What is another word for maintenance?
Synonyms for maintenance
ˈmeɪn tə nənsmain·te·nance
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
maintenance
Synonyms:
livelihood, defence, subsistence, means of support
Princeton's WordNet
care, maintenance, upkeepnoun
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
"he wrote the manual on car care"
Synonyms:
sustentation, sustainment, criminal maintenance, aid, tending, upkeep, precaution, forethought, caution, concern, sustenance, charge, tutelage, guardianship, alimony, attention, care, fearmaintenancenoun
means of maintenance of a family or group
Synonyms:
care, upkeep, alimony, sustenance, sustentation, criminal maintenance, sustainmentalimony, maintenancenoun
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Synonyms:
sustentation, sustenance, upkeep, alimony, sustainment, care, criminal maintenancesustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeepnoun
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
"they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
Synonyms:
sustentation, sustainment, care, nutrition, nutriment, keep, alimentation, upkeep, victuals, bread and butter, support, aliment, sustenance, criminal maintenance, living, alimony, nourishment, livelihoodmaintenance, criminal maintenancenoun
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
"unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
Synonyms:
sustentation, sustenance, upkeep, alimony, sustainment, care, criminal maintenance
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
maintenancenoun
Synonyms:
support, vindication, justification, defence; preservationmaintenancenoun
Synonyms:
sustenance, food, victuals, provisions, BREAD, livelihood, subsistence
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
maintenancenoun
Synonyms:
support, sustenance
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "maintenance":
maintaining, maintain, alimony, upkeep, interview, preservation, conservation, servicing, repairs, retention, repair, maintained, continuation, keeping, peacekeeping, safeguarding, sustaining, entretien, peace-, maintien, serviceability, sustain, housekeeping, preserving, sustenance, continued, food, safeguard, upholding, preserve, retaining, sustainment
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#148 | support | |
#309 | care | |
#418 | food | |
#656 | keep | |
#742 | living | |
#1453 | charge | |
#1588 | maintenance | |
#1652 | aid | |
#1666 | repair | |
#1836 | attention | |
#2007 | continued | |
#2422 | maintain | |
#2455 | interview | |
#2755 | nutrition | |
#2788 | maintained | |
#2824 | fear | |
#2977 | conservation | |
#3054 | keeping | |
#3115 | concern | |
#4975 | maintaining | |
#4979 | defence | |
#6079 | repairs | |
#6460 | preservation | |
#6563 | retention | |
#6750 | preserve | |
#8403 | caution | |
#10843 | continuation | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#11308 | servicing | |
#12114 | preserving | |
#12790 | retaining | |
#15421 | safeguard | |
#15957 | housekeeping | |
#16100 | sustaining | |
#20379 | subsistence | |
#22376 | peacekeeping | |
#23358 | livelihood | |
#26890 | safeguarding | |
#28030 | guardianship | |
#29650 | tending | |
#32074 | precaution | |
#32668 | alimony | |
#34943 | upholding | |
#38470 | upkeep | |
#38674 | nourishment | |
#46056 | sustenance | |
#57712 | serviceability | |
#61398 | alimentation | |
#67940 | sustainment | |
#70743 | tutelage | |
#82432 | forethought | |
#94846 | entretien | |
#126039 | victuals | |
#135554 | aliment | |
#204750 | nutriment | |
#228872 | maintien |
How to use maintenance in a sentence?
These monthly variations happen because of factors such as arbitrage and which refineries are under maintenance, the target (for China) is for any single country to be below 20 percent in terms of market share. The Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, will continue to be the biggest supplier to China.
Immediate, unplanned shutdowns can lead to a loss of recently gathered data regarding diagnosis, clinical notes, shift handovers and other various setbacks for the medical staff, nearly all hospitals rely on the internet for connectivity with vendors and remote offices for processing information in critical departments such as radiology, pharmacy, medical device maintenance, patient document scanning and payment processing.
For a rental property I'd estimate 2% of the home's value per year on maintenance. So for a $200,000 house, expect to pay $4,000 per year on ‘stuff’ that the landlord pays for. That could include irregular big ticket items like replacing a deck, carpet or water heater.
The 787 is a very new aircraft and it’s probably hard for people outside of aviation to get their head around this, they were coming up to their 12-year check, the heaviest maintenance event that’s going to happen on these aircraft.
The least-white jobs are maintenance and security, and the whitest are curators. That points to some problems.
Translations for maintenance
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- صيانةArabic
- mantenimentCatalan, Valencian
- údržbaCzech
- forsvar, vedligeholdelse, hævdelseDanish
- Instandhaltung, WartungGerman
- bontenadoEsperanto
- mantenimientoSpanish
- hooldusEstonian
- kunnossapito, huoltoFinnish
- maintenance, entretienFrench
- coinneáilIrish
- cumail suas, gleidheadhScottish Gaelic
- mantementoGalician
- karbantartás, szervízHungarian
- pemeliharaanIndonesian
- manutenzioneItalian
- תחזוקהHebrew
- 維持, 保守Japanese
- 보존Korean
- خزمهتKurdish
- onderhoud, handhavingDutch
- vedlikeholdNorwegian
- konserwacjaPolish
- manutençãoPortuguese
- mentenantaRomanian
- обслу, ремонт, обслуживаниеRussian
- održavanjeSerbo-Croatian
- underhållSwedish
- பராமரிப்புTamil
- bakımTurkish
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