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Noun: maintenance  meyn-tu-nun(t)s
  1. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
    "he wrote the manual on car maintenance";
    - care, upkeep
  2. Means of supporting a family or group
  3. Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
    - alimony
  4. The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
    "they were in want of maintenance";
    - sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, upkeep
    "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit";
    - criminal maintenance

Derived forms: maintenances

Type of: actus reus, bread and butter, fix, fixing, fixture, keep, livelihood, living, mend, mending, misconduct, repair, reparation, support, support payment, sustenance, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct

Encyclopedia: Maintenance, repair, and operations