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# maintenance — English to French

How English *maintenance* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [maintenance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/maintenance/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: maintenance (103 096), maintenances (6). By style: everyday 14 · parliamentary 1 189 · legal and administrative 15 127 · UN documents 86 772.

## entretien

Used about 41 703 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 218 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 748 · UN documents ≈ 35 730).

- The company decided to farm out the **maintenance** to a subcontractor.
  L'entreprise a décidé de confier l'**entretien** à un sous-traitant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9765383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9765383) [\#9765384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9765384))

- It provides for the use and recognition of each other's repair and **maintenance** facilities.
  L'accord permet l'utilisation et la reconnaissance réciproques des installations de réparation et d'**entretien** agréées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1585561)

- **Maintenance** services for heating systems
  Services d'**entretien** pour les systèmes de chauffage
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3985037)

- Computer and printer **maintenance**
  **Entretien** des ordinateurs et des imprimantes
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11398477)

- Regular **maintenance** should keep the machine in good working order.
  Un **entretien** régulier devrait maintenir la machine en bon état de marche.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11658211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11658211) [\#12351721](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12351721))

## maintenance

Used about 21 282 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 218 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 748 · UN documents ≈ 15 313).

- He was in charge of **maintenance** at the chocolate factory.
  Il était chef de la **maintenance** dans l'usine de chocolat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1135448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1135448) [\#8976893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8976893))

- Even in these times of economic crisis, we really cannot skimp on **maintenance** and supervision.
  Même en ces temps de crise économique, nous ne pouvons pas économiser sur la **maintenance** et la surveillance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1418528)

- Implementation of the **maintenance**
  Mise en œuvre de la **maintenance**
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1361023)

- - National Airport Construction and **Maintenance** Program
  Le Programme de **maintenance** et de construction des aéroports nationaux
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 15969245)

- Our server will be offline on October 20th for scheduled **maintenance**.
  Nos serveurs seront hors ligne le 20 octobre pour la **maintenance** prévue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3402632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3402632) [\#6668658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6668658))

## maintien

Used about 16 146 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 413 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 118 · UN documents ≈ 13 611).

- The mobile guard serves in mobile gendarmerie squadrons, specializing in public order **maintenance**.
  Le garde mobile est affecté aux escadrons de gendarmerie mobile, spécialisés dans le **maintien** de l’ordre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362931) [\#13362929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362929))

- Firstly there is the **maintenance** of the principle of relative stability.
  Tout d'abord, le **maintien** du principe de la stabilité relative.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1962750)

- Practices equivalent to **maintenance** of permanent grassland:
  Pratiques équivalentes au **maintien** des prairies permanentes:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3073274)

- 6547th meeting **Maintenance** of international peace and security
  6547e séance **Maintien** de la paix et de la sécurité internationales
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 24939824)

- Like the main score of a fascinatingly complex symphony, the genome contains the instructions for the development and **maintenance** of organisms.
  Comme la partition principale d'une symphonie d'une fascinante complexité, le génome contient les instructions pour le développement et le **maintien** des organismes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10584120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10584120) [\#10584127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10584127))

## sécurité

Used about 1 701 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 701).

- The implementation of disarmament and non-proliferation measures continues to be a major challenge in the **maintenance** of international peace and security.
  Les mesures de désarmement et de non-prolifération sont insuffisantes, ce qui constitue une grave menace pour la paix et la **sécurité** internationales.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9988537)

## exploitation

Used about 24 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 24).

- They are unconvinced by the measures, which call on them to pay yet again for the rescue of capital profits and the **maintenance** of the system of exploitation.
  Ils sont sceptiques face à ces mesures, qui leur demandent de payer à nouveau pour sauver les profits du capital et maintenir le système d'**exploitation**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1130292)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- These types of restriction have as their goal the artificial **maintenance** of high prices.
  Ces types de restrictions ont pour objectif de maintenir les prix artificiellement haut.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 747771)

- I welcome the restated commitment of President Clinton to ratify this treaty as well as his renewed commitment to the **maintenance** of the US moratorium on nuclear testing.
  Je me réjouis que le président Clinton ait réaffirmé sa volonté de le ratifier et de maintenir le moratoire américain sur les essais nucléaires.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2021496)

- Moreover, if two or more Member States wish to create an internal area of joint resale price **maintenance** in respect of books, good luck to them.
  De même, si deux ou plusieurs États membres souhaitent créer une zone interne de prix de revente fixe, qu' ils le fassent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2049756)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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