Synonyms for maintenance
ˈmeɪn tə nənsmain·te·nance

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1. maintenance

   Synonyms:
   livelihood, defence, subsistence, means of support

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Law
   • Support
   • Support Payment
   • Wrongdoing

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. maintenancenoun

   Synonyms:
   support, vindication, justification, defence; preservation

2. maintenancenoun

   Synonyms:
   sustenance, food, victuals, provisions, BREAD, livelihood, subsistence

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1. maintenancenoun

   Synonyms:
   support, sustenance

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1. 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

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How to use maintenance in a sentence?

1. Silverio Capone:

   Benito Mussolini also got angry, walking through Ponza's alleys Benito Mussolini noticed that funds allocated by Benito Mussolini government for roads maintenance and running water had never been spent. Deep down Benito Mussolini was a real statesman.

2. Katy Martin:

   All of our winners are responsible for incrementally pushing the envelope in terms of what type of biotechnology we have available to us to use in space in the moment, the vision we work toward is making smaller, more portable, more flexible, lower maintenance laboratory equipment that can be taken to the moon and Mars.

3. Mohammed Qobati:

   We have done preliminary refurbishment work on the airport from outside, and now we are working on maintenance work inside the terminal, we expect the work to be completed within weeks and we hope that commercial flights would return then.

4. Andrew Dempster:

   Beidou was obviously designed a few decades after GPS, so it has had the benefit of learning from the GPS experience, it has some signals that have higher bandwidth, giving better accuracy. It has fewer orbit planes for the satellites, making constellation maintenance easier.

5. Deutsche Bank:

   A sustainable rise in OPEC production may be just around the corner, and ... the rally may pause, maintenance in the UAE at fields ... is scheduled to end in April, implying a rise from current production of 2.73 million barrels per day (bpd) to the previous 2.91 million bpd production rate in May.