prestation

English

Etymology

Latin praestatio (“a performing, paying”), from praestare: compare French prestation.

Noun

prestation

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A payment of money; a toll or duty.
2. (UK, law, obsolete) The rendering of a service.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• patronites, reptations, tritanopes

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French

Alternative forms

• præstation (obsolete)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praestatio, from the verb praestare, from prae (“in front of”) + stare (“to stand”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

prestation f (plural prestations)

1. service
2. (finance) loan
3. (insurance) cover
4. performance

   Je pense que l’on a réalisé une bonne prestation aujourd’hui.

   I think we put in a good performance today.

Related terms

• prestataire

Further reading

• “prestation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Swedish

Noun

prestation c

1. achievement; what one has managed to perform or do (often in the context of a competition)

Declension

Declension of prestation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	prestation	prestationen	prestationer	prestationerna
Genitive	prestations	prestationens	prestationers	prestationernas

Related terms

• prestera