maintenance

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
maintenance

Plural
maintenances

maintenance (plural maintenances)

  1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
  2. (law) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.

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keeping a machine in service
tort
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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From verb maintenir, maintenoir "to maintain" and suffix -ance.

[edit] Noun

maintenance f. (plural maintenances)

  1. maintenance
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