Maintenance - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated (syn: alimony)
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence (syn: sustenance, sustentation, upkeep)
- 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
Extra examples
The building has suffered from years of poor maintenance.
He could never have appealed to the authority of Paul in maintenance of his own peculiar opinions.
The caretaker is responsible for the maintenance of the school buildings.
The theatres were closed on Saturday and Sunday for routine maintenance.
Engineers are carrying out essential maintenance work on the main line to Cambridge.
The purpose of the UN is the maintenance of international peace and security.
The maintenance of a firm currency plays an important part in the battle against inflation.
They have to find the fathers who abandon their children and make them pay maintenance.
It is a paradox that computers need maintenance so often, since they are meant to save people time.
A woman is looked upon as demeaning herself, if she gains a maintenance by her needle. (S. Richardson)
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