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praças

English translation: privates/soldiers

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Portuguese term or phrase:praças
English translation:privates/soldiers
Entered by: Mary Palmer

20:37 Jul 19, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: praças
Não entendi bem o significado de "praças" nesse contexto.


Obrigada pela ajuda!


Nas cidades, sobretudo nas maiores, a tradição de protesto vinha de longe e manifestava-se o mais das vezes nos quebra-quebras. Ela se intensificou a partir da proclamação da República, atingindo o ponto máximo no protesto contra a vacinação obrigatória em 1904. A novidade republicana ficou por conta do movimento operário em fase de organização. Foram inúmeras as greves que atingiram a capital da República e São Paulo, além de outras capitais. Seu auge verificou-se durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial e nos anos que a seguiram. Calculou-se que 236 greves foram feitas na capital e no estado de São Paulo entre 1917 e 1920, envolvendo cerca de 300 mil operários. Em torno de 100 mil operários participaram da greve geral de 1917 no Rio de Janeiro. Outra novidade republicana foi a participação política dos militares, jovens oficiais e praças.
Mary Palmer
United States
Local time: 19:21
privates/soldiers
Explanation:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/private (noun, 17)
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Grading comment
Thanks Luciano!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7privates/soldiers
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4 +3soldiers
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
5 +1enlisted men
airmailrpl
4 +1people enlisted in the army
Silvia Aquino
4soldiers . .
David Drysdale (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
"enlisted men"
Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães

Discussion entries: 6





  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
soldiers


Explanation:
http://pt.oldict.com/praça/408/



Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 00:21
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti: also commonly known as "pracinhas" in Brazil
4 mins
  -> Obrigado
agree  imatahan
34 mins
  -> Obrigado
agree  Carlos Quandt: "soldiers" is OK in the context
2 hrs
  -> Obrigado
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
privates/soldiers


Explanation:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/private (noun, 17)

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 75
Grading comment
Thanks Luciano!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jorge Rodrigues
6 mins
agree  Marlene Curtis: Privates
7 mins
agree  Paulo Horsky
11 mins
agree  Verginia Ophof
21 mins
agree  Ricardo Horta: Concordo, mas eu colocaria "Privates"
22 mins
agree  Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães: "Privates".
30 mins
agree  Isabelle17
2 hrs
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
soldiers . .


Explanation:
Suggestion;

soldiers . .

Entre outras definicoes, encontrei o significado . . "soldado" Acho que esta certo . . tambem encontrei "men enlisted during World War II"

David Drysdale (X)
United States
Local time: 16:21
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
people enlisted in the army


Explanation:
sugestão

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Note added at 6 mins (2010-07-19 20:44:00 GMT)
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30 jan. 2007 ... Praça é o soldado raso, e o recruta é o praça verde, recém. No exército, há os verbos "sentar praça" e "enganjar" que se usam para o ...
br.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid... - Em cache - Similares

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Note added at 10 mins (2010-07-19 20:47:03 GMT)
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O correspondente nos EUA seria basic private.

Silvia Aquino
Brazil
Local time: 19:21
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Ricardo Horta: "people enlisted in the Army" engloba toda a gente. Um Sargento ou Oficial é "enlisted in the army", mas não é um Praça.
14 mins
agree  Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães: "Enlisted men". Pode englobar os suboficiais, sim, mas "enlisted" jamais incluirá os oficiais!
32 mins
  -> Obrigada, fvasconcellos! Mas acabei mudando a resposta para basic private, e parece que ninguém viu!
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
enlisted men


Explanation:
praças => "enlisted men"

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 19:21
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Douglas Bissell
9 hrs
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Reference comments


38 mins
Reference: "enlisted men"

Reference information:
enlisted man
n.
A male member of the armed forces who ranks below a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)

enlisted man
n
(Military) a serviceman who holds neither a commission nor a warrant and is not under training for officer rank as a cadet or midshipman
(Collins English Dictionary)

Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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