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Spanish term or phrase:
\"La posición de los empleados públicos nunca ha sido holgada\".
English translation:
Civil servant salaries have never been generous.
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Feb 15, 2018 19:05
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Spanish term
Chile
\"La posición de los empleados públicos nunca ha sido holgada\".
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
History
political sociology
I have difficulties with HOLGAR. The RAE (see below) provides several meanings.
This quote appears in an academic article about the position of civil servants in 1920 Chile. They started to take a more combative stance and insist on better salaries, and newspaper article comments that their stance is totally understandable, since "la posicion de los empleados públicos nunca ha sido holgada".
Thanks in advance!
holgar [Conjugar el verbo holgar]
Del lat. tardío follicāre 'soplar, respirar'.
Conjug. actual c. contar.
U. solo en infinit., en ger., en part. y en 3.ª pers. en acep. 5.
1. intr. Estar ocioso, no trabajar.
2. intr. Descansar, tomar aliento después de una fatiga.
3. intr. alegrarse (‖ recibir o sentir alegría). U. m. c. prnl.
4. intr. Dicho de una cosa inanimada: Estar sin ejercicio o sin uso.
5. intr. Sobrar, ser inútil. Huelgan los comentarios.
6. intr. desus. Yacer, estar, parar.
7. prnl. Divertirse, entretenerse con gusto.
This quote appears in an academic article about the position of civil servants in 1920 Chile. They started to take a more combative stance and insist on better salaries, and newspaper article comments that their stance is totally understandable, since "la posicion de los empleados públicos nunca ha sido holgada".
Thanks in advance!
holgar [Conjugar el verbo holgar]
Del lat. tardío follicāre 'soplar, respirar'.
Conjug. actual c. contar.
U. solo en infinit., en ger., en part. y en 3.ª pers. en acep. 5.
1. intr. Estar ocioso, no trabajar.
2. intr. Descansar, tomar aliento después de una fatiga.
3. intr. alegrarse (‖ recibir o sentir alegría). U. m. c. prnl.
4. intr. Dicho de una cosa inanimada: Estar sin ejercicio o sin uso.
5. intr. Sobrar, ser inútil. Huelgan los comentarios.
6. intr. desus. Yacer, estar, parar.
7. prnl. Divertirse, entretenerse con gusto.
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Civil servant salaries have never been generous.
Just a question of expression in English, I feel we would be more straightforward.
We say civil servants for public employees in Australia.
We say civil servants for public employees in Australia.
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Iñaki Vega Bayo
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The situatio of public servants has never been comfortable
No se porque no aparece en esas definiciones pero en ese contexto holgada se refiere a cómoda.
https://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/search?source=auto&q...
Acá puedes ver que efectivamente se puede utilizar en ese sentido.
https://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/search?source=auto&q...
Acá puedes ver que efectivamente se puede utilizar en ese sentido.
Note from asker:
| thanks, I did check Linguee, but got distracted also by the variety of meanings - ample, baggy, etc. So thank you for clarifying. |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
philgoddard
: I never knew Linguee had a proper dictionary, as opposed to a corpus of often wrong translations.
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| agree |
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
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Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
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the position of civil servants has never been a comfortable one
Meaning that those civil servants find it difficult to exist and support their families on their current salaries.
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=holg...
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Their economic position in the general government scheme or hierarchy.
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