Summary
function {noun}
functie · betrekking · ambt · werkkring · feestelijkheid · plechtigheid · baan · plaats · functie
to function {verb}
werken · fungeren · dienen · functioneren · het doen · in zijn werk gaan
English-Dutch translation for "function"
"function" Dutch translation
function {noun}
Sport and both professional and amateur football fulfil a broad, social function.
That is why we commend the official President in his dual function, Mr Duisenberg.
In a lot a ways, rap serves the same social function that jazz used to serve.
The War Crimes Tribunals after the Second World War also fulfilled another function.
But equally important is to preserve things that are important for function.
function {noun} (also: post, relation, office, job)
The sector inquires will provide important input as to how the markets function and how they can be improved.
membership and its function.
I believe Schengen may, and indeed should, also function as precursor in terms of twinning the areas without frontiers of the Nordic Union
The most natural solution would be for this function to be taken on by the ministers who sit on the Competitiveness Council, whose remit
It can only deal with the functioning and organisation of the CFP.
Secondly, the list of incompatible mandates should be extended to include any mandate that involves a legislative or executive function.
He has done an outstanding job in establishing the role and function of the Ombudsman as the first person to hold this important post.
It is not my parliamentary immunity which I am defending, but the immunity of my function, and thus of yours too.
As the municipal libraries cannot be eliminated for the time being, their function is being deprived of any substance.
function {noun}
function {noun} (also: solemnity, ceremony)
Basically, I celebrated every religious function.
On 19 September a Member of this Parliament, while returning from the session in Strasbourg, was invited to an official function in
At that function, Antonio di Pietro, the magistrate of Milan, one of the candidates for the Third Senatorial College in Tuscany was
Wealth is a function of income, and income comes from you finding a profitable trading opportunity or a well-paying job.
So we could show the firing rate of that neuron as a function of the animal's location.
The principle of European military defence was accepted but, for now, its function has not been clearly defined.
Therefore, the forest ceases to have an economic function and takes on an environmental role, which is also very important.
In this context, nothing is more urgent than ensuring that globalisation can function in Africa and for Africa.
First of all, there is the commendable way in which this Convention functioned.
to function {verb}
to function {vb} (also: to run, to work, to operate, to act)
On the contrary, it is an expression of democratic institutional function.
How will it function if it is going to be composed of nearly 30 members?
It is of crucial importance to have product and capital markets which function well.
But transparency will never function simply because it is written into the Treaties.
The internal market can only function with appropriate legal bases.
to function {vb}
Even where social partners function as delegates in advisory bodies, these delegates are very rarely women.
Amendments Nos 3 and 9-17 propose that straightforward national courts should function as first instance courts for Community patent
They also gave us a way to run power and rewire the trailer without tearing out the skin, so they function as an electrical chase.
We must streamline our procedures and focus more on priorities if we are to function effectively as the democratic voice of the peoples of
It should act as a transparently functioning scientific reference point for the Commission, Parliament and the Member States, but it should also be open for producers and consumers.
to function {vb} (also: to should, to serve, to must, to ought to)
I regard the broad line of separating the regulatory from the operational function as the right one.
However, we would do well to consider that the internal market must be able to continue to function efficiently in the enlarged Union.
I mean literally every table, every chair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as a surface for swaying stacks
The ASEM process has been and should remain an informal one which should primarily function as a political catalyst for achieving mutual
Authorities must set up conditions for the functioning of social relationships.
to function {vb} (also: to operate, to run, to work)
A European Union which can function efficiently, transparently and democratically.
Opposition parties are banned or it is made impossible for them to function.
The European Union can only function if it remains humanistic and fraternal.
It is important for this food authority to be able to function independently.
How else can a genuine parliament function, or is this not a genuine parliament?
to function {vb} (also: to work, to run, to operate)
to function {vb} (also: to work, to operate, to run)
Synonyms
Synonyms (English) for "function":
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Usage examples
Usage examples for "function" in Dutch
Similar words
fulcrum · full · full-grown · full-time · fuller · fully · fume · fumy · fun · Funafuti · function · functional · functionality · functionary · fund · fundamental · fundamentalism · funded · funding · funeral · fungi
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