Definition of Maintenance

1. Noun. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order. "He wrote the manual on car care"


2. Noun. Means of maintenance of a family or group.
Generic synonyms: Bread And Butter, Keep, Livelihood, Living, Support, Sustenance
Derivative terms: Maintain

3. Noun. Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated.
Exact synonyms: Alimony
Generic synonyms: Support Payment

4. Noun. The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence. "Fishing was their main sustainment"
Exact synonyms: Sustainment, Sustenance, Sustentation, Upkeep
Generic synonyms: Support
Derivative terms: Maintain, Sustain, Sustain, Sustentacular

5. Noun. The unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community. "Unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
Exact synonyms: Criminal Maintenance
Generic synonyms: Actus Reus, Misconduct, Wrongdoing, Wrongful Conduct
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Definition of Maintenance

1. n. The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

Definition of Maintenance

1. Noun. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service ¹

2. Noun. (legal) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Maintenance

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Maintenance

1. The upkeep of property or equipment. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maintenance

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maintainability
maintainable
maintained
maintainence
maintainer
maintainers
maintainership
maintainest
maintaineth
maintaining
maintainor
maintainors
maintains
maintenance (current term)
maintenance dose
maintenance drug therapy
maintenance man
maintenance medication
maintenance staff
maintenance therapy
maintenance treatment
maintenance window
maintenance windows
maintenances
maintenaunce
maintop
maintopmast
maintopmasts

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