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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I followed, and we tucked ourselves into the tiny maintenance bay we’d used the last time we were almost caught by security.
From Literature
In healthy cells, they support cellular maintenance and energy production.
From Science Daily
A massive backlog of maintenance and software contracts will ensure recurring revenue.
Many of these shared regions were linked to immune function, inflammation, or stem cell maintenance.
From Science Daily
So they quit work, and now live on a campsite in north Wales, where they cut grass, help with site maintenance and check in guests.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
