Portuguese | English |
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prega noun {f} | kink [kinks](tight curl, twist, or bend) plait [plaits](flat fold) pleat [pleats](fold in a fabric of a garment) ruffle [ruffles](strip of fabric) |
prega faca noun {f} | knife pleat(a type of sharply pressed pleating) |
pregado noun | turbot [turbots](any of various flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae) |
pregador noun | preacher [preachers](one who preaches) |
pregador noun {m} | clothes peg(an object used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline) peg [pegs](a protrusion used to hang things on) |
pregar verb | nail [nailed, nailing, nails](employ a nail as a fastener) pray [prayed, praying, prays](to petition a higher being) preach [preached, preaching, preaches](give a sermon) predicate [predicated, predicating, predicates](to announce or assert publicly) |
pregar aos convertidos verb | preach to the choir(speaking to those who already believe) |
pregar uma peça verb | wind up(to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock) |
desempregado adjective | idle [idler, idlest](not engaged in any occupation or employment) unemployed(having no job) |
desempregar-se verb | quit [quitted, quitted, quitting, quits](to resign) |
empregabilidade noun {f} | employability [employabilities](state of being employable) |
empregada noun {f} | charwoman [charwomen](cleaning lady) domestic [domestics](household servant) employee [employees](individual who provides labor to a company or another person) handmaid(maid that waits at hand) maid [maids](female servant or cleaner) waitress [waitresses](female waiter) |
empregada doméstica noun {f} | domestic [domestics](household servant) |
empregado noun {m} | employee [employees](individual who provides labor to a company or another person) servant [servants](one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation) waiter [waiters](a server in a restaurant or similar) |
empregado adjective {m} | employed(working) |
empregado de escritório noun {m} | clerk [clerks](one working with records etc.) |
empregador noun {m} | employer [employers](person or entity which employs others) |
empregar verb | employ [employed, employing, employs](to put into use) hire [hired, hiring, hires](to employ) make use(to use) |
os desempregados adjective {m-Pl} | unemployed(unemployed, used as a substantive: the unemployed as a group) |