maintenance
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenere (“to hold in the hand”).
Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.
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Noun [edit]
maintenance (plural maintenances)
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
- (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.
- (law) A provision ordered to be made by way of periodical payments or a lump sum, as after a divorce for a spouse.
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Translations [edit]
keeping a machine in service
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External links [edit]
- maintenance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- maintenance in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- maintenance at OneLook Dictionary Search
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From verb maintenir, maintenoir "to maintain" and suffix -ance.
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Noun [edit]
maintenance f (plural maintenances)
