English Explanatory Dictionary

maintenance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  7. Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
  8. Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.

Pronunciation

/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/ /ˈmeɪntɪnəns/ En-us-maintenance.ogg

Word forms

maintenance maintenances

Etymology

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.

Derived words

automaintenance cap of maintenance data maintenance facilities maintenance facility maintenance health maintenance organization high-maintenance low-maintenance maintenance-free maintenance hole maintenance margin maintenance medicine maintenance window nonmaintenance percussive maintenance postmaintenance premaintenance preventative maintenance separate maintenance telemaintenance undermaintenance

Translations

Arabic: صِيَانَة Armenian: սպասարկում Azerbaijani: qulluq Bulgarian: поддръ́жка Catalan: manteniment Chinese Mandarin: 保養 /保养 Chinese Mandarin: 維持 /维持 Chinese Mandarin: 保守 Czech: údržba Czech: obsluha Danish: vedligeholdelse Danish: service Dutch: onderhoud Dutch: handhaving Esperanto: bontenado Estonian: hooldus Finnish: kunnossapito French: entretien French: maintenance Galician: mantemento Georgian: ტექნიკური მომსახურება German: Instandhaltung German: Wartung Hindi: रख-रखाव Hungarian: szerviz Hungarian: karbantartás Icelandic: viðhald Indonesian: perawatan Indonesian: pemeliharaan Irish: coinneáil Italian: manutenzione Japanese: 保守 Japanese: 維持 Japanese: メンテナンス Korean: 보존 Korean: 유지 Central Kurdish: خزمەت Latin: tuitiō Macedonian: одржување Malay: penyenggaraan Malayalam: പരിപാലനം Marathi: डागडुजी Marathi: देखरेख Norwegian Bokmål: vedlikehold Norwegian Nynorsk: vedlikehald Iranian Persian: نِگَهْداری Polish: konserwacja Portuguese: manutenção Russian: обслу́живание Russian: ремо́нт Russian: подде́ржка Scottish Gaelic: gleidheadh Scottish Gaelic: cumail suas Serbo-Croatian: одржа́вање Serbo-Croatian: održávanje Slovak: údržba Slovak: obsluha Spanish: mantenimiento Spanish: manutención
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