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Professions: Foreman/Encarregado
English/Inglês
Foreman
Portuguese/Português
Encarregado
Explanation/Explicação
This month we will be talking about professions. Some are quite easy to translate such as doctor, nurse even translator, but others might be harder and lead to errors.
This weeks’s profession is foreman. In the construction industry for example, this is the person who supervises the workmen in a site, in Portuguese is translated as "encarregado". It is also used in the law field and in that case refers to the principal juror who presides at the deliberation of a jury, which in Portuguese is "presidente dos jurados".
Kangas
Foreman
Portuguese/Português
Encarregado
Explanation/Explicação
This month we will be talking about professions. Some are quite easy to translate such as doctor, nurse even translator, but others might be harder and lead to errors.
This weeks’s profession is foreman. In the construction industry for example, this is the person who supervises the workmen in a site, in Portuguese is translated as "encarregado". It is also used in the law field and in that case refers to the principal juror who presides at the deliberation of a jury, which in Portuguese is "presidente dos jurados".
Collins Dictionary Online wrote:
Foreman
noun
(plural) -men
1. a person, often experienced, who supervises other workmen Gender-neutral form: supervisor
2. (law) the principal juror, who presides at the deliberations of a jury Female equivalent: forewoman
Dicionário Priberam Online wrote:
Encarregado
substantivo masculino
3. Pessoa que dirige um trabalho ou uma exploração na ausência do patrão, do empreiteiro, do mestre, etc.
4. O mesmo que encarregado de educação.
encarregado de educação
• Indivíduo que acompanha o aproveitamento escolar de um menor de idade (ex.: a justificação da falta está assinada pelo encarregado de educação).
encarregado de negócios
• [Política] Membro do corpo diplomático que, na ausência de um embaixador, representa o seu país junto de uma nação estrangeira.
Kangas
Source: Collins Dictionary Online,
Dicionário Piberam Online, IATE
Dicionário Piberam Online, IATE
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