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English translation: car breakers

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Portuguese term or phrase:desmanche (de carros)
English translation:car breakers
Entered by: Paula Borges

01:51 Feb 12, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Journalism
Portuguese term or phrase: desmanche (de carros)
"unidade especializada na repressão dos desmanches ilegais"

desmanche (PT-BR) - local onde são desmontados os carros. Neste contexto, local onde carros roubados são desmontados para que sejam vendidas as peças.

Obrigada!
Paula Borges
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:27
car breakers
Explanation:
just like ship breakers. Dismantelers is aslo used but is not so common
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Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 08:27
Grading comment
thank you
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4car breakers
Douglas Bissell
5 +2car (or vehicle) disassembler
Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
5 +2chop shop (US)
Muriel Vasconcellos
4 +2scrapyard/junkyard
Martin Riordan
4cutting of cars, car's cutting
Lais Leite


  

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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cutting of cars, car's cutting


Explanation:
place where cars are cut
place for cutting cars


    Reference: http://www.babylon.com
    Reference: http://www.babylon.com
Lais Leite
Brazil
Local time: 04:27
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
scrapyard/junkyard


Explanation:
O link abaixo oferece vários nomes para "desmanche". Pode escolher!

"A scrapyard (British English) or junkyard (American English) (also called wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap), is the location of a dismantling business..."


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_yard
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 04:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti
5 hrs
  -> Obrigado!
agree  Juliet Attwater
1 day 16 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
car (or vehicle) disassembler


Explanation:
Veja link.


    Reference: http://ottawa.kijiji.ca/c-jobs-general-labour-Impound-lot-ma...
Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
Brazil
Local time: 04:27
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
2 hrs
agree  Prof. Tony Gee: but I would refer to that as "car (or vehicle) disassembling. But yeah... that's just about right!!! :)
15 hrs
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
car breakers


Explanation:
just like ship breakers. Dismantelers is aslo used but is not so common


    Reference: http://www.accessplace.com/car-breaker
Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 08:27
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nick Taylor: UK at least
1 hr
  -> thanks, Nick
agree  Marlene Curtis
2 hrs
  -> thanks, Marlene
agree  Evans (X)
4 hrs
  -> thanks, Gilla
agree  connie leite
10 hrs
  -> thanks, connie
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
chop shop (US)


Explanation:
Note definition below.

A chop shop is a slang phrase for an illegal location or business which disassembles stolen automobiles for the purpose of selling them as parts. ...
Difficulties stealing certain cars - Operation - Example statistics - References
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_shop

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Note added at 21 hrs (2011-02-12 23:26:06 GMT)
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It's a big industry in my area, a few minutes from the US-Mexico border. See the references below to legal, high-end chop shops.

chop shop n. Slang A place where stolen cars are disassembled for parts that are then sold.
www.answers.com › ... › Literature & Language › Dictionary


Christopher Dean Watt (in orange) appeared in court Friday on charges of operating a chop shop and receiving stolen goods. His Greenwood lawyer, C. Rauch ...
Anderson Independent Mail

Man arrested on suspicion of operating chop shop
Bakersfield Californian (blog)

The ORIGINAL Chop-Shop Customs for cars. Our facility handles metal fabrication, classic /exotic auto body & quality paint and is located in Woburn MA.
www.chop-shopcustoms.com/

Legal Chop Shop provides all kinds of auto parts to Fort Wayne, IN. Call 260-471-4733 And we buy cars.
www.legalchopshop.com/

Welcome to Eastside Chop Shop. We are a full service repair facility that specializes in Harley Davidson and Custom Motorcycles. ...
www.eastsidechopshop.com/

Police suspect bicycle chop shop in North Seattle storage locker
Mar 23, 2010 ... Seattle police are investigating a man suspected of collecting of stolen bicycles in a Lake City storage facility and selling them on ...
www.seattlepi.com/local/417175_bike22.html

Marty's Chop Shop is a high-end custom car builder. Located in the Finger Lakes in New York State here you can have a one of a kind custom built street rod, ...
www.martyschopshop.com/

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 00:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Donna Sandin: definitely agree, for US use. "car breakers" sounds British, I have never heard it
53 mins
  -> Thanks, Dopnna! Nice to hear from you. I had never heard of 'car breakers' either.
agree  Beatriz Souza: apesar do atraso, "na mosca", Muriel! beatriz souza
3 days 1 hr
  -> Hi Beatriz! Thanks.
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