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Empresas taurinas

English translation: bullfighting agencies and promoters

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Spanish term or phrase:Empresas taurinas
English translation:bullfighting agencies and promoters

11:15 Nov 4, 2011
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2011-11-08 11:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
Spanish term or phrase: Empresas taurinas
"Empresas taurinas y empresarios en el siglo XIX"

Bullfighting firms/businesses and entrepreneurs/businessmen?
broca
Local time: 15:17
bullfighting agencies and promoters
Explanation:
My interpretation is that "empresarios" refers to a figure like you get in boxing, someone who arranges fights.
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Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:17
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4bullfighting agencies and promoters
Simon Bruni
3 +4Bullfighting companies and promoters
Lisa McCarthy
4Commercial bullfighting and its entrepreneurs
Evans (X)
5 -1Taurine Companies
Benjamin A Flores
4bullfighting impresarios
Carl Stoll


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
bullfighting agencies and promoters


Explanation:
My interpretation is that "empresarios" refers to a figure like you get in boxing, someone who arranges fights.

Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 146
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: I think you could well argue that they are really agencies", though that term isn't commonly used for them in English.
1 hr
  -> Thanks Charles
agree  philgoddard: Presumably the agencies represent the bullfighters and the promoters arrange the events.
1 hr
agree  Laura Nagle (X)
3 hrs
agree  evelyn beltrán
4 hrs
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Commercial bullfighting and its entrepreneurs


Explanation:
One way of putting this:

There is an interesting review of a book called Death and Money in the Afternoon by Adrian Shubert on the OUP website about the commercial side of bullfighting in the 18th and 19th centuries:
“The bullfight was replete with promoters, agents, journalists, and, of course, hugely-paid bullfighters who were exploited to promote wine, cigarettes, and other products.”

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780195144123.do


Evans (X)
Local time: 14:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Taurine Companies


Explanation:
Bullfighting is by far more common, but...

Latin taurinus, from taurus bull; akin to Greek tauros bull, Middle Irish tarb
First Known Use: 1613

Cehegín - Antonio Puerta Cehegín reappear on 27 March
www.portaldecehegin.com/article.asp?id=1279889
26 Jan 2011 – Cehegín City will become the center of bullfighting in the region ... cooked bull stew for visitors to participate again taurine companies ...

Benjamin A Flores
Local time: 07:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lisa McCarthy: Hi Benjamin, that reference is to a dire English translation!
20 mins
  -> well my explanation includes the fact that bullfighting is by far... I was only commenting on the definition by Websters
disagree  philgoddard: Don't know how this justifies a 5.
1 hr
  -> oops! sorry about that. I meant a 3
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Bullfighting companies and promoters


Explanation:
Possibly

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Note added at 46 mins (2011-11-04 12:02:01 GMT)
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Toro Taking? ***Bullfighting Promoters** Sue Over Ban in Barcelona ...
jonathanturley.org/.../toro-taking-bullfighting-promoters-sue-over-ba...Cached
27 Sep 2011 – Last week saw the last bullfight in Barcelona, Spain. This week there is talk of a lawsuit by ***bullfighting companies** who want compensation for ...

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 15:17
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 52

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
1 min
  -> Thanks, Jenni :)
agree  James A. Walsh
29 mins
  -> Thanks, James :)
agree  Charles Davis: "Companies" is the usual term, and "promoters" is spot on. Useful piece here: http://www.mundotoro.com/Temas/Tema.aspx?value=110#la_figura
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Charles :) That's a very informative link!
agree  eski
10 hrs
  -> Thanks, Eski :)
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
bullfighting impresarios


Explanation:
This term has a very 19th century flavour and fits well. Corporations had not come into their own, i.e .companies were not regarded as real entities. It was the boss who counted.

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Note added at 9 horas (2011-11-04 20:57:37 GMT)
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Oh, now I realize the term"empresario" was in the original.Well,then make it "bullfighting impresarios and their firms"

Carl Stoll
Argentina
Local time: 10:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 27
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