Ocupar un cargo

Ocupar un cargo
 

Ocupar en cargo:
How do we translate in English? this is when sb has an important job in a school or whereever?
e.g.
Mi hermano ocupa el cargo de secretario en el instituto.

to occupy the post of

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@Robin: Pjt says you simply say "Mr. Jones is the principal of the school", without that long "ocupa el cargo de". :)

However to make it sound more lofty you may use occupy the post of
Example: Hillary Clinton occupies the post of secretary of state

To me that doesn't sound lofty but rather badly translated from another language.

@pjt: how do you say it in the more general way?:

- Todos ellos aspiran a ocupar un puesto en el jobierno gobierno.
- Me ofrecieron ocupar un puesto importante en la empresa.

:thinking:

take a position/job
offer a position/job

Everyone dreamed of taking the government job.
Everyone wanted the government position.

They offered me an important position at the company.

I get it. Thank you, Rusty! :rose:

Que quisites decir con jobierno?

:rolleyes:

Algo que ver con jorobas? :applause:

@Hernán: Debe haber sido mi subconsciente. :lol:
:duh: It's been corrected. Thank you. http://forums.tomisimo.org/picture.p...&pictureid=587

I know! :D

Really? For a very brief moment I thought was mistaken but please google
it. It seems quite British. Here's one example among quite a few
http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-...to+occupy.html

Well, that happens because there is English, and then there is English.... I think it happens the same way with Spanish, and most likely with any other language. :rolleyes:

BNC has 2 instances to COCA's 1, which are numbers too small to draw any statistically valid conclusion. The Google results I get seem to be heavily weighted towards India.

In the United States "assume the post" and "occupy the post" are commonly used in journalism. Example: When Governor fill -in -the- blank got cought with his fingers in the till, he was obliged to resign and the attorney general assumed the post. He will occupy the post until next election privided he doesn't do something that will force him to resign.

I have this suggestion.

I have occupied a new charge.
Take a new position.
Get a new job.
Get a new position.
Get a new charge inside of the company.

I believe that those choices could be acceptable.

Nonetheless, the quote is from BBC and not ABC.

Probably is how it used to be termed, prior to the planning of your birth? :thinking:

The choices with the :bad: next to them are incorrect