acarrear

From a- +‎ carro +‎ -ear. Compare also Occitan carrejar, French charrier, Italian carreggiare, Neapolitan carreare, Sicilian carriari; see also Romanian căra.

• IPA^(key): /akareˈaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ca‧rre‧ar

acarrear (first-person singular present acarreo, first-person singular preterite acarreé, past participle acarreado)

1. (transitive) to carry, haul

   Synonyms: transportar, cargar, llevar, portar

2. (transitive, figurative) to cause, bring up (negative effects)
   • 2019 September 18, Íñigo de Barrón, quoting Margarita Delgado, “El supervisor cree que Google, Amazon y Facebook pueden crear riesgos sistémicos en el sector financiero”, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:

     [Margarita Delgado] ha avisado este miércoles de que la actuación de las bigtech […] como intermediarios financieros puede “acarrear riesgos sistémicos, como tuvimos la desgracia de comprobar con el estallido de la crisis financiera”.

     She has warned this Wednesday that the actions of bigtech as financial intermediaries can “carry systemic risks, as we had the misfortune to verify with the outbreak of the financial crisis”.

• “acarrear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28