English-Spanish translations for sacrifice

sacrificarLes pregunto: ¿Vamos a sacrificar dicho éxito? I ask you: are we going to sacrifice this success? Nunca podremos sacrificar una en aras de la otra. We shall never be able to sacrifice one to the other. No debemos sacrificar el largo plazo en aras del corto plazo. We must not sacrifice the long term to the short term.
sacrificioEstá muy bien que se pida un sacrificio, pero el sacrificio tiene también un precio. It is fine to ask for sacrifice but sacrifice also comes at a price. Debemos recordar su sacrificio. We should remember their sacrifice. No queremos que su sacrificio sea en vano. We do not want their sacrifice to be in vain.

To offer as a gift to a deity
To trade for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money
To intentionally give up in order to improve one’s position on the board
To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value
The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite
The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing
Something sacrificed
A loss of profit

Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer
the sacrifice of ones spare time in order to volunteer

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