llavear

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ʝabeˈaɾ/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ʎabeˈaɾ/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃabeˈaɾ/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒabeˈaɾ/

  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: lla‧ve‧ar

Verb

llavear (first-person singular present llaveo, first-person singular preterite llaveé, past participle llaveado)

  1. (Argentina) to lock
    • 2015 July 5, “Un grupo de 200 empresas crea una patronal alternativa a CEIM”, in El País:
      Sin embargo, subraya que “la crisis, la corrupción y la falta de ética se han llaveado por delante las patronal y los sindicados”.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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