche y el día = like oil and water, worlds apart, like apples and oranges.

* conforme + avanzar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* conforme + pasar + el día = as the day + wear on.

* conforme + transcurrir + el día = as the day + wear on.

* de cada día = day to day [day-to-day].

* de cinco días de duración = five-day.

* de cuatro días de duración = four-day.

* de día = in the daytime, during the daytime, during daytime.

* de día a día = from day to day.

* de día y de noche = day and night, night and day.

* de dos días de duración = two-day [2-day].

* de hoy día = of today.

* de hoy en día = of today.

* dejar Algo para otro día = take + a rain cheque.

* del día o de la noche = day or night.

* de medio día de duración = half-day [half day].

* de + Número + días de duración = Número + day-long.

* de puesta al día = top-up.

* desde el primer día = from day one.

* desde ese día = since that day.

* desde + Expresión Temporal + hasta hoy día = from + Expresión Temporal + up to the present day.

* de una día de duración = one-day.

* de un día de duración = day-long, full-day.

* día abrasador = scorcher.

* día aburrido = dull day.

* día a día = day by day.

* día a día de, el = day-to-day running of, the.

* día a día, el = daily situation.

* día caluroso = scorcher.

* día corriente = ordinary day.

* Día de Acción de Gracias = Thanksgiving.

* día de compras = shopping trip.

* día de descanso = holiday.

* día de entre semana = weekday.

* día de fiesta = holiday, public holiday.

* día de la apertura = opening day.

* día de la boda = wedding day.

* día de la inauguración = opening day.

* día de la madre, el = Mother's Day, Mothering Sunday.

* día de las elecciones = election day.

* Día de la Tierra = Earth Day.

* día de la votación = election day.

* día del deporte = sports day.

* día del Juicio Final = doomsday, Judgement Day.

* día de lluvia = rainy day.

* Día de los Caídos = Memorial Day.

* día de los enamorados, el = St. Valentine's Day.

* día de los Reyes Magos, el = Epiphany, the.

* Día de los (Santos) Inocentes, el = April Fools' Day.

* día de los trabajadores = Labour Day.

* día del padre, el = Father's Day.

* día del trabajo = Labour Day.

* día de mucho calor = scorcher.

* día de Navidad = Christmas Day.

* día de perros = bad hair day.

* día de San Valentín, el = St. Valentine's Day.

* día de sol = sunny day.

* Día de Todos los Santos = All Saints' Day.

* día de trabajo = working day.

* día de un santo = saint's day.

* día de verano = summer day.

* día escolar = school day.

* día especial = red-letter day.

* día + estar por llegar = day + be + yet to come.

* día festivo = holiday, public holiday, bank holiday.

* día funesto = bad hair day.

* día hábil = business day, workday, weekday, working day.

* día internacional de los trabajadores = Labour Day.

* día internacional del trabajo = Labour Day.

* día laborable = workday, business day, weekday, working day.

* día libre = day off.

* día libre por trabajo extra = compensatory day off.

* día lluvioso = rainy day.

* día malo = bad hair day.

* día memorable = red-letter day.

* día normal = ordinary day.

* día que pasa = passing day.

* día + romper = day + break.

* día señalado = red-letter day.

* día soleado = sunny day.

* días universitarios = school days.

* día tras día = day after day, day in and day out, day by day.

* día veraniego = summer day.

* día y noche = round the clock, day and night, night and day, around the clock.

* durante días = for days.

* durante días y días = for days on end.

* durante el día = by day, by day, daytime [day-time], in the daytime, during the daytime, during daytime.

* durante todo el día = all day long.

* echar muchas horas al día = work + long hours.

* echársele a Uno el día encima = make + hay while the sun shines.

* el pan nuestro de cada día = all in a day's work.

* en días alternos = every other day.

* en el día a día = in the day to day, in the trenches.

* en el orden del día = on the agenda.

* en estos días = today, these days.

* en los próximos días = in the next few days, over the next few days.

* en los últimos días = in recent days.

