Definition of maintenance

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Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

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Independence :: Independence (n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference..
Beaconage :: Beaconage (n.) Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively..
Keep :: Keep (n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse..
Sustentation :: Sustentation (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance..
Sustaltic :: Sustainment (n.) The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.
Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
Standing :: Standing (n.) Maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing..
Policed :: Policed (a.) Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration..
Belong :: Belong (v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town..
Innervation :: Innervation (n.) Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs..
Entertain :: Entertain (v. t.) To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support..
Causidical :: Causidical (a.) Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits..
Benefice :: Benefice (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson..
Prebend :: Prebend (n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice..
Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..
Fund :: Fund (n.) An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object..
Aliment :: Aliment (n.) An allowance for maintenance.
Alimony :: Alimony (n.) Maintenance; means of living.
Supporter :: Supportation (n.) Maintenance; support.
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