Flats in spanish

Pisos

pronunciation: pisoʊs part of speech: noun
In gestures

flat1 = piso. 

Example: This multi-functional community complex incorporates meeting rooms, sports hall, squash courts, old people's day centre, toy library, YMCA flats, a church centre and arts and crafts workshops.

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» block of flats = bloque de pisos.

Example: The area is populated by old people, immigrants and single parent families housed in blocks of flats.

» block of high-rise flats = bloque de pisos.

Example: In Britain, this meant the dislocation and scattering of what were close-knit communities either to sprawling suburban council estates, often grossly lacking in amenities, or to blocks of high-rise flats.

» council flat = vivienda social. [Piso]

Example: The south London 'white trash' it portrays are as marginalized in their council flats as any poor sharecroppers, but the novel neither condescends toward them nor sentimentalizes their plight.

» flat-hunting = búsqueda de piso, búsqueda de alojamiento.

Example: When looking for a flat in London, a few tips for flat hunting can come in handy.

» flatmate = compañero de piso.

Example: 'Shit Happens' in the story of two flatmates: Halifax, a ex-journalist with a dark past and long lost ex-wife, and Shakra, a college-drop out bent on Halifax's destruction = "A veces las cosas salen mal" es la historia de dos compañeros de piso: Halifax, un ex-periodista con un pasado oscuro y con una exesposa que no ve desde hace mucho, y Shakra, un compañero de universidad obcecado en la destrucción de Halifax .

» furnished flat = piso amueblado.

Example: The University has over 68 self-contained furnished flats and houses for students with dependants.

» high-rise flat = piso.

Example: Most of the larger cities have set up wholesale slum clearance programmes and rehousing in council housing and high-rise flats.

» move + flats = cambiar de piso, mudarse de piso.

Example: She's moving flats quite soon but staying in the same area.

» poky little flat = pisucho, apartamentucho, cuchitril.

Example: For five years he had been stuck in a poky little flat, dreaming of a better place.

flat2 = línea horizontal. 

Example: The graph of the growth of the subject shows an initial flat, a steep climb, a small flat, and a rapid decline.

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» flat organisation = organización horizontal. [Organización en la que existe principalmente una persona responsable de todas sus operaciones y ante la que tiene que responder todos las unidades que existan dentro de la organización]

Example: When one manager has many organizational units reporting to him or her, a flat or horizontal organization is created and an extensive span of control obtains.

» lay + flat = colocar en sentido horizontal, tumbar.

Example: Some libraries have horizontal map chests where maps are laid flat in drawers.
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