Definition of maintenance

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Maintenance (n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.

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Supporter :: Supportation (n.) Maintenance; support.
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..
Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..
Assertion :: Assertion (n.) Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives..
Chapeau :: Chapeau (n.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping..
Causidical :: Causidical (a.) Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits..
Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.
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..
Sustentation :: Sustentation (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance..
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..
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..
Father :: Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection..
Burse :: Burse (n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries..
Orangeman :: Orangeman (n.) One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England..
Beaconage :: Beaconage (n.) Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
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..
Livelihood :: Livelihood (n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance..
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