maintenance
Significat (English)
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence 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.
- Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- Child support.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
Synonyms
living allowance
criminal maintenance
maintenance staff
manner of dress
act of retaining
duty period
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, maintain + -ance. Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.
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