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maintenance
Found in thesaurus: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation, keep, livelihood, sustenance, bread and butter, support, living, support payment, wrongful conduct, actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing
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maintenance
n.
act of maintaining; upkeep, repairs; livelihood, means of support
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Maintenance
Maintenance may refer to:
Non-technical maintenance
- Alimony, also called maintenance in British English
- Child maintenance, also commonly called "child support"
- Champerty and maintenance, two related legal doctrines
- Feudal maintenance, system of funding armies
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maintenance
Noun
1. activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"
(synonym) care, upkeep
(hypernym) repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
(hyponym) camera care
(derivation) conserve, preserve, maintain, keep up
2. means of maintenance of a family or group
(hypernym) support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance
(derivation) sustain, keep, maintain
3. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
(synonym) alimony
(hypernym) support payment
4. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
(synonym) sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, upkeep
(hypernym) support
(derivation) sustain, keep, maintain
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maintenance
nf.
maintenance, upkeep, repairs
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maintenance
n.
údržba; péče; výživné
