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public access television (n) (US) televisión abierta al público Public Accounts Committee the report received the support of MPs of all parties on the Public Accounts Committee these questions were put by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee to the Inland Revenue earlier this year
En Estados Unidos, el término Public Access Television hace referencia a una serie de cadenas no comerciales de televisión por cable que emiten programas de ámbito local o programas dedicados a organizaciones humanitarias sin ánimo de lucro. Entre sus emisiones se incluyen charlas sobre actividades escolares, programas sobre aficiones diversas e incluso discursos de organizaciones racistas. Estas emisiones de acceso público se crearon para dar cabida a temas de interés local e impedir que los canales por cable estuvieran dominados por unos cuantos privilegiados. En virtud de la Ley de Emisiones por Cable, el Cable Act de 1984, cualquier población en que haya algún canal por cable puede obligar a los propietarios de dicho canal a que instalen una cadena adicional de acceso público y provean el equipo, el estudio, los medios técnicos y el personal necesarios para la emisión.
public address system (n) (sistema (m) de) megafonía (f); altavoces (m); altoparlantes (m); (LAm) the captain spoke to the passengers over the public address system the news was announced on the public address system
public affairs (n) actividades (f) públicas the aging dictator was spending less and less time on public affairs, and more and more on the golf course in those days women were not supposed to take an interest in public affairs every local authority is legally obliged to have a public analyst - he or she is the first line of defence when it comes to protecting the consumer from contaminated food and drink concern felt by public analysts about contamination of the environmen public analysts found that, out of 293 samples of different fruits and vegetables 10% contained DDT
public assistance (n) (US) asistencia (f) pública those who were indigent should be offered private charity rather than public assistance
to be on public assistance recibir asistencia pública
many families here are poor; many are on public assistance they lost the mortgage on the house, and ended up on public assistance
public bar (n) bar (m)
public body (n) organismo (m) público this public body was specifically established to safeguard sites and habitats of great ecological value his work for various public bodies left him little spare time the interaction between public bodies and private firms the Albanian government has ordered the removal of the name of Stalin from all public buildings
public company (n) empresa (f) pública
public convenience (n) (Britain) servicios (m); aseos (m) públicos he was arrested in a public convenience free public conveniences throughout London have been closed the US postal service became a public corporation 21 years ago Kravis has spent more than dollars 55bn taking public corporations private
public debt (n) deuda (f) pública; deuda (f) del Estado every child born in Antwerp inherits a public debt of 130,000 Belgian francs servicing the interest on the public debt was a huge burden
public defender (n) (US) defensoradefensora (m) (f) de oficio;a defensora her attorney, public defender David Falls, requested a hearing a group of attorneys from the public defender's office in Contra Costa County
public enquiry (n) (Britain) the Labour Party, whose support for public enterprise has already put a stop to any further privatisation his description of Canada as a public enterprise economy concern has focused on the issue of public examinations in secondary schools, particularly on the relationship between GCE and CSE examinations
public expenditure (n) gasto (m) (del sector) público social security costs amount to nearly 20 per cent of total public expenditure the government is looking for cuts in public expenditure the public footpath alongside the brook was impassable the spring can be reached by public footpath they sat in the packed public gallery upstairs at Winchester crown court his mother sat sobbing in the public gallery just yards from the witness box his speech was greeted by cheers and whistling from a public gallery
public health (n) salud (f) pública; sanidad (f) pública beef from countries in which BSE occurs "is not considered to be a threat to public health" the decision to ban further nuclear testing had been taken because of /concern for public health/ AIDS continues to be /a major public health threat/ because it is a communicable disease that has no cure all TV advertising of tobacco products is banned /for public-health reasons/
public health inspector (n) inspectorainspectora (m) (f) de salud or sanidad pública;a inspectora he is a public health inspector with the local council
Public Health Service (n) (US) Seguridad (f) Social; servicio público de asistencia sanitaria Congress authorized the Public Health Service to review the list of infectious diseases
public holiday (n) fiesta (f) nacional; fiesta (f) oficial; (día (m)) feriado (m); (LAm) Saturday was a public holiday in Iraq markets were closed for a public holiday
public house (n) (Britain) bar (m) they found him in a gutter outside a Chelsea public house there is a long waiting list for public housing officials have called Detroit's public housing among the worst-managed in the nation
