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Meaning of maintenance

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  maintenance
      n 1: activity involved in maintaining something in good working
           order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn: {care},
           {maintenance}, {upkeep}]
      2: means of maintenance of a family or group
      3: court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after
         they are separated [syn: {alimony}, {maintenance}]
      4: the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of
         subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was
         their main sustainment" [syn: {sustenance}, {sustentation},
         {sustainment}, {maintenance}, {upkeep}]
      5: the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person
         having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money
         or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct
         justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the
         peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal
         maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
         [syn: {maintenance}, {criminal maintenance}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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