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évacuation

English translation: removal

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French term or phrase:évacuation
English translation:removal
Entered by: Scott de Lesseps

04:03 Jan 18, 2022
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Construction / Civil Engineering / plumbing
French term or phrase: évacuation
From an invoice detailing maintenance work provided.
Target audience is US.

Dépose du meuble vasque complet, évacuation et mise en décharge.

This is what I have so far:
Removal of entire vanity, drain pipe? and landfill disposal.

Is "'évacuation" either "drain pipe" or "drainage system"? Finding a lot of references for "tuyau d'évacuation" but not as much for the word by itself. Perhaps that's what they mean
here, but they just left off "tuyau"?
Scott de Lesseps
United States
Local time: 04:36
removal
Explanation:
"Dépose du meuble vasque complet, évacuation et mise en décharge."

Basically, "dépose" is whatever you want to call the opposite of fitting (de-installation, dismantling?), "évacuation" is removal, and "mise en décharge" means taking the item to a "garbage dump" or "landfull site" (in US English).

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Note added at 2 hrs (2022-01-18 06:09:48 GMT)
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Yes, Scott, but seemingly not the washbasin itself, on a literal reading of the text, just the related furniture item, see here for images for "meuble vasque":

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="meuble vasque"&source=lnm...
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Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 10:36
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4removal
Conor McAuley


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57 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
removal


Explanation:
"Dépose du meuble vasque complet, évacuation et mise en décharge."

Basically, "dépose" is whatever you want to call the opposite of fitting (de-installation, dismantling?), "évacuation" is removal, and "mise en décharge" means taking the item to a "garbage dump" or "landfull site" (in US English).

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Note added at 2 hrs (2022-01-18 06:09:48 GMT)
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Yes, Scott, but seemingly not the washbasin itself, on a literal reading of the text, just the related furniture item, see here for images for "meuble vasque":

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="meuble vasque"&source=lnm...

Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 10:36
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 50
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks a lot, Conor. This makes sense.... de-installing, removing, and taking it to the dump/landfill. So, just to clarify, here, "évacuation" would mean actually removing all of the hardware from the person's house?

Asker: Thanks, Conor!

Asker: Many thanks to you, Conor and to everyone.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yelena Perel: yes, it is neither "drain pipe" nor "drainage system": otherwise it couldn't be included in the list of maintenance work ("..., ... et ..."). évacuation could also mean "draining off", but I agree with Conor that here it means removal
12 mins
  -> Thanks Yelena!
agree  Tony M: Yes, 'clearing off site' etc.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Tony! I like Scott's suggestion, "disposal".
agree  Samuël Buysschaert
5 hrs
  -> Thanks Samuël!
agree  Daryo: or any other synonym along the lines of "taking this builder's rubbish off site / out of the property"
18 hrs
  -> Thanks Daryo!
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