* en pleno día = in broad daylight.

* en su día = in its day.

* entrada para otro día = rain cheque [rain check, -USA].

* estar a la orden del día = be the order of the day.

* estar al día = monitor + developments, stay on top of + the game, stay on top of, stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things.

* estos días = these days.

* excursión de un día de duración = day trip.

* excursionista de día = day hiker.

* excursionista de un día = day-tripper.

* exponer a la luz del día = expose to + daylight.

* flor de un día = flash in the pan.

* ganarse el pan de cada día = get + Posesivo + bread, earn + Posesivo + bread, earn + Posesivo + bread and butter.

* hacer de la noche día = burn + the candle at both ends.

* hace unos cuantos días = a few days ago.

* hace unos días = a few days ago.

* hace unos pocos días = a few days ago.

* hospital de día = day hospital.

* hoy día = nowadays, present day, the, today, in this day and age.

* hoy en día = in this day and age, at the present time.

* inscripción por un día = day registration.

* la pesca del día = the day's catch, the catch of the day.

* leche del día = fresh milk.

* los 365 días del año = year-round.

* los días antes de = leading up to.

* luz del día = daylight.

* mal día = bad hair day.

* mantenerse al día = keep up to + date (with), keep up with + the current scene, keep + current.

* mantenerse al día de = keep + abreast of, keep + pace with, keep up with, stay + abreast of, keep + a finger on the pulse of, stay in + step with, keep in + step with, keep + step with.

* mantenerse al día de las noticias = keep up with + the news.

* mantenerse al día de los avances = track + developments.

* más largo que un día sin pan = as long as (my/your) arm.

* medio día = one-half day.

* menú del día = table d'hote, set menu.

* noche y día = day and night, night and day.

* Número + al día = Número + a day.

* orden del día = agenda.

* pasar los días = spend + Posesivo + days.

* permanentemente los siete días de la semana = 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

* píldora del día después = morning-after pill.

* poner al día = bring + Nombre + up to date, bring + Nombre + up to scratch.

* poner al día (de) = bring + Nombre + up to speed (on), get + Nombre + up to speed on.

* ponerse al día = catching up, come up to + speed, get + up to speed.

* ponerse al día de = catch up on.

* ponerse al día de un atraso = clear + backlog.

* ponerse al día en = catch up with.

* por el día = daytime [day-time], during the daytime, in the daytime, during daytime.

* por el día o por la noche = day or night.

* por el día y por la noche = night and day.

* por el día y por la noche = day and night.

* puesta al día = catch-up [catchup], updatability, update [up-date].

* puesta al día del personal = staff development.

* punto del orden del día = agenda item.

* seguir al día = remain on top of.

* ser como el día y la noche = different as night and day.

* servicio de atención de día = day care.

* servicio de cuidado de día = day care.

* sesión de puesta al día = briefing session.

* sin afeitar desde hace varios días = stubbly [stubblier -comp., stubbliest -sup.].

* tener los días contados = day + be + numbered, be doomed, doomed, be dead meat, the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.

* tener un buen día = have + a good day.

* tener un día muy largo = have + a long day.

* tener un mal día = have + a bad day.

* ticket para otro día = rain cheque [rain check, -USA].

* todo el día = all day, all day long, around the clock.

* todo el santo día = all day long.

* todos los días = daily, on a daily basis, every day, day in and day out.

* tomarse unos días de asuntos propios = take + time off, take + time out, take + time off work.

* tomarse unos días de descanso = take + a break from work.

* tomarse unos días de permiso = take + a leave of absence.

* tomarse unos días de permiso en el trabajo = take + time off work.

* tomarse unos días de permiso en el trabajo = take + time off, take + time out.

* tomarse unos días de vacaciones = take + time off, take + time out, take + time off work.

* trabajar de día y de noche = work + day and night.

* trabajar día y noche = work + Reflexivo + to the ground, work + Reflexivo + to death, work (a)round + the clock.

