Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

fronteira seca

English translation:

dry border

Added to glossary by rhandler
May 21, 2007 16:43
16 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

fronteira seca

Portuguese to English Marketing IT (Information Technology)
...falta de fiscalização ao longo da fronteira seca.

I could hazard a guess but I don't know what the technical term for this phrase is.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 dry border
Change log

May 26, 2007 23:58: rhandler changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/134209">R. Alex Jenkins's</a> old entry - "fronteira seca"" to ""dry border""

Discussion

Muriel Vasconcellos May 21, 2007:
If your text is referring to a physical border, then I suppose the literal translation is correct. I'm baffled that you posted it as a marketing/IT term.

Proposed translations

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dry border

I think you may use this expression. Some examples:

[PDF] Local Level Journalism and Democracy Indicators in Latin America
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The dry border between Paraguay and Brazil is a Red Area where various journalists have been murdered in recent years. SIP has many times ...
www.cadal.org/english/pdf/Local_Level_First_Semester_2006.p...
[PDF] Relatorio Pablo prova2
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case, there is a “dry border” between Pedro Juan and Ponta Porã. An avenue that. actually marks the borderline divides both cities. ...
www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/portal/spotlight/country/amer...

[PDF] The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal's ...
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common on the stretches of dry border between Cooch-Behar and. Rangpur, between Malda and Rajshahi, and between Nadia and. Kushtia. In one week in May 1950, ...
http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFullte...

Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers - Google Books Result
by Thomas M. Wilson, Hastings Donnan - 1998 - 313 pages
Even when borders remain relatively static, as has been the case with the ‘dry' border between Spain and France (see Douglass, this volume), the borderlands ...
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=052158745X...


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agree cristina estanislau
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agree Francis Kastalski : :)
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agree Denise Miranda
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