English-Dutch translations for pedestal

• sokkel
• voetstuk
  . – De koningin van de ministerraden, de Raad ECOFIN, is met een luide plof van haar voetstuk gekukeld. . – The Queen of the Councils of Ministers, the Ecofin, has come tumbling off her pedestal with a loud thud.
  De Commissie is vaak arrogantie verweten, maar komt nu van haar voetstuk af. Although often suspected of arrogance, the Commission has managed to come down off its pedestal.
  Als we de fraude echt willen bestrijden moeten we de Commissie van haar voetstuk stoten en haar weer onder toezicht te plaatsen. To truly fight against fraud, the Commission must be removed from its pedestal, and it must itself be subject to control.

Definition of pedestal

• The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp
• A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box
• An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier
• To set or support on a pedestal

Examples

• He has put his mother on a pedestal. You cant say a word against her

Related words

• pedestal fan
• pedestal table
• pedestal plate
• leg; pedestal
• place on a pedestal
• put on a pedestal
• set on a pedestal
• WC pedestal
• put somebody on a pedestal