maintenance

Main Entry:
pretension [pri-ten-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: false claim, assertion of importance
Synonyms: allegation, ambition, ambitiousness, aspiration, assumption, charade, declaration, demand, disguise, maintenance, make-believe, pageant, pretense, pretext, profession, title
Antonyms: honesty, truth
Main Entry: running
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: management of organization
Synonyms: administration, care, charge, conduct, control, coordination, direction, functioning, handling, intendance, leadership, maintenance, operation, organization, oversight, performance, regulation, superintendency, supervision, working
Main Entry: service
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aid, help
Synonyms: account, advantage, applicability, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, ministration, office, overhaul, relevance, serviceability, servicing, supply, use, usefulness, utility, value, work
Antonyms: damage, disservice, hurt, injury
Main Entry: subsistence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: provisions for survival
Synonyms: affluence, aliment, alimentation, bread and butter, bread, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, necessities, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal
Main Entry: support
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: food, money, possessions for staying alive
Synonyms: alimentation, alimony, allowance, care, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, necessities, nutriment, payment, provision, relief, responsibility, stock, stores, subsidy, subsistence, sustenance, upkeep, victuals
Main Entry: sustenance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: necessities for existence
Synonyms: aid, aliment, bacon, bread and butter, bread, comestible, daily bread, eatables, edibles, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt, subsistence, support, victual, wherewithal
Antonyms: extras
Main Entry: alimentation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nourishment
Synonyms: bread, bread and butter, food, livelihood, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, subsistence, support, sustenance
Main Entry: palliation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: relief
Synonyms: abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break*, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix*, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance
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Main Entry: assertion
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
absolute, affirmatory, asserting, broad, categorical, certain, confident, decided, declaratory, definitve, distinct, dogmatic, emphatic, explicit, express, flat, formal, ipse, peremptory, philodoxical, pointed, positive, predicable, predicatory, pronunciative, round, solemn, thetical, trenchant, unretracted
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