Antonyms for maintenance
ˈmeɪn tə nənsmain·te·nance

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1. maintenance

   Synonyms:
   livelihood, defence, subsistence, means of support

Matched Categories

1. • Law
   • Support
   • Support Payment
   • Wrongdoing

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1. 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, fear

2. maintenancenoun

   means of maintenance of a family or group

   Synonyms:
   care, upkeep, alimony, sustenance, sustentation, criminal maintenance, sustainment

3. alimony, maintenancenoun

   court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

   Synonyms:
   sustentation, sustenance, upkeep, alimony, sustainment, care, criminal maintenance

4. sustenance, 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, livelihood

5. maintenance, 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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1. maintenancenoun

   Synonyms:
   support, sustenance

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1. neglect

   it changes something

   i had a neglect of school

   Submitted by 5119982 on October 27, 2020  

How to use maintenance in a sentence?

1. Yorli Correa:

   They should at least raise the ticket price to pay for maintenance, at rush hour at 7 or 8 a.m. and in the afternoon it is a catastrophe.

2. Catherine Sandoval:

   If you change to municipal control without changing the underlying dynamics of the maintenance and operation of the utility and its transmission network, you haven't really solved the problem.

3. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   We are actively discussing the maintenance of and the extension of the sanctions regime with the Germans, of course they (the Germans) want to explore the opportunity that tomorrow's meeting, if it goes ahead, may offer.

4. Comptroller Scott Stringer:

   With every missed maintenance check, the safety risk of undisclosed bike defects increases.

5. Manon Stuart:

   Our maintenance personnel in Montreal are conducting a thorough inspection of the aircraft to determine the cause and proceed with the necessary repairs.

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