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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



... reason of the incurable defect mentioned above; and that, therefore, to sanction her sisterly, not her slavish connection, with a nation like the English, so eminent for those very qualities of order and self maintenance, in which she is so wanting, would be a work of as great charity in itself, as of mutual advantage to the parties concerned. For the rest, it should not be forgotten, that, however much the English occupation of Ireland may, through a series of causes, not to be foreseen ...
— Pope Adrian IV - An Historical Sketch • Richard Raby

... maintenance of Bayonne must at all times depend upon keeping possession of the citadel. The city lying upon a plain, and the castle standing upon an eminence immediately above it, it is clear that, were the latter taken, the former must either surrender or be speedily reduced to ...
— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig

... life; and at her death it was to become Violet's property. Violet was not to come of age until she was twenty-five, and in the meantime her mother was to be her sole guardian, and absolute mistress of everything. There was no question of an allowance for the maintenance of the heiress, no question as to the accumulation of income. Everything was to belong to Mrs. Tempest till Violet came of age. She had only to educate and maintain her daughter in whatever manner she might think ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon

... as we are married. The vow is upon us, and in the force of that vow, we walk all our days. All we have to do is to remember day by day that we are wholly the Lord's, and see to it that nothing is taken from the altar. Those who have kept their consecration complete should testify to its maintenance upon all suitable occasions, and never deny it by word, ...
— The Theology of Holiness • Dougan Clark

... back in his antique swivel chair, locked his hands behind his head, elevated his long legs luxuriously, and crossed his feet upon the fourth volume of the American and English Encyclopedia of Law, which lay open upon the desk at Champerty and Maintenance. Even in this inelegant and relaxed posture he somehow managed to maintain the air of picturesque dignity which always made his tall, ungainly figure noticeable in any courtroom. Indubitably Mr. Ephraim Tutt suggested a past ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train


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