prestation

From Latin praestatio (“a performing, paying”), from praestare: compare French prestation.

• IPA^(key): /pɹɛsˈteɪʃən/

prestation

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A payment of money; a toll or duty.
2. (UK, law, obsolete) The rendering of a service^[1]
3. (sociology, anthropology) A gift in the context of a non-market society; a giving that takes place in a non-economic sphere

• “prestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prestation, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• patronites, reptations, tritanopes

• præstation (obsolete)

From Latin praestātiōnem, from the verb praestare, from prae (“in front of”) + stare (“to stand”).

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/
• Hyphenation: pres‧ta‧tion

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prestation f (plural prestations)

1. financial payment, benefit

   Dans tous les cas, on accorde à l'assuré une seule prestation par mutilation.

   In any case, the beneficiary shall receive one benefit per dismemberment.

2. service
3. (finance) loan
4. (insurance) cover
5. performance

   Je pense que l'on a réalisé une bonne prestation aujourd'hui.

   I think we put on a good performance today.

• prestation de serment

• prestataire

• → Dutch: prestatie

• “prestation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

prestation c

1. performance, achievement; what one has managed to perform or do (often in the context of a competition)

• prestationsförmåga
• prestationsångest

• prestera