different between janitorial vs maintenance
janitorial
English
Etymology
janitor +? -ial
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?æn.??t???.i.?l/
Adjective
janitorial (comparative more janitorial, superlative most janitorial)
- Of or pertaining to a janitor.
Translations
janitorial From the web:
- what janitorial means
- what's janitorial services
- what janitorial services mean
- what is janitorial work
- what is janitorial experience
- what is janitorial cleaning
- what does janitorial services include
- what are janitorial supplies
maintenance
English
Etymology
From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus ten?re (“to hold in the hand”). Surface analysis is 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?me?nt(?)n?ns/, /?me?nt?n?ns/
Noun
maintenance (usually uncountable, plural maintenances)
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) A tort 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, Britain) 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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- maintenance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- maintenance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- maintenance at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
maintenir (“to maintain”) +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??t.n??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
maintenance f (plural maintenances)
- maintenance
Further reading
- “maintenance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
maintenance From the web:
- what maintenance does a tesla need
- what maintenance does my car need
- what maintenance does an electric car need
- what maintenance does a car need
- what maintenance can a pilot perform
- what maintenance does a furnace need
- what maintenance is required for a gas fireplace
- what maintenance is required for a tankless water heater
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- janitorial vs maintenance
- auxiliary vs nonauxiliary
- auxiliary vs accessorially
- auxiliary vs ally
- auxiliary vs auxiliatory
- affiliated vs auxiliary
- incidental vs auxiliary
- axiliary vs auxiliary
- auxilliary vs auxiliary
- auxiliary vs accessorily
- auxiliary vs taxonomy
- entrepreneurship vs soleproprietorship
- soleproprietorship vs corporation
- propraetorships vs proprietorships
- soleproprietorship vs partnership
- otioseness vs taxonomy
- patronymic vs phillipson
- phillips vs taxonomy
- terms vs phillipsite
- mineral vs phillipsite