maintenance
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in serviceActions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
» Our website is offline for scheduled maintenance.
Meaning
7 senses(uncountable, usually)Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
Instandhaltung, Wartung
обслу́живаниеobslúživanije, ремо́нтremónt, подде́ржкаpoddéržka
обслуго́вуванняobsluhóvuvannja, ремо́нтremónt, до́глядdóhljad
(uncountable, usually)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.
(UK, uncountable, usually)Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
(uncountable, usually)Child support.
(uncountable, usually)Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
Unterhalt
содержа́ниеsoderžánije, подде́ржкаpoddéržka
утри́манняutrýmannja
(uncountable, usually)The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
(attributive, uncountable, usually)Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
a maintenance release; a maintenance version
Examples
77 sentencesOur website is offline for scheduled maintenance.
Our server will be offline on October 20th for scheduled maintenance.
ruНаш сервер будет недоступен 20 октября из-за планового технического обслуживания.
deUnser Server wird am 20. Oktober aufgrund planmäßiger Wartungsarbeiten nicht am Netz sein.
Getting a sports car is easy, compared to the maintenance one must do on it.
The maintenance of the house costs a lot.
Утримання будинку обходиться в копієчку.
ruСодержание дома обходится дорого.
The website was down for maintenance.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
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Origin
From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from LatinFrom Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, maintain + -ance.
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Forms
plural: maintenances| Singular | maintenance |
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uncountable
Synonyms
7 synonyms- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community:criminal maintenance
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order:careupkeep
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated:alimony
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence:sustenancesustentationsustainmentupkeep
Word family
18 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable