English translation of "era ricevuto a rapporto" - "had to report to"

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152 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	era ricevuto a rapporto
Context:	Il ministro della cultura popolare era ricevuto a rapporto dal duce ogni giorno, come il..
Keywords:	...ministro degli esteri, a differenza di molti altri membri del governo che vedevano Mussolini al massimo una o due volte alla settimana.

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152 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

was summoned to report

152 months ago

Mary Jane wrote:

...was received for daily accounts by the duce

My comment:

You have to be careful with the position of the parts of speech in this sentence. Here it says everyday the duce received (as in hosted in his offices or home) the Foreign Minister, differently from other members of the government who were not granted the chance to see him every day. What is stressed here is the relationship between the minister and the duce which seems to be close and continuous. Some other answers given have a wrong grammatical approach.

152 months ago

Mary Jane wrote:

had received a report

My references:

http://www.ludovicredon.com/

152 months ago

Mary Jane wrote:

had to report to

My comment:

the underlying meaning being that he was "called in"-you can use this too-contrary to how many times the others had to call/report to him

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