maintenance
Usage
What are other ways to say maintenance?
Generally, maintenance refers to care or upkeep, as of machinery or property. But sometimes, maintenance refers to what is spent for the living of another: to provide for the maintenance or support of someone. Maintenance occasionally refers to the allowance itself provided for livelihood: They are entitled to a maintenance from this estate. Living and livelihood (a somewhat more formal word), both refer to what one earns to keep (oneself) alive, but are seldom interchangeable within the same phrase: to earn one's living; to threaten one's livelihood. “To make a living” suggests making just enough to keep alive, and is particularly frequent in the negative: You cannot make a living out of that. “To make a livelihood out of something” suggests rather making a business of it: to make a livelihood out of knitting hats.
Example Sentences
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Momentum in the mobile segment is expected to be sustained into 4Q, while the broadband business could see weakness from repair and maintenance of flood-damaged areas in Thailand.
Edison failed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars authorized for transmission line maintenance and upgrades before January’s fires while continuing to bill customers for the work.
From Los Angeles Times
In interviews, Edison executives disputed that maintenance on the company’s transmission lines suffered before Jan. 7.
From Los Angeles Times
Typically, homeowners associations are private organizations that oversee the maintenance and management of residential communities, including gated neighborhoods, condo buildings, and co-ops, and handle everything from repairs to communal amenities to trash pickup.
From MarketWatch
The terms of a lease include whether a homeowner needs permission to make alterations and who has responsibility for repairs, maintenance and even dealing with problem neighbours.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
