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armação

English translation: frame-up...setup

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Portuguese term or phrase:armação
English translation:frame-up...setup
Entered by: airmailrpl

17:17 Sep 18, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Slang / slang
Portuguese term or phrase: armação
I am thinking that in this context possibly "framed"

QUE o depoente assinou o documento por coação, com um revólver empunhado por ABC apontado contra si, na presença de todos os que participavam da reunião; QUE o depoente não foi responsável por qualquer desfalque, tendo sido vítima de CAETANO e VICENTE numa espécie de armação;
Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 16:22
frame up
Explanation:
numa espécie de armação => a frame up

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Note added at 9 mins (2006-09-18 17:26:56 GMT)
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DA-DZ
... broadening the defintion of access as it is used in postsecondary education. ... sent to prison on a frame-up by some crooked cops and his arch rival, ...
www.pitt.edu/~ciddeweb/ims/film/DA-DZ.htm

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Note added at 13 mins (2006-09-18 17:30:44 GMT)
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LP: Saddam Claims He Had Right to Order Trials
"It's all a frame-up." Two other defendants - Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid and his son ... and waging a war without any sort of defintion of victory against a ...
www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=131515&Disp=... -
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 17:22
Grading comment
Two good answers again. Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +6frame up
airmailrpl
5 +5setup
Edgar Potter
5conspiracy
Ivaneide
1 -2stick up
Susy Ordaz


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): -2
stick up


Explanation:
this is a stick up...armed robbery

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Note added at 8 mins (2006-09-18 17:26:03 GMT)
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I hit the wrong key in terms of my confidence level. Please is fairly high. Thanks Mike.

Susy Ordaz
Local time: 21:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Amy Duncan (X): It's not a stick-up, but a set-up....two completely different things!
38 mins
  -> Given the context, "revolver empunhado", it seemed like a stick up to me!!
disagree  airmailrpl: the "revolver empunhado" was to force the "depoente" to sign the document
10 hrs
  -> I finally got it. Thanks.
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
conspiracy


Explanation:
pronunciation
n., pl. -cies.

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.

[Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman, probably alteration of Old French conspiration, from Latin cōnspīrātiō, cōnspīrātiōn-, from cōnspīrātus, past participle of cōnspīrāre, to conspire. See conspire.]
uma espécie de armação...sounds like a conspiracy between the two.

Ivaneide
Brazil
Local time: 17:22
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
frame up


Explanation:
numa espécie de armação => a frame up

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Note added at 9 mins (2006-09-18 17:26:56 GMT)
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DA-DZ
... broadening the defintion of access as it is used in postsecondary education. ... sent to prison on a frame-up by some crooked cops and his arch rival, ...
www.pitt.edu/~ciddeweb/ims/film/DA-DZ.htm

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Note added at 13 mins (2006-09-18 17:30:44 GMT)
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LP: Saddam Claims He Had Right to Order Trials
"It's all a frame-up." Two other defendants - Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid and his son ... and waging a war without any sort of defintion of victory against a ...
www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=131515&Disp=... -

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 17:22
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Two good answers again. Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cristiane Gomes
7 mins
  -> agradeço
agree  Adriana Francisco (X): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameup
12 mins
  -> agradeço
agree  Fernando Domeniconi: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=frame up
17 mins
  -> agradeço
agree  Amy Duncan (X): This is good, too...same thing as setup.
45 mins
  -> agradeço..actually a "set-up" is a bit different
agree  Denise Miranda: Remember "Who framed Roger Rabbit?"? That's it!
1 hr
  -> agradeço
agree  Lincoln Silveira (X)
6 hrs
  -> agradeço
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
setup


Explanation:
See:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.aspx?define=setup

The same sense as airmailrpl's frame up... not exactly a setup, but ast the text says, "a type of setup"

Trap (armadilha) is also close to the idea

Edgar Potter
United States
Local time: 15:22
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Amy Duncan (X): This is how I'd say it.
26 mins
  -> Thanks
agree  Denise Miranda: This works very well too. Both frame and setup are good choices!
1 hr
  -> Thanks
agree  Ben Kohn
1 hr
  -> Thanks
agree  edupa
2 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  R. Alex Jenkins
8 hrs
  -> Thanks
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