English-Portuguese translations for absorb

absorverActualmente, a PAC continua a absorver metade do orçamento da UE.Currently the CAP continues to absorb half the EU budget. A Europa conta actualmente 16 milhões de desempregados que não consegue absorver. Europe currently has 16 million unemployed whom it cannot absorb. Parece-nos existir uma capacidade limitada para absorver os aumentos concreta e eficazmente. We suggest there is limited capacity to absorb increases effectively and efficiently.
aderirPor conseguinte, é necessário examinarmos não só a capacidade da Turquia para aderir à União, mas também a nossa capacidade para a absorver. Therefore, we need now to look not only at Turkey's ability to join the Union, but also at our ability to absorb it. É que, para que os países que acabaram de aderir sejam capazes de absorver a mudança, é necessário aumentar os esforços para desenvolver as capacidades administrativas necessárias nestes países.For, if the newly-acceding countries are to be enabled to absorb change, efforts must be stepped up to develop the necessary administrative capacities in these countries.

To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully
To occupy or consume time.
To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction
To accept or purchase in quantity

Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.

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