Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
O despachante cobra uma pequena taxa para licenciar o carro.
English translation:
The expeditor charges a small fee to help you get your car licensed
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Veronikka (X)
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Portuguese term
O despachante cobra uma pequena taxa para licenciar o carro.
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Sobre despachantes usados para licenciarem carros... geralmente têm escritórios perto das delegacias e são muito procurados para agilizarem o processo de licenciamento.
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Fiona Stephenson
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The expeditor charges a small fee to help you get your car licensed
The despachante (nothing to do with despachante aduaneiro in this case) doesn't actually license the car, but helps in the process.
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The customs agent charges a fee of small amount to legalize the car
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but I prefer the passive structure: A fee of small amount is charged by the customs agent to legalize the car.
but I prefer the passive structure: A fee of small amount is charged by the customs agent to legalize the car.
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The document agent charges a small fee to license your car
Really straightforward.
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The agente charges a fee to do the paperwork for you to get your car licensed
The agente charges a fee to do the paperwork for you to get your car licensed
The term despachante is derived from the Portuguese adjective meaning “efficient” - which I confess may seem some what ironic at this point in our discussion. If you look up the word “despachante” in a Portuguese/English dictionary, it is generally defined as a “shipping agent,” a “document agent” or a “customs agent”; however this term is more broadly used to refer to the middleman or facilitator of business transactions of all sorts.
http://www.brazilmax.com/columnist.cfm/idcolumn/101
a despachante is "a Portuguese term for a personal dispatcher, expediter, buyer, or runner. No official document is obtained in Brazil without waiting in long lines.
http://www.gringoes.com/articles.asp?ID_Noticia=1469
The term despachante is derived from the Portuguese adjective meaning “efficient” - which I confess may seem some what ironic at this point in our discussion. If you look up the word “despachante” in a Portuguese/English dictionary, it is generally defined as a “shipping agent,” a “document agent” or a “customs agent”; however this term is more broadly used to refer to the middleman or facilitator of business transactions of all sorts.
http://www.brazilmax.com/columnist.cfm/idcolumn/101
a despachante is "a Portuguese term for a personal dispatcher, expediter, buyer, or runner. No official document is obtained in Brazil without waiting in long lines.
http://www.gringoes.com/articles.asp?ID_Noticia=1469
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The forwarding agent charges a small fee to license the car.
My suggestion.
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