整備
Meaning in Englishmaintenance, overhaul
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What it means
整備 means maintenance and servicing to keep equipment, vehicles, or systems in proper working order. It covers routine inspections, adjustments, repairs, and readiness activities across assets.
Main meanings
- Routine maintenance and servicing of equipment, vehicles, or facilities to prevent failures.
- Repair work or overhauls when components degrade or fail, including replacement of parts and adjustments.
- Preparatory or readiness work, such as organizing infrastructure, plans, or IT environments to be usable.
- Used in phrases like 整備済み to describe a serviced or refurbished condition of goods.
How to use it
Used in technical, automotive, infrastructure, and IT contexts. In formal writing it refers to scheduled maintenance and upkeep; in everyday language 整備する describes performing maintenance or preparation. Common collocations include 車両の点検と整備を行う, 設備の定期整備, 路面の整備計画, ITシステムの保守・整備.
Variants and close terms
- 保守 hoshu — maintenance, preservation
- 修繕 shuzen — repair
- 点検 tenken — inspection
- 整備済み seibi-zumi — serviced or refurbished
Composition
- 整 — to put in order, arrange, regulate
- 備 — to prepare, provide, equip
- The combination conveys making something ready and orderly to ensure proper function
Etymology
整 means to put in order, adjust, or regulate, while 備 means to prepare, equip, or provide. The compound combines these ideas, and its pronunciation seibi comes from the on'yomi readings sei + bi.
Origin
In the Meiji period and subsequent modernization, the term 整備 became common in industrial and technical contexts to describe planned maintenance of machinery, vehicles, and infrastructure, expanding from simple repairs to systematic upkeep and readiness.
Word class
noun, suru-verb (名詞・サ変動詞)