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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)

  1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
  2. (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.
  3. (law, Britain) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
  4. (law) Child support.
  5. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
  6. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. Real being; existence.
    • (Can we date this quote by Stillingfleet and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.
  2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
  3. Inherency.
  4. Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
    • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.
  5. (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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