Dictionary Definition
maintenance
Noun
1 activity involved in maintaining something in
good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn:
care, upkeep]
2 means of maintenance of a family or group
3 court-ordered support paid by one spouse to
another after they are separated [syn: alimony]
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" [syn: sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, upkeep]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a Canada /ˈmeɪntɪnəns/
- /ˈmeɪntənəns/, /"meInt@n@ns/
Noun
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
keeping a machine in service
- Czech: údržba
- Danish: vedligeholdelse
- Finnish: huolto, kunnossapito
- Galician: mantemento
- Japanese: 保守, 維持
- Spanish: mantenimiento
- Portuguese: manutenção
tort
translations to be checked
- ttbc Dutch: onderhoud
- ttbc Norwegian: vedlikehold
- ttbc Romanian: întreţinere
- ttbc Swedish: underhåll
French
Noun
fr-noun fExtensive Definition
Maintenance may refer to:
- Non-technical maintenance:
- High-maintenance, slang expression
- Maintenance of an organism
- Child support or alimony, also called spousal support
- Maintenance as defined in champerty: assistance provided to a litigant by one who does not have a bona-fide interest in a lawsuit.
- Technical maintenance:
- General types of technical maintenance:
maintenance in German: Wartung
maintenance in Korean: 정비
maintenance in Dutch: Onderhoud
maintenance in Japanese: メンテナンス
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
TLC,
abidingness,
age, aid, alimentation, alimony, allowance, antiquity, backing, bottling up, bread, care, carriage, carrying, conservancy, conservation, conservationism,
constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, contribution, corking up,
daily bread, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duration, economic support,
endowment, endurance, environmental
conservation, extension, forest
conservation, forest management, holding, holding in, inhibition, keep, keeping, lastingness, lengthening, livelihood, living, locking in, long
standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintaining, manna, meat, moral support, mothering, nourishment, nurture, paying the bills,
perdurability,
perennation,
permanence, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, prehension, preserval, preservation, price
support, progress,
progression,
prolongation,
protection, protraction, provision, psychological
support, pursuance,
reliance, repetition, repression, retainment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, run, safekeeping, salt, salvage, salvation, saving, security blanket, soil
conservation, stability, standing, standing treat,
staying power, steadfastness, stipend, straight course, stream
conservation, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, supportive
relationship, supportive therapy, suppression, survival, survivance, sustained action,
sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tenacity, tender loving care,
treat, uninterrupted
course, unremittingness,
upholding, upkeep, water conservation,
way, wetlands conservation,
wildlife conservation