Main entry: maintenance, upkeep, care
Definition: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
Usage: he wrote the manual on car care
Main entry: criminal maintenance, maintenance
Definition: 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
Usage: unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
Main entry: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep, maintenance
Definition: the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
Usage: they were in want of sustenance; fishing was their main sustainment
Main entry: maintenance, alimony
Definition: court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Main entry: maintenance
Definition: means of maintenance of a family or group