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Maintenance   /mˈeɪntənəns/  /mˈeɪntnəns/   Listen
Maintenance

noun
1.
Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.  Synonyms: 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.  Synonym: alimony.
4.
The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence.  Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep.  "Fishing was their main sustainment"
5.
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.  Synonym: criminal maintenance.



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"Maintenance" Quotes from Famous Books



... interested than the United States in the maintenance of peace; yet, even on the principle of economy, we may argue in favor of a degree of preparation for war; for that calamity may best be averted by taking from foreign powers the temptation to interfere with us: all history showing that the justice and friendship of military states are but slender ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... There are Naval, Fisheries, and Marine branches, each with sub-branches of its own. Among the duties of the Marine branch are the following: the construction of lighthouses and fog-alarms, {176} the maintenance of lights and buoys, the building and maintenance of Dominion steamers, the consideration of all aids to navigation, the maintenance of the St Lawrence ship channel, the weather reports and forecasts, investigations into wrecks, steamboat inspection, ...
— All Afloat - A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways • William Wood

... neighborhood of Deerfield, my father in the family of judge Tod, the father of the late Governor Tod, of Ohio. His industry and independence of character were such, that I imagine his labor compensated fully for the expense of his maintenance. ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... withstand the kindness. She recounts the numerous duties that absorb her attention, the missions she has on hand, the means she uses to keep up an interest in them, the amount of funds necessary to their maintenance. A large portion of these funds she raises with her own energy. She will drag up the heathen world; she will drag down Satan. Furnishing Mrs. Swiggs with the address of the House of the Foreign Missions, in Centre street, she excuses herself. How superlatively happy she would be ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams

... magnet, one is impelled to make the ascent to the top—an easy ascent with its destination clearly marked by the Rotch Meteorological Observatory erected in 1884 by the late A. Lawrence Rotch of Milton, who bequeathed funds for its maintenance. It is now ...
— The Old Coast Road - From Boston to Plymouth • Agnes Rothery


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