encargo
See also: encargó
Galician edit
Verb edit
encargo
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: en‧car‧go
Etymology 1 edit
From encarregar + -o.
Noun edit
encargo m (plural encargos)
- responsibility (duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable)
- a fee or tax
- post (appointed position)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
encargo
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
encargo m (plural encargos)
- order (a product that is ordered)
- Synonym: pedido
- errand, task
- commission, assignment, job (an order at work from one's boss)
Derived terms edit
- asesinato por encargo (“murder-for-hire, contract killing”)
- más tonto que mandado hacer de encargo
- por encargo
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
encargo
Further reading edit
- “encargo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014