maintenance
Meaning of maintenance
- the process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved.
we support local initiatives that ensure the maintenance of community spirit
- financial support provided for a person's living expenses.
a chance of going to university with fees and maintenance paid
- the offence of aiding a party in a legal action without lawful cause.
Middle English (in the sense ‘aiding a party in a legal action without lawful cause’): from Old French, from maintenir (see maintain).
Information about maintenance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of maintenance is: maintenances.
- Languages in which maintenance is used:
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Hyphenation of maintenance
main-te-nance
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- maintenance is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
maintenance synonyms
Meaning care:
Meaning alimony:
Meaning sustenance:
sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, upkeep
Meaning the action of preserving something:
Meaning preservation, protection, or restoration of the natural environment and of wildlife:
Meaning the action of carrying something on over time or the state of being carried on:
Meaning the state of remaining in existence or operation:
Meaning the unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over time:
Meaning extension of the duration of something:
Meaning the continuation or preservation of a situation, idea, etc:
Meaning the action or process of nurturing someone or something:
Meaning give food to:
Meaning provide funding for (a person or enterprise):
Meaning bearing all or part of the weight of something:
Meaning material assistance:
Meaning the action or fact of owning, maintaining, or protecting something:
Meaning the provision of nourishment or other necessities of life:
Meaning a provision made for the maintenance of the younger children of kings and princes, consisting of a gift of land, an official position, or money:
Meaning a pension or provision for maintenance, especially as given regularly by a religious house:
maintenance antonyms
Meaning a mechanical failure:
Meaning the state of being uncared for:
Translation of maintenance
- Spanish: mantenimiento, manutención
- German: Instandhaltung, Alimente
- French: maintenance
- Portuguese: manutenção
- Italian: manutenzione, alimenti
Words that rhyme with maintenance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance