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UK: /fɔːθ/ US: /fɔːrθ/Translation
n [c]
› US
⇨ cuarto
⇨ cuarta parte
A fourth of all the employees are graduates Una cuarta parte de los empleados son graduados
■ Cuando se habla de proporciones y períodos de tiempo, normalmente se dice a quarter, no a fourth: I'll be finished in a quarter of an hour - Estaré lista en un cuarto de hora(Definition of fourth n from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish
© Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)
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