Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/, /ˈmeɪntɪnəns/, [ˈmẽɪ̃(n)ʔ(ə)nəns]
Noun
maintenance (usually uncountable, plural maintenances)
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down.
- (law) 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.
- (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (law) Child support.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
Translations
keeping a machine or system in service
— see also care
- Arabic: صِيَانَة f (ṣiyāna)
- Armenian: սպասարկում (hy) (spasarkum)
- Azerbaijani: qulluq
- Bulgarian: поддръ́жка (bg) f (poddrǎ́žka)
- Catalan: manteniment (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保養/保养 (zh) (bǎoyǎng), 維持/维持 (zh) (wéichí), 保守 (zh) (bǎoshǒu)
- Czech: údržba (cs) f, obsluha (cs) f
- Danish: vedligeholdelse c, service (da) n
- Dutch: onderhoud (nl) n, handhaving (nl) f
- Esperanto: bontenado
- Estonian: hooldus
- Finnish: kunnossapito (fi)
- French: entretien (fr) m, maintenance (fr) f
- Galician: mantemento (gl) m
- Georgian: ტექნიკური მომსახურება (ṭekniḳuri momsaxureba)
- German: Instandhaltung (de) f, Wartung (de) f
- Hindi: रखरखाव m (rakharkhāv)
- Hungarian: szerviz (hu), karbantartás (hu)
- Icelandic: viðhald n
- Indonesian: perawatan (id), pemeliharaan (id)
- Irish: coinneáil f
- Italian: manutenzione (it) f
- Japanese: 保守 (ja) (ほしゅ, hoshu), 維持 (ja) (いじ, iji), メンテナンス (ja) (mentenansu)
- Korean: 보존(保存) (ko) (bojon), 유지(維持) (ko) (yuji)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: خزمەت (xizmet)
- Latin: tuitiō f
- Macedonian: одржување n (održuvanje)
- Malay: penyenggaraan
- Malayalam: പരിപാലനം (ml) (paripālanaṁ)
- Marathi: डागडुजी f (ḍāgḍujī), देखरेख f (dekhrekh)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vedlikehold n
- Nynorsk: vedlikehald n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: نِگَهْداری (fa) (negahdâri)
- Polish: konserwacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: manutenção (pt) f
- Russian: обслу́живание (ru) n (obslúživanije), ремо́нт (ru) m (remónt), подде́ржка (ru) f (poddéržka)
- Scottish Gaelic: gleidheadh m, cumail suas f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: одржа́вање n
- Roman: održávanje n
- Slovak: údržba f, obsluha f
- Spanish: mantenimiento (es) m
- Swahili: matengenezo class 6
- Swedish: underhåll (sv) n
- Tagalog: panataman
- Tajik: нигоҳдорӣ (nigohdori)
- Turkish: bakım (tr)
- Ukrainian: обслуго́вування (uk) n (obsluhóvuvannja), ремо́нт m (remónt), до́гляд m (dóhljad), підтри́мка f (pidtrýmka)
- Vietnamese: bảo trì (vi), bảo dưỡng
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tort
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 助訟/助讼 (zo6 zung6)
- Mandarin: 助訟/助讼 (zhùsòng)
- Danish: hævdelse c, forsvar n
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legal: payment made to a spouse after a divorce
— see alimony
money to provide for the means of living
process of keeping an organism alive
Translations to be checked
Further reading
- “maintenance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “maintenance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “maintenance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.