English-Lithuanian translations for prize

• apdovanojimas
  Pone Y. Leterme, rytoj Belgijoje bus įteiktas "Auksinio batelio" apdovanojimas. Mr Leterme, tomorrow, the Golden Shoe prize will be awarded in Belgium.
  Haitis neturi būti apdovanojimas mūšyje dėl didžiųjų jėgų dominavimo. Haiti must not be the prize in a battle for domination between big powers.
  Dar kartą paminėsiu, kad apdovanojimas už didžiausią prašymų suteikti prieglobstį skaičiaus sumažinimą atitenka Prancūzijai. Once again, the prize for the biggest reduction in the number of asylum applications goes to France.
• prizas
  1988 m., kai prizas buvo įteiktas pirmą kartą, laureatas Nelson Mandela buvo kalėjime. In 1988, when the prize was awarded for the first time, the laureate Nelson Mandela was in prison.
  Be to, kreipiuosi į demokratinių įsitikinimų Europos politikus ir prašau dėti visas įmanomas pastangas, siekiant užtikrinti, kad Sacharovo prizas už minties laisvę nebūtų suteiktas Slovakijai. I also appeal to all European politicians of a democratic persuasion to make every effort to ensure that the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is not awarded to Slovakia.
  Net jei Pakistanui suteiktos lengvatos buvo tam tikras "prizas" už jo vaidmenį Afganistane, manau, kad prekybos lengvatas naudojant kaip politinę priemonę sukuriamas pavojingas precedentas. Even if the advantages given to Pakistan were a kind of 'prize' for its role in Afghanistan, I believe using trade preferences as a political instrument establishes a dangerous precedent.

Definition of prize

• That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power
• Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel
• An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort
• That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery
• Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect
• A contest for a reward; competition
• A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever
• To consider highly valuable; to esteem
• To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate
• To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry
• Having won a prize; award-winning
• first-rate; exceptional

Examples

• a prize vegetable
• He was a prize fool.

Related words

• enterprize
• prize-winner
• prizewinner
• prizewinning
• apprize
• prizeman
• anti-prize
• prize|Prize
• prize wheel