UPKEEP
Dictionary entry overview: What does upkeep mean?
• UPKEEP (noun)
The noun UPKEEP has 2 senses:
1. activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
2. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
Familiarity information: UPKEEP used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UPKEEP (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 ("upkeep" 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 "upkeep"):
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:
The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
sustainment; sustentation; upkeep; sustenance; maintenance
Context examples:
they were in want of sustenance / fishing was their main sustainment
Hypernyms ("upkeep" is a kind of...):
support (the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities)
"You lose some... and you win some... and some you don't even bother to play". (English proverb)
"The nice apples are always eaten by nasty pigs." (Bulgarian proverb)
"When a tree falls, the monkeys scatter." (Chinese proverb)
"Those who had some shame are dead." (Egyptian proverb)
