https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-portuguese/games-video-games-gaming-casino/6860365-win-by-default.html&phpv_redirected=1

win by default

Portuguese translation: ganhou por W.O.

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
English term or phrase:win by default
Portuguese translation:ganhou por W.O.
Entered by: Mario Freitas

15:24 Aug 19, 2020
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino
English term or phrase: win by default
Congratulations! {agency} has won the Space Race by default!n(All other agencies have failed)

Gostaria de saber qual é o melhor termo na opinião de vocês. Referências, por favor. Desde já, obrigado.
Augusto Rochadel
Brazil
Local time: 04:25
ganhou por W.O.
Explanation:
É um termo comum nos esportes, mas também é utilizado metaforicamente em qualquer outra área.
Selected response from:

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 04:25
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5ganhou por W.O.
Mario Freitas
5ganhou à/por revelia
Neyf Almeida
4venceu por desclassificação (dos demais competidores)
Hari Cavalcante
4ganhou como competidor único
Clauwolf
4venceu por falta de concorrentes
Matheus Chaud
4teve uma vitória isolada / incontestável
MARCOS BAZILIO
3ganhar por defeito
Ana Vozone


  

Answers


1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
ganhou à/por revelia


Explanation:
Sugestão

Neyf Almeida
Brazil
Local time: 04:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
ganhou por W.O.


Explanation:
É um termo comum nos esportes, mas também é utilizado metaforicamente em qualquer outra área.

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 04:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 70

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Julio Cinquina
3 mins
  -> Obrigado, Julio!

agree  Clauwolf: "walkover", yes
6 mins
  -> Obrigado, Claus!

agree  Felipe Tomasi
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Felipe!

agree  Miriam Goldschmidt
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Miriam!

agree  Tereza Rae
2 days 21 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Tereza!
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
venceu por desclassificação (dos demais competidores)


Explanation:
Sug

Hari Cavalcante
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 63
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ganhou como competidor único


Explanation:
:) Do Urban dic:

By default

Say you were in a contest and all the other contestants were either caught cheating or forfeited or did not show up. Your the only contestant left. So you won by default.

Clauwolf
Local time: 04:25
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 63
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
venceu por falta de concorrentes


Explanation:

Sugestão baseada no excelente dicionário do Ivo Korytowski
(English-Portuguese Translator's Dictionary: Dicionário Inglês-Português para Tradutores):

by default = na falta de outra opção

Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Local time: 04:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 283
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
teve uma vitória isolada / incontestável


Explanation:
Augusto, penso que em seu contexto seria apropriado algo mais sóbrio do que jargões. o próprio contexto explica a falha dos demais...

MARCOS BAZILIO
Brazil
Local time: 04:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
ganhar por defeito


Explanation:
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk00PSvx2JrQlO-dhy8L4...

Example sentence(s):
  • Mas o primeiro-ministro Abe "ganhou por defeito", diz E. Keith Henry, presidente da consultora Asia Strategy, de Tóquio.
  • Mas, com o que já se viu, esta é uma corrida que Obama vai tentar ganhar por defeito e já não por excesso como aconteceu há quatro anos.
Ana Vozone
Local time: 08:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 80
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.


See also: