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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?
I expect that with refinery maintenance peaking (in the U.S., Europe and Asia) in mid-April, that will push oil prices down.
We were told that some guys came in two vehicles dressed as officials in charge of repairs and maintenance of the gas pipelines and then used dynamite to blow up the gas line belonging to a subsidiary of (state energy firm) NNPC, unfortunately one of the lines was damaged. There are other lines that were not affected.
The French government have completely failed in terms of maintenance of security at Euro 2016, three days before the England-Russia match in Marseille, there were a huge amount of English supporters who were provoking our fans. They were insulting our country, our president and were throwing glasses of beer at us. They were fighting with the locals and the police. On June 11, they fought with Russian fans.
AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction.
As far as 12 of one model, 30 of another and 100 of a third … that’s another Wednesday morning in the British Army, ukraine is throwing smart people at their maintenance issues along with both true mechanized logistics and modern warehousing information technology to help keep track of parts with modern 2D and 3D bar coding on their spares packaging.
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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