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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).
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subsistence
English
Etymology
From Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). See subsist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?b?s?st?ns/
Noun
subsistence (countable and uncountable, plural subsistences)
- Real being; existence.
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- Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.
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- The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
- Inherency.
- Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
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- His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.
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- (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
Synonyms
- (real being): See also Thesaurus:existence
- (something required to stay alive): sustenance
- (theology): hypostasis
Related terms
- subsist
- subsistent
- subsistence economy
Translations
Further reading
- subsistence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- subsistence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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