public inquiry (n) investigación (f) oficial By announcing a public inquiry, the government is also hoping to counter allegations that it may have been involved in a cover-up ...a group which has been pressing for a full public inquiry into the Lockerbie disaster he asked for directions to the nearest public lavatory
public law (n) (discipline, body of legislation) derecho (m) público; (US) (piece of legislation) ley (f) pública the creation of a body of civil, criminal and public law ensures a higher level of social harmony Neil MacCormick, now Professor of Public Law at Edinburgh University Public Law 94-142 requires states to provide free, appropriate public education Public Lending Right /some authors receive up to £6,000 a year from the Public Lending Right/, which pays them £1.37 each time a book is borrowed from a library
public library (n) biblioteca (f) pública the New York Public Library both of these books can be obtained from the public library to be active in public life /he retired from public life/ to a monastery I'd like to see more women in public life, especially Parliament his obituary commemorated his tremendous contribution to public life the declining power of religious organizations in public life
public limited company (n) sociedad (f) anónima British Aerospace became a public limited company and a professional Chairman was appointed most businesses these days are set up as limited companies (Ltd) or as public limited companies (PLC) it's a scandalous waste of public money we want to know why public money was used to pay his legal bill the Universities Funding Council (UFC), which allocates public money on behalf of the Government
public nuisance (n) (Jur) molestia (f) pública he's a public nuisance siempre está causando problemas or molestias
logically where there are no passers-by apart from men looking for prostitutes there is no public nuisance they'll write letters to owners of properties considered a public nuisance and collect drug litter to bring to court Back in the 1980s drug users were a public nuisance in Zurich he had once denounced drummers as parasites and public nuisances
to cause a public nuisance alterar el orden público
Burrows admitted causing a public nuisance and was yesterday jailed for six months the 45-day jail sentence he received for causing a public nuisance after taking part in a demonstration among public officials, examples of corruption and dishonesty are too numerous to even cite the law forbids public officials from using their office for direct personal gain
public opinion (n) opinión (f) pública he mobilized public opinion all over the world against hydrogen-bomb tests the politicians have to respond to public opinion
public opinion poll (n) sondeo (m) (de la opinión pública) public opinion polls showed Grant trailing Murray we believe in public ownership the elimination of class conflict through /extension of public ownership/ and a statutory minimum wage [in] public ownership BR should remain in public ownership in the preceding twelve months in public ownership the NFC had not made enough profits to pay the interest on its loan to [take] [bring] sth into public ownership after the revolution all the landowners' property was taken into public ownership in 1933 the urban transport systems in London were brought into public ownership land can be controlled by bringing it into public ownership the Labour party needs to adopt other strategies than simply to take ailing firms into public ownership a demand to bring private bus companies back into public ownership was firmly rejected
public property (n) (land, buildings) dominio (m) público ...vandals who wrecked public property Half of the north-west's timber land is public property the alleged plundering of public property by the Sandinistas person, private life
he couldn't handle being public property no podía soportar ser un personaje público; his private life is public property su vida privada es de dominio público
For thirty years Castro had been public property, as much nationalized as the sugar industry,or the tobacco companies She complained that /intimate aspects of her personal life had been made public property/
public prosecutor (n) fiscal (m) the public prosecutor has decided that there's not enough evidence against him to warrant a trial
the Public Prosecutor's Office la fiscalía
[the] public purse the royal family is funded from the public purse British Steel became hugely unprofitable and a constant drain on the public purse Her Majesty is naturally keen to avoid additional demands upon the public purse it is alarming that the cost of this protection should be met from the public purse
Public Record Office (n) (Britain) archivo (m) nacional the files, released at the Public Record Office in Kew, West London, contained interviews portraying Hess as a desperate man
public relations (n) relaciones (f) públicas it's good for public relations his behaviour was not good for public relations
the police action was a public relations disaster la actuación de la policía fue desastrosa para su imagen; it's just a public relations exercise es solo una operación publicitaria or de relaciones públicas
