prestation
- noun
- /prɛˈsteɪʃən/
- Formal
- The company provided a yearly prestation of funds to support local charities.
- prestations and counterprestations
- prestations of bridewealth
- prestations of pork
Examples
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Prestations in the form of bridewealth marked the beginning of an affinal relationship between the two households.
Academic text (1993) -
As will be shown, colonial administrators condemned Samoan formal prestations and attempted to outlaw them.
Academic text (1991) -
Thus, the prestation of a gift is a means of establishing partnership between self and other.
Academic text (1990) -
The reciprocal flow of welfare, fertility, and so on is much greater than the actual prestation or offering.
Academic text (1990) -
Wealth is raised for prestations and exchange networks built by individual strategies and personal networks.
Academic text (1990) -
On the basis of this initial transaction, households formed exchange relationships and sustained them through prestations and counterprestations.
Academic text (1993) -
The question then is whether Timugon prestations also symbolize the nature of the alliance tie.
Academic text (1993) -
Apart from the ritualized prestations of rice and water buffalo, partners routinely exchange labor support.
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For society as a whole, the prestations with the accompanying feasts serve to create and preserve both unity and cohesion.
Academic text (1993) -
Like a ritual symbol, generalized symbolic media link the level of individual transactions or prestations with the level of the collective normative order.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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To pay for goods or services before you receive them
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Prestation comes from the old Latin word praestare, made of prae- 'before' and stare 'to stand', and it once meant 'to stand forward to give or do something'. So a prestation is something you give as a duty, like a required payment, service, or gift.