* trabajar las veinticuatro horas del día = work (a)round + the clock.

* trabajar muchas horas al día = work + long hours.

* trabajar noche y día = work + day and night.

* un día de descanso = a day away from.

* un día fuera = a day out.

* un día haciendo algo diferente = a day away from.

* un día normal = on a typical day.

* un día sí y otro no = every other day.

* un día sí y otro también = day in and day out.

* un día tras otro = day after day.

* un día y medio = one and a half days.

* unos días más tarde = a few days later.

* veinticuatro horas al día, siete días a la semana, 365 días al año = 24/7, 24/7/365.

* ver la luz del día = see + the light of day.

* visitante turístico de un día = day-tripper.

* visita turística de una día de duración = day trip.

* volver a ponerse al día = be back on track, be on track.

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día

masculine

A

1 (veinticuatro horas) day

¿qué día es hoy? what day is it today?

todos los días every day

no es algo que pase todos los días it's not something that happens every day, it's not an everyday occurrence

el día anterior the day before, the previous day

el día siguiente era domingo the next o the following day was Sunday

al día siguiente or al otro día volvió a suceder it happened again the following o the next day

el día de ayer/hoy ( frml); yesterday/today

una vez/dos veces al día once/twice a day

trabaja doce horas por día she works twelve hours a day, she works a twelve-hour day

un día sí y otro no every other day, on alternate days

día (de) por medio ( AmL); every other day, on alternate days

dentro de ocho días in a week

dentro de quince días in two weeks o ( BrE) a fortnight

el otro día la vi I saw her the other day

está cada día más delgado he gets thinner every day o with every day that passes

viene cada día a quejarse he comes here every day to complain

el pan nuestro de cada día our daily bread

la lucha de cada día the daily struggle

buenos días or ( RPl) buen día good morning

día a día lo veía envejecer day by day she saw him getting older

le entregaba día a día una cantidad determinada he gave her a certain amount of money every day o daily o on a daily basis

día tras día day after day

al día: ¿tienes el trabajo al día? is your work all up to date?

estoy al día en los pagos I'm up to date with the payments

está siempre al día con las noticias he's always well up on the news

ponga al día su correspondencia bring your correspondence up to date

ponerse al día con algo (con las noticias) to get up to date with sth; (con el trabajo) to catch up on sth

el día a día the daily round o routine

(de) tal día hará un año see if I/we care

de un día para otro overnight, from one day to the next

día y noche day and night, continually

hoy en día nowadays, these days

mantenerse al día to keep abreast of things, keep up to date

todo el santo día all day long

se pasa todo el santo día hablando por teléfono he's on the phone all day long, he spends the whole day on the phone

2 (jornada) day

trabajan cuatro días a la semana they work four days a week, they work a four-day week

un día laborable de 8 horas an eight-hour working day

3 [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ]

(fecha): la reunión que tuvo lugar el día 17 the meeting which took place on the 17th

empieza el día dos it starts on the second

hasta el día 5 de junio until June fifth, until the fifth of June

pan del día fresh bread, bread baked today

vivir al día to live from hand to mouth

orden² (↑ orden (2)), menú

Compuestos:

● día azul

(en Esp) blue day ( when cheaper fares are available)

● día de ajuste de cuentas

day of reckoning

● día de Año Nuevo

el día de Año Nuevo New Year's Day

● día de asueto

day off

● día de diario

weekday

● día de entrega

(de pedido) delivery date; (de trabajo, tarea) deadline; (de solicitudes) closing date

el día de entrega de regalos es el 24 de diciembre the date for giving presents is December 24

● día de entresemana

weekday

● día de la expiación

day of atonement

● día de fiesta

holiday

● día de la Hispanidad

( Esp): el día de la Hispanidad Columbus Day; Día de la Raza (↑ día aa1)

