English-Spanish translations for sluice

esclusaA partir de 2002, señor Presidente, la moneda única suprimirá los amortiguadores presupuestarios, es decir, las esclusas monetarias que permiten nivelar las diferentes economías. As of 2002, the single currency will get rid of the budgetary shock-absorber, i.e. the monetary sluice-gates that enable different economies to rise to different levels.
compuertaLas compuertas se gestionan conforme a las normas comunes. The sluices are managed according to common rules. Modificar las normas de los instrumentos de protección del comercio de forma unilateral debilitaría el embalse para evitar gestionar las compuertas. To unilaterally alter the rules of the trade protection instruments would be to weaken the dam in order to avoid managing the sluices.

An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply
The stream flowing through a floodgate
An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing
To emit by, or as by, flood gates
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice
To wash (''down'or ''out''
To flow, pour
To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See

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