maintenance
noun
adjective
Origin of maintenance
Synonym study
Related Words for maintenance
supply, conservation, upkeep, preservation, care, aliment, continuation, bacon, livelihood, alimony, living, alimentation, resources, food, subsistence, provision, bread, continuance, wherewithal, keepingExamples from the Web for maintenance
Contemporary Examples of maintenance
If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
Further, there are maintenance crews who have to fix those drones.
But they have high fixed costs—overhead, maintenance, staff, and power.
After construction, the pipeline would employ about 50 people, primarily for maintenance.
Pulling engineers from the Super Hornet program then led to a maintenance backlog on that program too, sources said.
Historical Examples of maintenance
The maximum that could be drawn for maintenance was not less than seventy per cent.
FreelandTheodor Hertzka
As it is, I look to the Excise scheme as a certainty of maintenance; a maintenance!
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
Sergeant Walters and the rest of the maintenance crew were standing there.
Dogfight--1973Dallas McCord Reynolds
And if I am to estimate the penalty fairly, I should say that maintenance in the Prytaneum is the just return.
ApologyPlato
The Phenicians were very much in earnest about the maintenance of state and of religion.
History of ReligionAllan Menzies