Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

guia de marcha

English translation:

Travel warrant

Added to glossary by Eduardo López
Aug 7, 2020 21:53
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Portuguese term

guia de marcha

Portuguese to English Law/Patents Government / Politics Diplomacia
REPÚBLICA DE ANGOLA
MINISTÉRIO DAS RELAÇÕES EXTERIORES
DIRECÇÃO DOS RECURSOS HUMANOS

GUIA DE MARCHA No. XXX/2013

Com o fito de Frequentar um estágio prático, segue apresentar-se à Direcção América, o Sr. YYY, contratado por Despacho No. XXX/13 de 02 de Abril, de Sua Excelência o Ministro das Relações Exteriores, para exercer as funções de 3° Secretário na Embaixada da República de Angola em Washington, Estados Unidos da América. -


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Change log

Aug 7, 2020 21:54: Eduardo López changed "Language pair" from "English to Portuguese" to "Portuguese to English" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "Diplomacia"

Discussion

expressisverbis Aug 7, 2020:
Do que conheço, uma guia de marcha é um documento de autorização para deslocações/viagens em missão de serviço.
"Havia um posto de controlo que exigia a chamada “guia de marcha”, autorização onde se descrevia o motivo da deslocação."
https://acervo.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/a-colonia-onde-todas...

E aqui vê um exemplo de uma guia de marcha:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jITfO0g...

Deve mudar o par de línguas, pois está trocado.

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Marching orders

https://www.google.com/search?q="marching orders" diplomatic...

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The original meaning, which then acquired a more "informal" meaning:

What is a marching order?
plural noun

orders to begin a march or other troop movement. Informal. orders to start out, move on, proceed, etc.: We're just sitting by the phone, awaiting our marching orders.

marching orders
noun
orders for troops to depart.
"soldiers got their marching orders for 24 hours at the weekend"
INFORMAL
a dismissal or sending-off.
"the ref called me over and gave me my marching orders"

I have now found that in the UK it usually means:
UK
(US walking papers)
If you give someone their marching orders, you ask that person to leave a place or a job because they have done something wrong:
Three players got their marching orders last week.
She was called into the boss's office and given her marching orders.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/marching...

whereas in the US it means:
US
instructions from someone in authority about what you should do:
He was waiting for new marching orders from the White House.
Example sentence:

Diplomats-in-Residence get marching orders.

Senior national security columnist Walter Pincus writes about the latest marching orders out of DoD to fail and fail fast in the race for technology

Peer comment(s):

neutral David Hollywood : "marching orders" means that the person involved has been fired and has to leave his/her position and I don't think that's the case here...can also be used positively but normally with regard to mobilizing troops...
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I have to disagree. It is not always used as a "bad thing". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marching orders
agree Muriel Vasconcellos
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Thank you, Muriel!
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