Recorte in english
pronunciation: kʌtaʊt part of speech: noun
recortar = cut away ; cut ; trim ; pare down ; clip ; make + inroads ; cutting out ; slim down ; cut out ; trim off ; shave off ; prune ; slash ; downscale ; downmarket ; cut back (on) ; dock.
Example: Punching equipment is not always as accurate as it might be; holes may not be well centred upon their coding position, and holes are sometimes not completely cut away.Example: 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.Example: The edges of the leaves may have been trimmed smooth by the binder, or left rough (uncut).Example: He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.Example: Some libraries frequently subscribe to specific newspapers in duplicate in order to clip articles and illustrations of interest for particular subject files.Example: In all this flurry of activity in the early seventies public libraries were not only ignored but showed little interest, in spite of the fact that inroads were being made into their traditional library functions.Example: These include: matching characters with nursery rhymes; quizzes; colouring and cutting out; treasure hunts; fancy dress parades; making words of jumbled letters; and a pets' parade.Example: The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.Example: The project focused on newspaper clipping archives and libraries which currently cut out articles.Example: If you repeatedly deadhead - trim off the spent flowers - the plant goes into overdrive.Example: You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.Example: More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.Example: Finally, a few copies of an edition seem generally to have slipped through with their cancellanda uncancelled, so that examples of the original settings may sometimes be found (occasionally slashed by the warehouse keeper's shears, deliberate defacement which escaped notice).Example: Prince Albert properties offer excellent value for money for buyers wanting to downscale to a quieter, less costly country lifestyle.Example: In my opinion, a golden seam of literary and musical heritage stretching back centuries is being systematically downmarketed.Example: But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.Example: Whoever told you about the fine has got their facts wrong, there is no such thing as a fine for docking your dog's tail.more:
» dado a recortar presupuestos = budget-cutting .
Example: With continued acquiescence to budget-cutting administrators, tomorrow's libraries may be viewed as mere custodians and perhaps even superfluous to their institutions.» máquina de recortar con cuchilla recta = straight-knife trimming machine .
Example: In 1895 a good London bindery would have the following machines: hand-fed folding machines, sewing machines, nipping machines (for pressing the sewn books before casing-in), cutting machines, rounding machines, backing machines, straight-knife trimming machines (guillotines), rotary board-cutting machines, power blocking presses, and hydraulic standing presses.» recortar el dinero = slash + the money .
Example: This year the Government has slashed the money we receive by more than 14%, and we fear similar cuts in years to come.» recortar el presupuesto = cut back + budget ; cut + budget ; squeeze + budget ; tighten + the purse strings ; slash + the budget ; cut + monies from + the budget .
Example: Expansion ground to a halt, however, before an adequate level of services was achieved in 1986, when the budget was cut back. Example: He then said: 'Look, pal, your budget will probably be one of the first to be cut in these budget-slashing times'. Example: Moreover, budgets will be squeezed even further by the rapidly rising costs of materials. Example: Labor spent the money when it was needed and is taking steps to tighten the purse strings to begin honouring the debt it has accrued. Example: Can the government reduce poverty while also slashing the budget?. Example: This also allows funding agencies to place programs into perspective and to evaluate the effects of cutting monies from or adding monies to the budget.» recortar el tiempo = slash + the time ; cut down + time .
Example: In four years Ford slashed the time required to build a car from more than 12 hours to just 93 minutes. Example: Priority is awarded to projects aiming to cut down the lead time for exploiting newly discovered fields.» recortar gastos = cut + expenditure ; cut + expenses .
Example: Consequently, it came as no surprise when the new Conservative Government was elected in 1979 on a ticket to cut public expenditure and stop feather-bedding consumers. Example: In plain English, it means we don't have enough students and expenses must be cut.» recortar la financiación = cut + funding .
Example: While the government plans to spend 2% of Gross National Product by year 2000 on research, funding for research libraries is cut.» recortar una curva = cut + a corner .
Example: When driving, cutting the corner on a left turn often results in damage to another vehicle or even to a pedestrian.» recortar una esquina = cut out + a corner .
Example: Have the landscapers come in, cut out a corner of the driveway, put down new soil and plant more grass.recorte = axe [ax, -USA] ; cut ; cutback ; cutting ; cutting ; squeeze ; snip ; clipping.