Sotheby's public relations people embarked on an ambitious programme Dunseath Stephen, an agency in Edinburgh, is to handle PR and promotions for the Balmoral Hotel
public relations officer (n) encargadoaencargada (m) (f) de relaciones públicas;a encargada George is a public relations officer for The John Bennett Trust British Coal's corporate public relations officer defends its open-cast mining record /no visitors were allowed except in public rooms/ and all visitors had to be off the premises by seven at night
public school (n) (Britain) colegio (m) privado; (boarding school) internado (m) privado that kind of confidence that /a public school education/ gives to people a former public school boy he was headmaster of a public school in the West of England the boy from the streets who went to public school
(US) escuela (f) pública public school children Milwaukee's public school system a strike by public school teachers in Detroit
the public sector (n) el sector público 60,000 public-sector jobs must be cut se deben eliminar 60.000 puestos de funcionario; se deben eliminar 60.000 puestos en el sector público
Carlos Menem's policy of reducing the public sector and opening up the economy to free-market forces [the] public sector [borrowing requirement] money borrowed by the Government to finance its public sector borrowing requirement" (PSBR)
public servant (n) funcionarioafuncionaria (m) (f);a funcionaria the pay review body found that senior public servants had fallen well behind their private sector counterparts
public service (n) (Civil Service) administración (f) pública; (usu pl) (community facility) servicio (m) público she will be remembered for a lifetime of public service se la recordará por cómo entregó su vida al servicio de la comunidad; in doing this they were performing a public service con esto estaban haciendo un servicio a la comunidad
Of all public services, the police were the least affected by the Thatcher revolution The Post Office is a public service which has made the transition to profitable corporation the money is used by local authorities to pay for public services his heroes are men who believed in public service the notion of public service and obligation which has been under such attack an egalitarian society based on cooperation and public service /sportsmen are performing a public service/ by bringing the joys of major-league baseball to their communities
public service announcement comunicado (m) de interés público
A public service announcement on the local radio station advises farmers that they can sue neighbors whose forest fires spread onto their property Israel TV began broadcasting public service announcements on how to prepare for an emergency [in] public service he had had a long career in public service /after a lifetime in public service/, Ray and Monica Jones have trouble making ends meet
public service jobs puestos (m) de funcionario or en el sector público; public service vehicle vehículo (m) de servicio público
no-one with important heart disease may be an airline pilot or a driver of a heavy goods vehicle or public service vehicle
public service worker funcionarioafuncionaria (m) (f);a funcionaria
a strike by /public service workers/
public speaker (n) oradoraoradora (m) (f);a oradora she is a good public speaker habla muy bien en público; es una buena oradora
public speaking (n) oratoria (f) unaccustomed as I am to public speaking ... he dreaded public speaking and used to become ill before a scheduled appearance
public spending (n) gasto (m) (del sector) público the social services account for a substantial part of public spending the government is reducing public spending the society's aim was the fomentation of the ideals of patriotism and public spirit there must have been more to Mary's burst of public spirit than met the eye it would be silly to blame politicians for a lack of public spirit I'd left the hotel and made the call from a public telephone he went to a public telephone booth box and made two calls
public television (n) (US) cadenas (f) públicas (de televisión) San Francisco has denied a petition by a public television station to videotape executions Wiseman's documentary "Aspen" is on public television tonight
public transport public transportation (US) (n) transporte(s) (m)plural
público(s); (p) to ban smoking on public transport prohibir fumar en los medios de transporte público
the new museum must be accessible by public transport she doesn't like using public transport the top priorities for the future must include improving public transport Japan and France have fast, efficient public transport systems Dublin has one of the simplest public transport networks in Europe to travel [on] [by] public transport despite his elevated status he still travels by public transport It always took me an hour because I used to come on public transport
public utility (n) empresa (f) del servicio público officials said water supplies and other public utilities in the capital were badly affected families on the receiving end of the public welfare system [the] public welfare an individual with communicable tuberculosis represented a threat to the public welfare the fire had resulted from carelessness, not conscious disregard of the public welfare
public works (n) obras (f) públicas he was preparing a a mighty programme of public works and job creation that lifted the American economy jobs in public works projects
