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Перевод: dowry

[существительное]
приданое; природный дар; талант ; природный талант

Тезаурус:

1. In the past it was often hung from farmhouse ceilings to display a person's wealth (the more Gaperons the better) and to indicate the size of the dowry of an eligible daughter.
2. Islington cannot even benefit from the "dowry" system (money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital) because their people never went to hospital.
3. The relationship between the size of a dowry and status makes the dowry system easily adaptable to a class society, which means that as the economies of the villages move unevenly towards capitalism the dowry system remains of vital significance both as an essential accompaniment to and a reflection of this change.
4. When the Patels emigrated to East Africa the dowry system was continued and exaggerated there.
5. Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century, when a girl's linen box, full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets, was part of her dowry.
6. Unlike the infant boys of previous minorities, an infant girl would be a pawn in the marriage market - the traditional female role - but one who took with her to her husband not just a dowry, but a kingdom.
7. A woman without wealth will have few suitors, but a woman who can produce a large dowry will have more than her share of acquisitive Strephons writing sonnets.
8. This was hardly a welcome dowry for the investors that the government wanted to attract into a newly privatised industry.
9. Rather than categorise these structures I shall describe briefly just one community, the Patels, and by tracing the changes in their dowry system, follow the changes in the position of Patel women.
10. For parents, the dowry system is yet another reason why having daughters may mean financial ruin.
11. In the villages the amounts given as a dowry vary from area to area and community to community, but within any community they depend on the status of the bridegroom and his family.
12. But since it has already written off 5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra 1.6 billion "green dowry", that means that the entire industry - with thousands of miles of pipework, reservoirs, leisure land, sewage works and so forth - is being given away for minus 1.4 billion.
13. If the Hindus and Sikhs of Punjab have taken over the concept of Izzat from the Muslims, the Muslims and Sikhs have adopted the dowry system from the Hindus.