● día de la independencia

independence day

● día de la madre

Mother's Day

● día de la raza

( AmL): el día de la raza Columbus Day

● día del juicio final

el día del juicio final Judgment Day, the Day of Judgment

● día del libro

(national) book day

● día del orgullo gay

gay pride day

● día del Señor

el día del Señor the Lord's Day

● día del trabajo or de los trabajadores

el día del trabajo or de los trabajadores Labor* day

Día del Trabajo (↑ día aaaa1)

● día de los difuntos

( Esp): el día de los difuntos All Souls' Day

Día de todos los Santos or (in Spain) de los Difuntos or (in Latin America) de los Muertos (↑ día aaaaa1)

● día de los enamorados

(St) Valentine's Day

● día de los inocentes

December 28 ( day when people play practical jokes on each other), ≈ April Fool's Day Día de los (Santos) Inocentes (↑ día aaa1)

● día de los muertos

( AmL): el día de los muertos All Souls' Day

Día de todos los Santos or (in Spain) de los Difuntos or (in Latin America) de los Muertos (↑ día aaaaa1)

● día de Reyes

el día de Reyes Epiphany

● día de San Valentín

el día de San Valentín (St) Valentine's Day

● día de todos los santos

el día de todos los santos All Saints' Day

Día de todos los Santos or (in Spain) de los Difuntos or (in Latin America) de los Muertos (↑ día aaaaa1)

● día de vencimiento

(de carnet, licencia) expiration date ( AmE), expiry date ( BrE); (de intereses, letra, pago) due date; (de plazo) closing date

● día festivo or ( AmL tb) feriado

public holiday

● día hábil

working day

● día laborable

working day

● día lectivo

school ( o college etc) day

● día libre

(sin trabajo) day off; (sin compromisos) free day

● día sandwich

(CS) day taken as vacation between two public holidays

● día sidéreo

sidereal day

● día solar

solar day

● días naturales

calendar days

B (horas de luz) day

duerme durante el día it sleeps during the day o daytime

ya era de día it was already light o day

al caer el día at dusk, at twilight

nunca ve la luz del día he never sees the daylight

en pleno día in broad daylight

de día claro ( Chi); in broad daylight

C (tiempo indeterminado) day

tienes que pasar por casa un día you must drop in sometime o some day o one day

si un día te aburres y te quieres ir … if one day you get fed up and you want to leave …

ya me lo agradecerás algún día you'll thank me for it one day

el día que tengas hijos, sabrás lo que es when you have children of your own, you'll know just what it involves

¿cuándo será el día que te vea entusiasmada? when will I ever see you show some enthusiasm?

si el plan se realiza algún día if the plan is ever put into effect, if the plan is one day put into effect

lo haremos otro día we'll do it another o some other time

cualquier día de estos any day now

un día de estos one of these days

¡hasta otro día! so long!, see you!

¡cualquier día! ( iró): podríamos invitarlos a cenar — ¡cualquier día! we could have them round for dinner — over my dead body!

cualquier día vuelvo yo a prestarle el coche that's the last time I lend him the car, no way will I ever lend him the car again! ( colloq)

quizás nos ofrece más dinero — ¡cualquier día! maybe he'll offer us more money — sure, and pigs might fly! ( iro)

el día menos pensado when you least expect it

en su día: compraremos las provisiones en su día we'll buy our supplies later on o in due course

dio lugar a un gran escándalo en su día it caused a huge scandal in its day o time

un buen día one fine day

D días mpl (vida, tiempo) days (pl)

tiene los días contados his days are numbered, he won't last long

desde el siglo XVII hasta nuestros días from the 17th Century to the present day

en días de tu bisabuelo back in your great-grandfather's day o time

estar en sus días ( Méx fam); to have one's period

E (tiempo atmosférico) day

hace un día nublado/caluroso it's a cloudy/hot day, it's cloudy/hot

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día sustantivo masculino
1
a) ( en general) day;

