maintenance
/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/ noun B1- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- Child support.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
- Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features. · a maintenance release; a maintenance version
Plural maintenances
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A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance.
A CERTAIN MAN, detained by a storm in his country house, first of all killed his sheep, and then his goats, for the maintenance of his household.
The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance.
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