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. Max Henderson:

   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.

2. Fermin Ramirez:

   When we open up escalators for maintenance, there is always urine.

3. Ingo Gerhartz:

   Aircraft are grounded due to a lack of spare parts, or they aren't even on site since they're off for maintenance by the industry.

4. Claudio Semini:

   For us, it was natural to start to design also an arm, and then the plan is to build two arms and have them both on the robot to create a 'centaur' style of robot. And with the two arms the robot can be deployed to the real area where it needs to do any maintenance work or turn a valve in a rescue scenario or pick up a sample in a contaminated area or just clean up radioactive materials; there's a lot of potential future applications where manipulation is really important.

5. Ellen Molekane:

   The maintenance of national security in general and the conduct of intelligence work, in particular, is not the Cold War era, cloak-and-dagger myth which is continuously advanced by the popular media.