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maintenance

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Word definitions for maintenance in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "bearing, deportment," from Old French maintenance "upkeep; shelter, protection,: from maintenir (see maintain ). Meaning "action of upholding or keeping in being" is from early 15c. "Action of providing a person with the necessities of life" ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maintenance \Main"te*nance\, n. [OF. maintenance. See Maintain .] The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication. Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his service, is granted to God. --South. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn: care , upkeep ] means of maintenance of a family or group court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated [syn: alimony ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Maintenance may refer to:

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES routine maintenance ▪ The system will be shut down overnight for routine maintenance. service/maintenance engineer COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE essential ▪ First, the Center wants no more new construction or ...

Usage examples of maintenance.

IT or human resources, the accounting department, or the maintenance staff, there are certain security policies that every employee of your company must know.

The Agronomy and Domestic Maintenance divisions wanted to keep all the buildings in one neat and tidy strip.

The Dorje-men hurried to an alternate maintenance node and tried the shaft there, but at the Amphora junction they were engulfed in another avalanche.

For the first, the technical directorate of an entire Atlantic Sub-Sea Petroleum Corporation district, and all wells, fields, pipelines, stills, storage fields, transport, fabrication and maintenance appertaining thereto.

Close beside him the wall annunciator was informing everyone in the hospital that there was contamination in the region of Lock Six, while below it the intercom unit was emitting red light and harsh buzzing sounds as somebody in Maintenance Division tried to find out whether or not the contaminated area was occupied.

Yet it is not immutable or unconditioned, for it depends on the continued maintenance of attentional stability and vividness.

For his part, Drehkos had then been well content to accept the baronetcy which was the patrimony of a second son of his sept of Clan Daiviz and the very munificent maintenance income which the new komees generously and most unexpectedly offered to furnish his brother until he was well married or had otherwise made his fortune.

If Brennan tried to repeat this program, James Holden was very apt to suggest either the rather rare case of Barratry or Maintenance against Brennan.

Pray let the poor dear child be put to bed, and then if you will relate what you know of her parents, I dare say I can give you some advice, to enable you to discover her relations, and relieve you from the burthen of her maintenance.

Through their effects upon the blood and the lymph, the organs of circulation, respiration, digestion, and excretion minister in different ways to the cells, and aid in the maintenance of life.

State capable of foreclosing an action for maintenance or support in another may be different from that required to alter the marital status with extraterritorial effect.

But the multiped pellets sink to the bottom of the tubs, and we have to send maintenance in there to extract them manually.

The panzer emerges into a clearing, where a metal maintenance shack rusts on its slab of concrete, and in that brief moment Cowboy fires a chaff rocket straight up and dives among the alloy trees once more.

Mors Planch, glittering with recent maintenance, rested in its cradle.

Add to this the rooms Plummer has christened the Squash Courts and the Jacuzziobscure maintenance function facilities now employed by residents in competitive rituals of moral tougheningand one has a complete home away from home.