maintenance

Noun
  1. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order (synset 100268366)
    "he wrote the manual on car care"
    is a type of: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation - the act of putting something in working order again
    subtypes:
    same as: care, upkeep
  2. Means of maintenance of a family or group (synset 113387484)
    is a type of: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenance - the financial means whereby one lives
  3. Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated (synset 113304643)
    is a type of: support payment - a payment made by one person for the support of another
    same as: alimony
  4. The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence (synset 101218681)
    "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
    is a type of: support - the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
    same as: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep
  5. 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 (synset 100767144)
    "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a type of: actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct - activity that transgresses moral or civil law
    same as: criminal maintenance

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