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Etymology

From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, 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.

derived from maintenance
inherited from mayntenaunce

Definitions

1
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- 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.
A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not…
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.
Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after…
Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
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1. Child support.
2. 5
  Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
  - From Pond to Pond he roamed, from moor to moor; / Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance: / And in this way he gained an honest maintenance.
3. The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
4. Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
5. 8
  Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
  - a maintenance release; a maintenance version

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Derived

automaintenance, cap of maintenance, data maintenance, facilities maintenance, facility maintenance, health maintenance organization, high-maintenance, low-maintenance, maintenance-free, maintenance hole, maintenance margin, maintenance medicine, maintenance window, nonmaintenance, percussive maintenance, postmaintenance, premaintenance, preventative maintenance, separate maintenance, telemaintenance, undermaintenance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at maintenance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at maintenance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at maintenance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.