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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Next up is building structures to house the park’s eight-person maintenance team to better manage repairs and upkeep.
From Los Angeles Times
However, “with seasonal refinery maintenance about to commence, reducing demand for crude, further reductions in crude production will be needed to help balance the market.”
It alleges these were caused by "a wide and confusing variety of engineering, manufacturing, quality, and maintenance problems".
From BBC
He has included a provision stating that I would be responsible for “maintenance and expenses” during my occupancy.
From MarketWatch
Closing off an often-windowless room to natural light means guests will run up energy bills and leave maintenance with more lightbulb-changing work.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
