maintenance

Signification (Anglais)

1. (uncountable, usually) Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
2. (uncountable, usually) 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. (UK, uncountable, usually) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
4. (uncountable, usually) Child support.
5. (uncountable, usually) Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
6. (uncountable, usually) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
7. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis, uncountable, usually) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
8. (attributive, uncountable, usually) Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.

Concepts

entretien

maintenance

maintien

tenue

conservation

pension alimentaire

réparation

soutien

garde

💂

préservation

raccommodage

soutènement

maintien en condition

agencement

soutien MEC

aliment

🍽️

aménagement

appui

fixage

réglage

obligation alimentaire

actualisation

mise au point

Synonymes

upkeep

support

preservation

alimony

service

conservation

sustenance

retention

keeping

keep

repair

protection

repairs

subsistence

care

sustentation

observance

nourishment

servicing

livelihood

sustainment

storage

facelift

exploitation

custody

living

living allowance

backing

compliance

holding

control

fix-up

renovation

attendance

possession

mending

adherence

criminal maintenance

exploiting

cherishing

duty period

charge

ascendancy

dress

👗

defensibility

curing

bringing up

ascendance

administration

interview

Traductions

Instandhaltung

mantenimiento

manutenzione

Wartung

manutenção

manteniment

mantenimento

συντήρηση

Unterhaltung

onderhoud

Unterhalt

Erhaltung

Aufrechterhaltung

διατήρηση

behoud

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: mayntenaunce

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.

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.