Vocabulary

guardias aduaneras - custom house officials

abarrotado - glutted, cram full

acorazado - iron-clad

contabilizar - to journalize (accounting)

alerta - on the alert, on the look out

conducta - conduct, behaviour

dar en el clavo - to hit it

llevar - to carry, to wear

monopolio - monopoly

monopolismo - monopsony

mirar - to look

¡ojo! - attention!

olvidar - to forget

porcentaje - percentage

dar de baja en contabilidad - to write-off

por decirlo así - so to say, as it were

querer decir - to mean

recobrar - to recover

valor nominal - nominal value

resumir - to recapitulate, to state briefly

sinnúmero - a large number, innumerable