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écoulement

English translation: selling off


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French term or phrase:écoulement
English translation:selling off
Entered by: Rebecca Elliott
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08:36 Oct 27, 2008
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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Warehousing
French term or phrase: écoulement
Not sure how best to translate "écoulement" here. This is from a Logistics contract:

Ces prix ne sont pas modifiés par les flux tant que les moyens disponibles permettent leur écoulement.

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Rebecca Elliott
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:47
selling off
Explanation:
¨GDT / Gestion

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-10-27 10:26:17 GMT)
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I confirm that "leur" definitely refer back to "les flux".
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Sébastien Ricciardi
France
Local time: 02:47
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2selling off
Sébastien Ricciardi
4delivery234561
3 +1throughputrkillings


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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
selling off


Explanation:
¨GDT / Gestion

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-10-27 10:26:17 GMT)
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I confirm that "leur" definitely refer back to "les flux".

Sébastien Ricciardi
France
Local time: 02:47
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 11
Grading comment
Thank you
Notes to answerer
Asker: As far as I can tell, the "leur" does refer back to "les flux". The previous line, which is separate from this one, is: "Les prix seront revus pour la première fois courant juin 2009, pour application au 1er Août 2009."


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: But 'selling off' conveys something of the notion of 'brader', and I don't think that is intended here, where the usage seem to me to be a lot more neutral?
10 mins
neutral  ormiston: agree with Tony that all depends on what the flow is, nice continued metaphor in French but you can't sell off flows. Might be the idea of 'running through smoothly' but will need clarification
48 mins
neutral  polyglot45: I suspect "flux" here refers to quantities of products sold and that prices won't be affected by such volumes as long as there are enough resources to keep supplies flowing.
1 hr
agree  adahjones
1 hr
agree  xxxBourth: allow them to be sold/disposed of. I think there is a faint notion of "selling off", but maybe unintentional.
1 hr
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
throughput


Explanation:
Prices do not vary with the (magnitude of the) flows so long as available resources can handle the throughput.

rkillings
United States
Local time: 17:47
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 30

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes, that's the way I read it too. Could well be "prices will not vary with the volume, so long as the available resources can cope with throughput" (i.e. we don't need to invest in more plant to handle it)
6 days
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1 day5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
delivery


Explanation:
The problem is that écoulement has no direct translation in Engish. So a word is needed to express the idea of product movement from supplier to client. I proposes "delivery". The sentence would thus read: These prices are not changed in accordance with volumes as long as the available resources permit delivery.

234561
Local time: 20:47
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: But that leads to ambiguity, since it then sounds like "have lorry, can deliver"
5 days
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Changes made by editors
Oct 27, 2008 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
Field (specific)Other => Transport / Transportation / Shipping


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