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University of Vigo

English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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In Galician
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- vulture, wacko, wad, wade, wadi, wafer, waffle, waft, wag, wage, wage-earner, wager, waggon, wagonette, waif, wail, wailing, wainscot, waist


wage


- noun
- salario

EN For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.
GL Xogar sistematicamente esixe moitos cartos, e o salario dun axudante de xardineiro escasamente dá para manter unha muller e unha proxenie numerosa.
- Fonte: CHA (36)
- soldo

EN Out of Saladin's first year's wage she put thirty dollars in the savings-bank, sixty out of his second, a hundred out of his third, a hundred and fifty out of his fourth.
GL Do primeiro soldo anual de Saladin, ingresou trinta dólares na caixa de aforros, do segundo sesenta, cen do terceiro e cento cincuenta do cuarto.
- Fonte: LEG (12)


- transitive verb
- combater

EN Along with some 160,000 other ATD Fourth World volunteers and 300 paid staff members in 30 countries, they have been waging a "war on poverty through culture"--at the risk of shocking the very poor whose other needs are much more glaring.
GL Correndo o risco de que esta acción fose incomprendida dadas as prioridades e urxencias do momento. Pero o seu obxectivo era continua-lo seu labor de "combate-la miseria por medio da cultura", xunto con 160.000 voluntarios e 300 membros permanentes da súa asociación, que traballa en trinta países.
- Fonte: C11 (531)
- facer a guerra

EN I decided to wage my war on war not through my work but through my position as a film-maker.
GL Decidín daquela facerlle a guerra á guerra á miña maneira, aproveitando non o meu oficio, senón o meu prestixio de cineasta.
- Fonte: C19 (1159)