maintenance

Signification (Anglais)

1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
2. 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.
3. Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
4. Child support.
5. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
6. The natural process which keeps an organism alive.

Concepts

entretien

maintenance

maintien

tenue

conservation

pension alimentaire

soutien

réparation

garde

appui

agencement

aménagement

préservation

mise au point

réglage

maintien en condition

soutien MEC

actualisation

obligation alimentaire

aliment

soutènement

fixage

raccommodage

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Phrases

The tasks of maintenance and operations were assigned to the whites .

Les tâches de maintenance et d'opérations ont été attribuées aux Blancs.

Maintenance tasks such as mowing and plowing were performed by the city .

Des tâches d'entretien telles que la tonte et le labour ont été effectuées par la ville.