◊ todos los días every day;

día a día day by day;
de or durante el día during the day;
el día anterior the day before, the previous day;
el día siguiente the next o the following day;
trabaja doce horas por día she works twelve hours a day;
un día sí y otro no or (AmL) día (de) por medio every other day, on alternate days;
dentro de quince días in two weeks o (BrE) a fortnight;
cada día every day;
buenos días or (RPl) buen día good morning;
al día: una vez al día once a day;
estoy al día en los pagos I'm up to date with the payments;
poner algo al día to bring sth up to date;
ponerse al día con algo ( con noticias) to get up to date with sth;

( con trabajo) to catch up on sth;
◊ mantenerse al día to keep up to date;

de un día para otro overnight;
hoy en día nowadays, these days
b) ( fecha):

◊ ¿qué día es hoy? what day is it today?;

empieza el día dos it starts on the second;
el día de Año Nuevo New Year's Day;
día de los enamorados (St) Valentine's Day;
día de los inocentes December 28, ≈ April Fool's Day;
día de Reyes Epiphany;
día festivo or (AmL) feriado public holiday;
día laborable working day;
día libre ( sin trabajo) day off;

( sin compromisos) free day
2
a) ( tiempo indeterminado) day;

◊ algún día one day;

lo haremos otro día we'll do it some other time;
un día de estos one of these days;
¡hasta otro día! so long!, see you!;
el día menos pensado when you least expect it
b)

◊ días sustantivo masculino plural (vida, tiempo) days (pl);

tiene los días contados his days are numbered;
hasta nuestros días (up) to the present day
día sustantivo masculino day
una vez al día, once a day
(fecha) ¿qué día es hoy?, what's the date today?
(estado del tiempo) hace buen/mal día, it's a nice/bad day o the weather is nice/bad today
(periodo de luz diurna) daytime, daylight: duerme durante el día y trabaja por la noche, she sleeps during the daytime and works at night
(momento, ocasión) el día que me toque la lotería, the day I win the lottery
se lo diré otro día, I'll tell him some other day
Día de la Madre, Mothers' Day
día festivo, holiday
día hábil/ laborable, working day
día lectivo, school day
día libre, free day, day off
día natural, day
♦ Locuciones: al día, up to date
día a día, day by day
de día, by day, during daylight
de un día para otro, overnight
del día, fresh
día y noche, twenty-four hours a day, constantly
el día de mañana, in the future
el otro día, the other day
hoy (en) día, nowadays
' día' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- actual
- ancha
- ancho
- anochecer
- anterior
- asueto
- barriga
- bastante
- bocado
- bregar
- cada
- caer
- cascar
- cháchara
- comida
- concebir
- danza
- de
- dejar
- descanso
- desgraciada
- desgraciado
- después
- despuntar
- devenir
- disgusto
- dos
- durante
- encerrarse
- encima
- estar
- fastidiarse
- festiva
- festivo
- fiesta
- fijar
- flipar
- flor
- gay
- golfa
- golfo
- gozosa
- gozoso
- hasta
- histórica
- histórico
- hoy
- infeliz
- inocentada
English:
A
- abreast
- act up
- adjourn
- after
- agenda
- all
- antisexist
- any
- April Fools' Day
- aspire
- average
- bad
- before
- Boxing Day
- bread
- break
- bright
- brightness
- by
- carry over
- catch up
- Christmas Day
- clear
- clock
- close
- commute
- coop up
- crack
- cranberry
- cream
- daily
- date
- dawn
- day
- day off
- day shift
- day trip
- daylight
- daytime
- delightful
- dinner
- disastrous
- do
- doomsday
- dream
- entire
- eruption
- escape
- event

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día nm

1. [periodo de tiempo] day;

un día de campo a day out in the countryside;

todos los días every day;

tres veces al día three times a day;

iremos unos días a la playa we're going to the seaside for a few days;

el referéndum se celebrará el día 25 de abril the referendum will take place on 25 April;

un día martes one Tuesday;

me voy el día 8 I'm going on the 8th;

me pagan el primer día de cada mes I get paid on the first of each month;

