acarrear

From a- +‎ carro +‎ -ear. Compare also Occitan carrejar, French charrier, Italian carreggiare, Neapolitan carreare, Sicilian carriari; see also Romanian căra.

• IPA^(key): /akareˈaɾ/ [a.ka.reˈaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ca‧rre‧ar

acarrear (first-person singular present acarreo, first-person singular preterite acarreé, past participle acarreado)

1. (transitive) to carry, haul

   Synonyms: transportar, cargar, llevar, portar

2. (transitive, figurative) to cause, bring up (negative effects)
   • 2019 September 18, Íñigo de Barrón, quoting Margarita Delgado, “El supervisor cree que Google, Amazon y Facebook pueden crear riesgos sistémicos en el sector financiero”, in El País‎^[1], Madrid, →ISSN:

     [Margarita Delgado] ha avisado este miércoles de que la actuación de las bigtech […] como intermediarios financieros puede “acarrear riesgos sistémicos, como tuvimos la desgracia de comprobar con el estallido de la crisis financiera”.

     She [Margarita Delgado] has warned this Wednesday that the actions of bigtech […] as financial intermediaries can “carry systemic risks, as we had the misfortune to verify with the outbreak of the financial crisis”.

• “acarrear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28