Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
instrument of default
Portuguese translation:
instrumento de inadimplência
Added to glossary by
Vera Rodrigues
Feb 5, 2009 11:22
15 yrs ago
English term
instrument of default
English to Portuguese
Other
Finance (general)
Will they regard the printing press as an instrument of default?
Proposed translations
(Portuguese)
| 5 +3 | instrumento de inadimplência |
marco lessa (X)
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| 4 +1 | instrumento/meio de falha |
Floriana Leary
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| 4 | instrumento pré-definido |
Sara Sousa Soares
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Proposed translations
+3
44 mins
Selected
instrumento de inadimplência
default=inadimplência
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-02-05 13:49:09 GMT)
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Default=Failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation, especially failure to meet a financial obligation: in default on a loan.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-02-05 14:18:44 GMT)
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(...) "the government should not be allowed to use the printing press to bail out defaulted private concerns."
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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-02-05 14:24:02 GMT)
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instrument - the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-02-05 14:43:16 GMT)
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The term Fourth Estate refers to the PRESS, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle in the first half of the 19th century.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2009-02-05 15:40:14 GMT) Post-grading
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They still print bank notes, don't they (the gov.)? Or do you pay everything w. your credit card? Nowadays, they 'photoprint' the bank notes, but it is still a 'printing process' when it comes to the money you carry in your purse, the 'hard' bank note. Conversely, Journalism, the Press, the Media would be the right word, don't you think so?
Don't we say in Portuguese 'vão rodar a guitarra'?
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-02-05 13:49:09 GMT)
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Default=Failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation, especially failure to meet a financial obligation: in default on a loan.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-02-05 14:18:44 GMT)
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(...) "the government should not be allowed to use the printing press to bail out defaulted private concerns."
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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-02-05 14:24:02 GMT)
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instrument - the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-02-05 14:43:16 GMT)
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The term Fourth Estate refers to the PRESS, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle in the first half of the 19th century.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2009-02-05 15:40:14 GMT) Post-grading
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They still print bank notes, don't they (the gov.)? Or do you pay everything w. your credit card? Nowadays, they 'photoprint' the bank notes, but it is still a 'printing process' when it comes to the money you carry in your purse, the 'hard' bank note. Conversely, Journalism, the Press, the Media would be the right word, don't you think so?
Don't we say in Portuguese 'vão rodar a guitarra'?
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Marlene Curtis
: Excellent translation!
52 mins
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Well, thanks Mrs Curtis.
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| agree |
rhandler
1 hr
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Thanks. Best.
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| agree |
Artur Jorge Martins
5 hrs
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Thanks. Best.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks a lot."
14 mins
Sara Sousa Soares
Native in Portuguese
Works in field
Also a copywriter
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese
Related KudoZ points
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12
instrumento pré-definido
Diria assim...
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
: se fosse informática, mas parece que não é
2 days 2 hrs
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+1
30 mins
Floriana Leary
United States
United States
Native in English
&
Portuguese
Specializes in field
United States
efficient
Native in: English 
, Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
Related KudoZ points
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8
instrumento/meio de falha
my suggestion:
Será que consideram a imprensa o instumento/meio de falha?
Será que consideram a imprensa o instumento/meio de falha?
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
marco lessa (X)
: Inst.:that by which smthg. is accomplished or some end achieved: agency, agent, instrumentality, instrumentation, intermediary, mean3 (used in plural), mechanism, medium, organ. Floriana, eu tb. ñ gostei de 'instrumento'. "Agente" seria melhor.
2 hrs
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I took this sentence as talking about printing press (divulgação de imprensa), I could be wrong, but the way the sentence is formed and the subject of finance, why would they be talking about the machine?
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Discussion
Today photocomposition has been adopted in lithography, gravure, and letterpress printing, and its use, together with other electronic techniques, has revolutionized the PRINTING industry (see optical sensing). In recent years some newspapers have started to use pagination systems, in which newspapers are electronically composed by computer, output to a negative, and a plate is made of the negative.