English-French translations for plumbing

• plomberie
  Mais la plomberie a des limites: il faut s'attaquer à l'architecture financière internationale. However, plumbing has its limits: we need to address the architecture of international finance.
  Encore plus rares sont les citoyens qui font appel à la concurrence européenne quand ils ont un problème de plomberie. There are even fewer citizens who call on the European competition when they have a plumbing problem.
  Cela signifie que, d'ici cinq à dix ans, il n'y aura peut-être plus assez de travailleurs qualifiés dans les secteurs de la menuiserie, de la plomberie, du bâtiment etc., pour répondre à la demande. That means that possibly in five to ten years time there will not be sufficient skilled workers in carpentry, plumbing, building and so on to meet the demand.
• tuyauterie
  On le dit souvent à juste titre, la compensation et le règlement-livraison constituent la tuyauterie des marchés des valeurs mobilières, sans laquelle rien ne fonctionne. In fact, as is often said with reason, clearing and settlement is the plumbing system of the securities markets, without which nothing works.
  Même nos chefs d'État ou de gouvernement se mettent à la plomberie pour colmater les brèches incessantes d'une tuyauterie financière internationale en état de rupture totale. Even our Heads of State or Government have had to turn their hand to plumbing, to plug the incessant burst pipes in an international financial system that is in a state of total collapse.
• canalisation
• plombage

Definition of plumbing

• The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building
• A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system
• Practical, concrete work serving to support other work
• A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments

Examples

• My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.
• This is not scientific research as such: its just plumbing.

Related words

• plumbic
• plumbiferous
• plumbism
• plumbic oxide
• plumbing specialist
• anhydrous plumbic acid