Pagar el total de algo en una sola cuota, dar el total de un pago en una sola cuota.

To pay in one lump sum, to give one lump sum.

He paid me back in one lump sum.

"She was given a lump sum when she retired."
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Online.

In News:

"However, if your wages have been garnished in the first place, it probably meant that you could not afford to pay off your taxes in one lump sum.

JD Supra (Press release)

"JobsOhio, a private corporation created by Gov. John R. Kasich to streamline efficiencies in the state's efforts to attract new business, will pay a lump sum of $1.4 billion and a portion of future profits for the rights to sell Ohio's wholesale liquor franchises for 25 years, and then use the money it makes to fund economic-development initiatives across the state. "
Journal Daily.

In Cartoons:


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Hi and Louis (King Features)




Verb Tenses Exercises.

Contribuir para comprar algo entre varias personas.

To chip in (AmE) (informal)

To have a whip-round (BrE) (informal).

Let's chip in and buy a crate of beer.

In Dictionaries:

"They each chipped in $50 to take their parents out to dinner."
Cambridge Dictionary Online.

"We all chipped in and bought flowers for the secretaries."
Merriam Webster

"If everyone chips in, we'll be able to buy her a nice leaving present."
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

In News:

"They all chipped in for food and kept it quiet for the most part, Mark said."

The Star Phoenix.

"It is always moving to see football rally around one of its own, like the family having a whip round to buy Charlie a chocolate bar for his birthday."

The Telagraph UK.

"AT A meeting of the national executive committee of the SNP at the end of last week, party figures joked about whether to have a whip-round to help pay for a plane ticket for David Cameron to Scotland, in the hope of getting him up here soon."

Scotland on Sunday.

"“I have a little goatee beard and everybody had a whip-round in the pub to get me to shave it off as well,” said Mr Willingham, who works as a tarmacer."
Suffolk Free Press.

Venezuela: hacer una vaca.

España: hacer un escote.

Foto: Boston.com

Ser velado en capilla ardiente (persona de importancia nacional).

To lie in state in candlelit chapel.

The candlelit chapel where the king’s body lay in state.
Oxford Dictionary Online.


Foto: Telesur.

Declinar una Candidatura.

To bow out (of race).

Do you think other candidates will bow out?

In News:

"Opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez bowed out of Venezuela’s presidential race on Tuesday, saying he will support front-runner Henrique Capriles Radonski."

The Washington Post.

"A prominent opponent of President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that he won't bow out of the presidential race despite a contradictorySupreme Court ruling that upheld a ban on him holding office yet also said he could be a candidate."

The Houston Chronicle.

Foto: Globovisión.

A Simple Vista.

To the naked eye, with the naked eye.

The police found traces of blood on his jacket that were invisible to the naked eye.
Cambridge Dictionary Online.

In News:

"They are the spider-like creatures eager for your warmth and a bed for the night. They remain invisible to the naked eye. And millions of them may already have taken up residence in your home."
The Independent UK.

"To the naked eye, it wasn't even clear that the ball had hit the pad, as it ran off the bat out towards cover."
ESPN

"Earthlings will not be able to see with the naked eye the large asteroid flying close by our planet tonight, scientists said."
The Boston Globe.

Voltearse una embarcación.

To capsize.

"When the boat capsized we were trapped underneath it."
Cambridge Dictionary Online.

In News:

" The captain of the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany made an unauthorized, unapproved deviation from the ship's programmed course, a "human error" that led to the grounding of the vessel, the chief executive of ship's Italian owner said on Monday."

News 24.

"A retired Minnesota man and his wife are among more than a dozen people unaccounted for after a cruise ship hit a reef and capsized off the west coast of Italy, their family said in a statement Monday."

Boston.com

Encallar (una embarcación)

To run aground.

"If a ship or boat runs aground, it hits the coast, sometimes becoming stuck there."
Cambridge Dictionary Online.

In News:

"A cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy killing at least six people."
News 24.

"The captain of a cruise ship that ran aground off Italy made an "unapproved, unauthorised" deviation in course, the liner's owners say." BBC News.

Foto: 13 News.

Presentar Memoria y Cuenta.

To deliver/submit Report and Accounts.

To give information of the state of the union (USA).
To give information of the state of the nation (USA).
To offer annual state of the union report (USA)

Today President Chávez will deliver 2011 Report and Accounts.

On Websites:

"For the Global Campaign for Education, the country shows some of the best indicators in Latin America and, according to the 2008 Report and Accounts, delivered by the President to the National Assembly on 9 January 2009, over 7.5 million Venezuelans were registered in the various levels of the school cycle."

Social Watch.

“Significant Aspects of the 2008 Report and Accounts Submitted by President Hugo Chávez to the National Assembly on 13 January 2009”.

Social Watch.

"State of the Union Messages to the Congress are mandated by Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution which states, "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;"

The American Presidency Project.

"The socialist leader said while offering his annual state of the union report to Venezuela’s National Assembly."
Latin American herald Tribune.

More:

"In his State of the Union speech before Venezuela's National Assembly on Friday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the closing of his country's Miami consulate in retaliation, he said, for the Jan. 6 expulsion of Consul Livia Acosta, whom the U.S. declared persona non grata for allegedly discussing cyber attacks on U.S. government agencies."

Sacramento Bee.

"In a marathon state of the nation speech to parliament, Chavez, 57, scoffed at that and called on opposition leaders to pledge publicly to respect the outcome."

Yahoo News.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/13/4186444/chavez-orders-closing-of-miami.html#storylink=cpy