Definition of maintenance

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

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Manutenency :: Manutenency (n.) Maintenance.
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..
Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..
Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..
Fellowship :: Fellowship (n.) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university..
Sustentation :: Sustentation (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance..
Finding :: Finding (n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.
Livelihood :: Livelihood (n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance..
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..
Assertion :: Assertion (n.) Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives..
Sustaltic :: Sustainment (n.) The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.
Beaconage :: Beaconage (n.) Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively..
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping..
Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.
Aliment :: Aliment (n.) An allowance for maintenance.
Pensionary :: Pensionary (a.) Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance..
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..
Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty..
Father :: Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection..
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