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Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Accounting / hospitals | | Portuguese term or phrase: arcando com (in this context) | | Consideradas essas limitações (quantitativo equivalente a 9% de população residente ao ano e valor máximo a ser gasto por estado determinado por portarias), os gestores estaduais e municipais optam, na maioria das vezes, por cobrar aqueles procedimentos mais caros, **arcando com** os custos dos mais baratos. |
|  Muriel VasconcellosKudoZ activityQuestions: 520 (none open) ( 113 closed without grading) Answers: 4589
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| | absorbing | Explanation:
Outra opção, menos literal:
Businesses Are Absorbing Fuel Costs Instead of Passing Them On. Monday, May 01, 2006. SUSIE GHARIB: With oil prices rising, many businesses are bracing ...
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In this case, the department is responsible for absorbing any costs if sponsor declines to pay the late invoice. If the department is responsible for ...
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 Fernando Domeniconi
Local time: 00:35
| Grading comment Yes, that's the angle I was looking for -- they are not actually paying out this money, just absorbing the cost.
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Explanation:
Bearing the costs. Uma das acepções do verbo "to bear" é "arcar com" (despesas, custos, etc.). Abraços
Example sentence(s):- http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22bearing+the+costs%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&x=wrt.
| Marisa Pacheco
Local time: 00:35
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