Maintenance

Quick meaning: Maintenance is a noun meaning Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.

Meaning

Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.

More Meanings

1. (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
2. (law) Child support.
3. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
4. (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
5. (Philippines, medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
6. (software engineering, attributive) Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
7. (law) 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.

Example Sentences

a maintenance release; a maintenance version

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.

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.

Word Forms

• maintenances

Synonyms for maintenance

Depending on context, synonyms include sustenance, alimony, sustainment, sustentation, upkeep, care.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include upkeep, sustenance, sustainment, sustentation, alimony, care.

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