desempeñar

Spanish

Etymology

des- + empeñar

Verb

desempeñar (first-person singular present desempeño, first-person singular preterite desempeñé, past participle desempeñado)

  1. to peruse one’s efforts for, to play in or on, to fill out, to serve in or as
    • 2007, Iván Heredia Cervantes, “Las deficiencias de la regla de responsabilidad múltiple del reglamento ”Roma II””, in Anuario español de derecho internacional privado, volume 7, page 278:
      Se trata de una norma que, al menos hasta la fecha, ha despertado escaso o nulo interés doctrinal, pero que, casi con toda seguridad esté llamada a desempeñar un destacado papel en el futuro.
      We are dealing with a norm that, at least to this date, has awakened barely any dogmatical interest, but which, almost with all certainty, is destined to measure an outstanding mass of paper in the future used for treating it.

Conjugation

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