¿a qué día estamos? what day is it today?;

al día siguiente (on) the following day;

a los pocos días a few days later;

al otro día the next day, the day after;

el otro día the other day;

un día sí y otro no every other day;
Fam Hum
un día sí y (el) otro también every blessed day;
Am
día por medio every other day;

un día entre semana a weekday;

algún día me lo agradecerás you'll thank me some day;

tienes que venir por casa algún día you should come round some time o one day;

¡buenos días!, RP [m5]¡buen día! good morning!;

un día me voy a enfadar one of these days I'm going to get angry;

cualquier o [m5] un día de éstos one of these days;

el día de hoy today;

el día de mañana in the future;

el día menos pensado… when you least expect it…;

el día que se entere, nos mata when he finds out, he'll kill us;

de día en día, día a día from day to day, day by day;

se recuperó de un día a o [m5] para otro he recovered overnight o from one day to the next;

día tras día, Méx [m5] día con día day after day;
Méx Fam
estar en sus días to be having one's period;

este pan está seco, no es del día this bread's stale, it's not fresh;

ha sido la noticia del día it was the news of the day;

en su día: en su día te lo explicaré I'll explain it to you in due course;

en su día les advertí que esa inversión sería imposible I told them at the time that the investment would be impossible;

la pintura abstracta no fue valorada en su día in its day abstract art wasn't highly thought of;

hoy (en) día these days, nowadays;

hoy no es mi día, todo me sale mal it isn't my day today, I seem to be doing everything wrong;

mañana será otro día tomorrow's another day;

tener un buen/mal día to have a good/bad day;

has estado todo el (santo) día protestando you've been complaining all day (long), you've spent the whole day complaining;

no ha parado de llover en todo el (santo) día it hasn't stopped raining all day;

Comp
Fam
un día es un día this is a special occasion;

Comp
Fam
tener mis/tus/sus/etc.[m5] días: ¿qué tal es tu compañero de casa? – tiene sus días what's your flatmate like? – he has his moments;

Comp

vivir al día to live from hand to mouth

Comp
día de Año Nuevo New Year's Day; RP Fam el día del arquero when pigs learn to fly;
día de asueto day off;

día de ayuno holy day;
Ferroc día azul = cheap day for rail travel in Spain;
día de baja por enfermedad sick day;
Esp día de la banderita Red Cross Day; RP día del canillita = day on which newspaper sellers do not work;
día de colegio school day;

día D D-day;

día de descanso [en competición deportiva] rest day;
Com día de deuda pay-by date; Esp Día de Difuntos All Souls' Day;
día de los enamorados (St) Valentine's Day;

día del espectador = day when some cinemas sell tickets at a discount;

día festivo (public) holiday;

día de fiesta holiday;
RP Fam día del golero when pigs learn to fly; Com días de gracia days of grace;
día de guardar holy day;

día hábil working day, US workday;

Día de la Hispanidad = day celebrating Columbus's landing in America [12 October], US ≈ Columbus Day;

día de huelga day of action;

Día de los Inocentes 28 December, ≈ April Fools' Day;

el día del Juicio:

Comp
Fam
hasta el día del Juicio until doomsday;

el Día del Juicio Final Judgement Day;

día laborable working day, US workday;

día lectivo school o teaching day;

día libre day off;

día de la madre Mother's Day;
Am Día de los Muertos All Souls' Day;
día del padre Father's Day;

día de pago payday;
Am día patrio national holiday [commemorating important historical event]; Am Día de la Raza = day commemorating Columbus's landing in America [12 October], US ≈ Columbus Day;
Día de Reyes Epiphany [6 January, day on which children receive presents];
Ferroc día rojo = day on which rail travel is more expensive in Spain;
Día de San Valentín (St) Valentine's Day;
RP día sándwich = day between a public holiday and a weekend, which is also taken as a holiday; Esp Día de los Santos Difuntos All Souls' Day;
día señalado red-letter day;

el Día del Señor Corpus Christi;

