Definitions tagged empresa in the street dictionary.
The largest food and beverage corporation in Venezuela, responsible for manufacturing and distributing many of the country's staples (it is a household name famously associated with beer and the pre-cooked corn flour used to make arepas).
Polar makes the best beer or Polar is the one that makes Harina PAN.
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A major Venezuelan food and beverage company specialized in beer. (It is the main competitor to the dominant brand, Polar).
The malt and the beer compete with Polar's; Regional has good beer.
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The phonetic name given by Dominicans to the San Domingo Improvement Company, an American corporation that managed the country's national debt and customs starting in the late 1800s. (A local adaptation of the English word improvement.)
The Santo Domingo Imprúven Co.
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The establishment or founding of something, especially an organization of a charitable, social, or cultural nature.
A public or private body that has been founded to carry out a specific cultural, scientific, political, or social work.
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A common shorthand for the 13th month salary paid to workers in December (Dominican law mandates an extra month of pay for employees at the end of the year).
- Did you get your El doble yet? - Yeah, now I have more credit to keep on borrowing.
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To skim some extra cash or collect kickbacks, usually through corrupt practices in a public or private institution. (The term comes from the word for crumb, implying picking up small pieces of illicit profit).
I promise that if I win the elections, I will let everyone in my party boronear!
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A boss, manager, or company that exploits or overworks employees. (The word literally means slave driver, used to describe an employer who treats workers as if they were enslaved).
Get out of there, that corporate group is the most negrero in the country.
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A strong guy, usually dark-skinned, who performs various physical tasks at a business, such as lifting boxes, labeling, moving equipment, or running errands. He is a general utility worker or handyman. (In the Dominican Republic, the term combines moreno, meaning dark-skinned, with the suffix for automatic, implying he works like a machine).
Get me a couple of morenomáticos to carry this fridge.
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