MAINTENANCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does maintenance mean?
• MAINTENANCE (noun)
The noun MAINTENANCE has 5 senses:
1. activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
2. means of maintenance of a family or group
3. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
4. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
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
Familiarity information: MAINTENANCE used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• MAINTENANCE (noun)
Meaning:
Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
maintenance; upkeep; care
Context example:
he wrote the manual on car care
Hypernyms ("maintenance" is a kind of...):
fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation (the act of putting something in working order again)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maintenance"):
camera care (keeping a camera in good working order)
car care (keeping a car in good working order)
inspection and repair; overhaul; service (periodic maintenance on a car or machine)
pump priming (introducing water into a pump to improve the seal and start the water flowing)
scheduled maintenance (maintenance at a regularly scheduled time)
steam fitting (care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating)
Meaning:
Means of maintenance of a family or group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("maintenance" is a kind of...):
bread and butter; keep; livelihood; living; support; sustenance (the financial means whereby one lives)
Meaning:
Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
alimony; maintenance
Hypernyms ("maintenance" is a kind of...):
support payment (a payment made by one person for the support of another)
Meaning:
The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
sustentation; sustainment; upkeep; sustenance; maintenance
Context examples:
they were in want of sustenance / fishing was their main sustainment
Hypernyms ("maintenance" is a kind of...):
support (the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
criminal maintenance; maintenance
Context example:
unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
Hypernyms ("maintenance" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