Example: Following in the footsteps of Beeching's axe which put paid to the branch-line era of the railways, many rural bus routes have now been threatened by rising petrol costs.Example: Cuts in the 1988 budget have resulted in cuts in opening hours, staff hours, and book budget.Example: The vast majority of inquiries received by the van had nothing to do with consumer problems and, with the cutbacks of the 1980s, the service was withdrawn.Example: This article concludes that cutting the number of words could lead to undesirable impoverishing of data bases rendering them useless as an independent source of information.Example: Guard book or scrapbook type arrangement, with possibly a loose-leaf format, is suitable for organising and keeping cuttings, letters and other small items.Example: Even library services to rural areas have been affected by the squeeze on public sector spending.Example: With a snip here and a snip there, it's easy to turn a plant into a living sculpture.Example: The interlacing of twigs into wickerwork is in all probability contemporary with first clipping of flint into arrow-heads.more:
» álbum de recortes = guard book ; scrapbook [Libro con hojas en blanco donde pegar y de este modo coleccionar diferentes tipos de recortes] .
Example: Guard book or scrapbook type arrangement, with possibly a loose-leaf format, is suitable for organising and keeping cuttings, letters and other small items. Example: Guard book or scrapbook type arrangement, with possibly a loose-leaf format, is suitable for organising and keeping cuttings, letters and other small items.» archivo de recortes = cuttings file [clipping file, -USA] .
Example: A cuttings file is a file where items, usually ephemeral and topical in nature, taken from various sources, including newspapers and magazines, are kept for information and reference.» archivo de recortes de prensa = newspaper clippings archives .
Example: The project focused on newspaper clipping archives and libraries which currently cut out articles.» colección de recortes = clipping file [cuttings file, -UK] ; cuttings file [clipping file, -USA] .
Example: Established in 1941, the collection includes American and European studbooks, periodical files dating back to the 1800s, a clipping file and fiction and poetry on horses. Example: A cuttings file is a file where items, usually ephemeral and topical in nature, taken from various sources, including newspapers and magazines, are kept for information and reference.» colección de recortes de periódicos = clippings collection .
Example: It describes the technology, the equipment and the procedures necessary for converting a clippings collection to optical storage.» experimentar recortes = suffer + cuts .
Example: Over the past 6 years 37% of industrial libraries have suffered cuts in operating budgets and that a further 36% have only had increases sufficient to combat inflation.» imponer recortes = impose + cuts .
Example: As well as cuts imposed by the Government, libraries were faced with inflation in the price of books and periodicals, and a falling rate of exchange between the pound and the dollar.» padecer recortes = experience + cutbacks .
Example: In the present climate of economic retrenchment some media centers may be experiencing staff cutbacks.» período de recortes presupuestarios = budget-slashing times .
Example: He then said: 'Look, pal, your budget will probably be one of the first to be cut in these budget-slashing times'.» recorte de los tipos de interés = rate cut ; interest-rate cut .
Example: Hopes for rate cuts have been dashed by soaring inflation. Example: Savers will be hit hard by yesterday's interest-rate cut as they see returns on nest eggs shrinking.» recorte del presupuesto = budgetary constraint ; funding cut .
Example: Additional measures are also critical at a time when many public libraries are facing budgetary constraints. Example: Funding cuts have made re-training difficult in some instances.» recorte de noticias = news cutting ; news clipping .
Example: To make things easier, from here you can access the legal news cuttings related to our activity = Para facilitar las cosas, desde aquí puedes acceder a los recortes de noticias legales relacionados con nuestra actividad. Example: Sometimes, he or she also monitors the news clipping office and handles communications with out-of-town media = A veces, esa persona controla también la oficina de recortes de noticias y gestiona las relaciones con los medios de comunicaciones fuera de la ciudad.» recorte de periódico = clipping ; newspaper clipping ; newspaper cutting .
Example: Over the years, people had been making their own little collections of books, pamphlets, and clippings. Example: Many libraries keep vertical files of pamphlets and newspapers clippings but such files are time-consuming to maintain, too often fragmentary, and each file serves only one institution. Example: Files of small documents such as leaflets and newspaper cuttings are a means of storing full text.» recorte de personal = downsizing ; staffing cut .
Example: Downsizing has increased productivity and decreased throughput time for materials in technical services. Example: This article describes how the library is coping with cataloguing given the speed with which it has grown, teething troubles with new software, backlogs, and funding and staffing cuts.» recorte de plantilla = downsizing .
Example: Downsizing has increased productivity and decreased throughput time for materials in technical services.» recorte de pliego = offcut [En pliegos de cierto tamaño, parte del pliego que se cort, dobla e intercala dentro de una signatura plegada] .
Example: Although it seldom happened in practice, it was possible to shuffle copies of the main sections and offcuts of 12 sheets or half-sheets and thus produce aberrant watermark patterns.» recorte de prensa = press cutting [press-cutting] ; press clipping [Artículo o trozo recortado de un periódico que recoge información pertinente a un tema y que se utiliza como documento] ; newspaper clipping .
Example: Much of the refrence material is in the form of unpublished reports, trade literature, press cuttings and handouts. Example: This article describes the history and holdings of the University of Cape Town's Department of Environmental and Geographical Science which include maps, aerial photographs, aeronautical charts, atlas pages and press clippings. Example: Many libraries keep vertical files of pamphlets and newspapers clippings but such files are time-consuming to maintain, too often fragmentary, and each file serves only one institution.» recorte de presupuesto = cut in budget .
Example: This article discusses the problable effects of cuts in federal budgets on ministerial libraries.» recorte drástico = draconian cut .
Example: The left, meanwhile, is in full cry over the commission's allegedly draconian cuts in Social Security benefits.» recorte económico = axe [ax, -USA] .
Example: Following in the footsteps of Beeching's axe which put paid to the branch-line era of the railways, many rural bus routes have now been threatened by rising petrol costs.» recorte en educación = education cut .
Example: The majority of states opted at least in part for education cuts.» recorte en el presupuesto = funding cut .
Example: Funding cuts have made re-training difficult in some instances.» recorte presupuestario = budget cut ; budget crunch ; budget squeeze ; budgetary cut ; funding cut .
Example: There are many good reasons for avoiding too heavy a reliance on one national library and the recent budget cuts are a warning. Example: Public libraries, especially in New York City, are feeling severe budget crunches, because we really haven't been relevant to people and, therefore, nobody uses us = Las bibliotecas públicas, especialmente de la ciudad de Nueva York, están sufriendo graves recortes presupuestarios debido a que la gente no nos ha encontrado necesarios y, por lo tanto, nadie nos utiliza. Example: We couldn't afford to do everything we used to, so standardized entry would be one of the casualties in any budget squeeze. Example: Budgetary cuts are affecting the provision of special collections in tertiary education. Example: Funding cuts have made re-training difficult in some instances.» recortes = contraction ; under the knife .
Example: The euphoric years of affluence and expansion in the decades immediately following the midpoint of the century have given way to traumatic years of austerity and contraction. Example: The article 'Under the Knife' recommends drastic cuts in library buildings' construction funds = El artículo "Los recortes" recomienda restricciones drásticas en los fondos destinados a la construcción de bibliotecas.» recorte salarial = salary cut ; pay cut .
Example: With Mitford's higher cost of living, Hernandez realized that he would have to think carefully about the ramifications of taking a salary cut, temporary though it might be. Example: Many companies are using pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs.» recortes de césped = grass shavings ; grass cuttings .
Example: He was shirtless and covered with grass shavings, because the bag on the mower was ripped and held together with clothes pins. Example: Use grass cuttings as a mulch around shrubs and trees in the garden to help them conserve water and to stop weeds growing.» recortes de la poda = yard trimmings ; garden trimmings .
Example: Yard trimmings are collected on the same day as your recycling is collected. Example: Grass, trees and shrubs tends to grow a lot during the spring and summer months so you end up with a lot of garden trimmings every now and then.» recortes económicos = economic retrenchment ; retrenchment ; financial cutbacks ; economic cuts ; spending cuts ; expenditure cuts ; fiscal retrenchment .
Example: In the present climate of economic retrenchment some media centers may be experiencing staff cutbacks. Example: Retrenchment can be viewed as a challenge, an opportunity to make services cost-effective and increase overall efficiency. Example: In the 1970s government financial cutbacks prevented expansion of the network and improvements in staffing and services. Example: Despite economic cuts, the impression American library workers give is one of optimism and desire to try untraditional ways of solving economic problems. Example: This article examines the effect on libraries in the UK of the enforcement of local government spending cuts. Example: Recent public expenditure cuts have meant that many academic libraries are having to take an even more rigorous approach to their journals collection. Example: Unfortunately, with budgets stretched to the bone, the focus is not on investments to boost the economy, but on fiscal retrenchment.» recortes presupuestarios = budget cutting .
Example: During the Reagan Administration, federal information policies and climate were driven by budget cutting, eliminiation of publications, and a dramatic increase in privatisation of federal information.» recortes presupuestarios + hacerse sentir = budget cut + bite .
Example: As provision of local authority adult education classes drops and budget cuts bite deep everywhere, it would benefit both organisations to cooperate and maintain a 'high profile'.