maintenance
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
maintenance/ˈmeɪntənəns/
▶noun
- 1 the process of maintaining or the state of being maintained.
- 2 Brit. a husband's or wife's provision for a spouse after separation or divorce.
- 3 Law the offence of aiding a party in a legal action without lawful cause.
'maintenance' also found in these Oxford entries:
adopt
- airfield
- aliment
- alimony
- appanage
- artificial respiration
- biomolecule
- cap
- capitalize
- care
- continuity
- corrody
- fettler
- fundamentalism
- gandy dancer
- homeostasis
- housekeeping
- life support
- nutrient
- oestrogen
- osmoregulation
- peacekeeping
- police
- public relations
- road fund
- roundhouse
- rpm
- school board
- service
- service charge
- serviceman
- service station
- ship's husband
- station-keeping
- terotechnology
- thruster
- tracking
- Trinity Brethren
- -trophic
- unadopted
- unionist
- xeriscape