Día de Todos los Santos All Saints' Day;

día del trabajador Labour Day;

día de trabajo working day, US workday;

me pagan por día de trabajo I get paid for each day's work;

día útil working day, US workday;

día de vigilia day of abstinence

2. [luz diurna] daytime, day;

los días son más cortos en invierno the days are shorter in winter;

al caer el día at dusk;

al despuntar o [m5] romper el día at daybreak o dawn;

día y noche day and night;

en pleno día, a plena luz del día in broad daylight;

de día in the daytime, during the day;

es de día it's daytime;

despierta, ya es de día wake up, it's morning o it's already light;

hacer algo de día to do sth in the daytime o during the day;

Comp

como el día a la noche: son tan parecidos como el día a la noche they are as like as chalk and cheese

3. [tiempo atmosférico] day;

un día lluvioso a rainy day;

hacía un día caluroso/invernal it was a hot/wintry day;

hace un día estupendo para pasear it's a lovely day for a walk, it's lovely weather for walking;

hace buen/mal día it's a lovely/dismal day;

mañana hará un mal día tomorrow the weather will be bad;

¿qué tal día hace? what's the weather like today?

4.
días [tiempo, vida] days;

desde entonces hasta nuestros días from that time until the present;

en los días de la República in the days of the Republic;

en mis días in my day;

en aquellos días no había televisión in those days we didn't have television;

en aquellos días de felicidad in those happy times;

terminó sus días en la pobreza he ended his days in poverty;

Comp

no pasar los días por o [m5]para alguien: los días no pasan por o [m5] para ella she doesn't look her age;

Comp

tener los días contados: el régimen/tigre de Bengala tiene los días contados the regime's/Bengal tiger's days are numbered

5. [tanto, corriente]
estar al día to be up to date;

está al día de todo lo que ocurre en la región she's up to date with everything that's going on in the region;

estamos al día de todos nuestros pagos we're up to date with all our payments;

poner algo/a alguien al día to update sth/sb;

ya me han puesto al día sobre la situación de la empresa they've already updated me o filled me in on the company's situation;

tenemos que poner este informe al día we have to update this report o bring this report up to date;

se ha puesto al día de los últimos acontecimientos he's caught up with the latest developments

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día

m

1 ( veinticuatro horas) day;

¿qué día es hoy?, ¿a qué día estamos? what day is it today?;

al día siguiente the following o next day, the day after;

el otro día the other day;

un día sí y otro no every other day;

un día sí y otro también every day, day in day out;

día por medio every other day;

día tras día day after day;

de un día a o

para otro from one day to the next;

de día en día from day to day;

todo el santo día all day long;

todos los días every day;

de hoy en ocho días a week from today o from now;

a los pocos días a few days later;

mañana será otro día tomorrow’s another day

2 actualidad

:

al día up to date;

poner al día update, bring up to date

3

:

de día by day, during the day;

ya es de día it’s light already;

se hizo de día dawn o day broke;

día y noche night and day;

¡buenos días! good morning!

4

:

hace mal día tiempo it’s a nasty day

5

:

algún día, un día some day, one day;

un día de estos one of these days;

un día es un día this is a special occasion;

el día menos pensado when you least expect it;

el día de mañana in the future, one day;

el día a día the day-to-day routine;

hoy en día nowadays;

en su día in due course;

tiene sus días contados his/her/its days are numbered;

¡hasta otro día! see you around!;

del día pan fresh

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día nm

1) : day

todos los días: every day

2) : daytime, daylight

de día: by day, in the daytime

en pleno día: in broad daylight

3)

al día : up-to-date

4)

en su día : in due time

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día n

1. (en general) day

¿qué día es hoy? what day is it today?

pasamos todo el día de compras we spent the whole day shopping

2. (horas de luz) daytime / daylight

prefiero conducir de día I prefer driving in the daytime

al día siguiente the following day

buenos días good morning

día y noche night and day

estar al día to be up to date

hacer buen día to be a nice day

hoy en día nowadays

ser de día to be light

todos los días every day

día festivo public holiday

día laborable working day

Spanish-English dictionary > día

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to set election

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