tomar refrigério

English translation: have a snack

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Spanish term or phrase:	tomar refrigério
English translation:	have a snack
Entered by:	Patricia Silva

18:56 Jun 21, 2008

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Human Resources

Spanish term or phrase: tomar refrigério

In a collective labor agreement from Argentina, concerning provisions for textile workers. Some sort of rest break, obviously.

Los operários que trabajen en horários contínuos dispondran de una pausa de viente minutos diários, a los efectos de poder tomar un refrigério.

Kathryn Litherland KudoZ activity Questions: 217 (3 open) (1 without valid answers) (16 closed without grading) Answers: 1282 United States
Local time: 05:26

have a snack

Explanation:
entitled to a daily twenty-minute break to have a snack.

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Note added at 26 mins (2008-06-21 19:22:46 GMT)
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/snack

Pls, read the fifth entry in the definition of the word "snack" as a noun.

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Patricia Silva
Argentina
Local time: 06:26

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5 +7

have a snack

Patricia Silva

5 +2

to have refreshments

Henry Hinds

take a coffee break

Roberto Rey

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1 min confidence:

take a coffee break

Explanation:
; ) or break

Roberto Rey
Colombia
Local time: 04:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

18 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

to have refreshments

Explanation:
We don't know what kind of refreshments.

Were those accent marks put in by a Brazilian?

Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 03:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 298

Notes to answerer

Asker: At first I thought it might have been a sloppy translation from Portuguese, but I am more inclined now to think that it was a scan made using OCR software set to recognize Portuguese rather than Spanish.

23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

have a snack

Patricia Silva
Argentina
Local time: 06:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 16

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