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shoulder months

German translation: Schultersaison / Übergangsmonat

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English term or phrase:shoulder months
German translation:Schultersaison / Übergangsmonat

14:24 Nov 7, 2000
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Bus/Financial
English term or phrase: shoulder months
About gas storage

Storage withdrawal period reduced by use of commercial hedging in shoulder month
Daniel Meturgan
Schultersaison / Übergangsmonat
Explanation:
There is no such word as a Schultermonat; however, the travel industry does use the term "Schultersaison", so you could possibly say s.th. like "während der Schultersaison" or "während der in die Schultersaison fallenden Monate" (both of which would imply that the period is longer than one month). If it's only one month, I'd suggest using "Übergangsmonat" (~ transition month) or "Saisonübergangsmonat" (transition month between seasons).
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naONLY "Übergangsmonat(e)"
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Schultersaison / Übergangsmonat


Explanation:
There is no such word as a Schultermonat; however, the travel industry does use the term "Schultersaison", so you could possibly say s.th. like "während der Schultersaison" or "während der in die Schultersaison fallenden Monate" (both of which would imply that the period is longer than one month). If it's only one month, I'd suggest using "Übergangsmonat" (~ transition month) or "Saisonübergangsmonat" (transition month between seasons).

Ulrike Lieder (X)
Local time: 05:59
Native speaker of: German
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Du hast mir sehr geholfen Uel. Ich danke dir.
Herzliche Gruesse.
Daniel Meturgan
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ONLY "Übergangsmonat(e)"


Explanation:

Confirmation for uel's "Übergangsmonate", but ONLY for "Übergangsmonate".

According to the English part of this Dutch gas supply company:

http://www.gasunie.nl/Eng/CDS/p_l3.htm

The months are categorized as follows:

Summer = April, May, June, July, August, September
shoulder = March, October, November
Winter = December, January and February

The corresponding Dutch page of the site uses the word "flanken" which is also logical but there were no search engine hits in German for "Flankenmonat(e)" or "Flankenzeit".

This American site:

http://www.plpower.com/plp/noflash/three.html

shows the "Shoulder Months" to be:

March, April, May, June, September

None of the German utilities sites I found used such a system, they all used the same price year-round.

The AltaVista queries +Gas +Übergangsmonate yielded these hits.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hgrasshoff/presse.h...

http://www.thermolux.de/FrageD.htm

http://www.michel-schorndorf.de/faq.htm

http://www.sendner.com/mair/modernisierung.htm

http://www.vis.de/schlaak/

This phrase was also used:

"... Übergangszeit(en) (Frühling/Herbst) ..." as at these sites:

http://www.bau.org/forum/fussbodenheizung/1.htm

http://www.ratiotherm.de/quellen.htm

http://www.ibf-niedrig-energiehaus.de/heizung2.html

but without the words "Frühling/Herbst", "Übergangszeit(en)" could have too many other meanings.

- HTH - Dan


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