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maintenance
noun
1 maintenance
Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
synonyms: care, upkeep.
Roget 170:
agency,
operation,
force,
working,
strain,
function,
office,
maintenance,
exercise,
work,
swing,
play;
interworking†,
interaction;
procurement.
causation
etc.
153;
instrumentality
etc.
631;
influence
etc.
175;
action
etc.
(voluntary)
680;
modus operandi
etc.
627.
quickening power,
maintaining power,
sustaining power;
home stroke.
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Roget 670:
preservation;
safe-keeping;
conservation
etc.
(storage)
636;
maintenance,
support,
susteritation†,
conservatism;
vis conservatrix†;
salvation
etc.
(deliverance)
672.
[Means of preservation]
prophylaxis;
preserver,
preservative,
additive;
antibiotics,
antifungals [Med.],
biocide;
hygiastics†,
hygiantics†;
cover,
drugget†;
cordon sanitaire [Fr.];
canning;
ensilage;
tinned goods,
canned goods.
[Superstitious remedies]
snake oil,
spider webs,
cure-all;
laetrile;
charm
etc.
993.
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Roget 141:
stability
etc.
150;
quiescence
etc.
265;
obstinacy
etc.
606.
permanence,
persistence,
endurance;
durability;
standing,
status quo;
maintenance,
preservation,
conservation;
conservation;
law of the Medes and Persians;
standing dish.
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Dutch: onderhoud, verpleging, zorgen voor, voorzichtig, zorg, onderhoudswerk, onderhoudswerkzaamheden
2 maintenance
Means of maintenance of a family or group.
Polish: utrzymanie, byt
3 maintenance
Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated.
synonym: alimony.
Roget 803:
wealth,
riches,
fortune,
handsome fortune,
opulence,
affluence;
good circumstances,
easy circumstances;
independence;
competence
etc.
(sufficiency)
639;
solvency.
provision,
livelihood,
maintenance;
alimony,
dowry;
means,
resources,
substance;
property
etc.
780;
command of money.
income
etc.
810;
capital,
money;
round sum
etc.
(treasure)
800;
mint of money,
mine of wealth,
El Dorado [Sp.],
bonanza,
Pacatolus,
Golconda,
Potosi.
long purse,
full purse,
well lined purse,
heavy purse,
deep pockets;
purse of Fortunatus [Lat.];
embarras de richesses [Fr.].
pelf,
Mammon,
lucre,
filthy lucre;
loaves and fishes†.
rich man,
moneyed man,
warm man;
man of substance;
capitalist,
millionaire,
tippybob [Slang],
Nabob,
Croesus,
idas,
Plutus,
Dives,
Timon of Athens†;
Timocracy,
Plutocracy;
Danae.
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Dutch: alimentatiegeld, alimentatie, onderhoudskosten
Polish: alimenty
4 maintenance
The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence.
synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep.
Dutch: onderhoudsbedrijven, bestaan, kost, levensonderhoud, onderhoud, subsistentie
5 maintenance
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.
synonym: criminal maintenance.
Dutch: onderhoud, handhaving
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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