Meaning of maintenance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
   uncountable, usually
2. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
3. (payments) child support
4. A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence 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.
   uncountable, usually
5. A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence 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
6. The means needed to support life:alimentation, alimony, bread, bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, subsistence, support, sustenance, upkeep.
7. Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
   UK, uncountable, usually
8. Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce
9. Child support
10. mantenimiento; [feeding] alimentación; sostén, apoyo; [of a building] conservación, mantenimiento.
11. Child support.
    uncountable, usually
12. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family
13. The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained: nutrients essential to the maintenance of good health.
14. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
    uncountable, usually
15. The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep: car maintenance.
16. The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
    uncountable, usually
17. Provision of support or livelihood: took over the maintenance of her family.
18. Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
    Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis, uncountable, usually
19. Law The wrongful aiding of another in the pursuit or defense of a lawsuit, especially in jurisdictions where nonparties are legally prohibited to provide financial assistance.
    Law
20. Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
    attributive, uncountable, usually
21. the act of maintaining or the state of being maintained
22. a means of support; livelihood
23. (modifier) of or relating to the maintaining of buildings, machinery, etc: maintenance man.
    modifier

Equivalents

Examples

“They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down.”

“From Pond to Pond he roamed, from moor to moor; / Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance: / And in this way he gained an honest maintenance.”

“a maintenance release; a maintenance version”

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