do away with

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do away with

verbo transitivo con partícula

1. acabar con (abolish, kill)

do away with [du]

abolir, suprimir (abolish/privilege, tax); eliminar, acabar con (need); llevar, borrar.(Coloq.) Eliminar, liquidar (kill).

do away with

verb:intransitive:plus_preposition

1 (get rid of) [+controls] suprimir; eliminar; [+nuclear weapons] eliminar; acabar con; [+injustice, exploitation, system] acabar con; [+capital punishment] abolir

it does away with the need for a middleman con esto ya no hace falta el intermediario; con esto uno se ahorra el intermediario

the long-range goal must be to do away with nuclear weapons altogether they decided to do away with import controls his decree did away with the traditional divisions between provinces Mr Pritchard believes that Labour will not do away with opted # out schools they are attempting to do away with the welfare state they want to see the communist system done away with to do away with the old order South Africa makes some progress towards doing away with apartheid we want to do away with these outmoded customs new technology could do away with the office altogether

2 (kill) matar; liquidar (informal)

to do away with o.s. matarse; suicidarse

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