repairment

English

Etymology

Mid 19th century, from repair +‎ -ment. Compare Middle English repairment, repeirement, repeyrement (a callus at the fracture of a bone; a repair of a fracture), after Latin reparāmentum.[1]

Noun

repairment (countable and uncountable, plural repairments)

  1. The act of repairing.

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ repairment, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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