maintenance
IPA: mˈeɪntʌnʌns
noun
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (law) Child support.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
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Examples of "maintenance" in Sentences
- The maintenance is very monotonous.
- The cost of maintenance is negligible.
- Sorting the column helps the maintenance.
- The goal was the maintenance of their dignity.
- It's the maintenance that is much more toilsome.
- Hygiene is the maintenance of healthful practices.
- The maintenance of the school worked as a janitor.
- The temple is under the maintenance of the the goddess.
- Maintenance and restoration of the structure is part of the curriculum.
- I ` m doing what they call maintenance chemo, a user-friendly chemo agent.
- The square open-air cloister, like many other areas of the church, had forgotten the meaning of the word maintenance.
- "Right now, we are entering what we call the maintenance phase, where we leave some absorbent pads out there and keep the vessel boomed off," Pierre said.
- Manage the development of annual and short term maintenance plans developed by the Portfolio Managers and ensure all associated work orders are designed and constructed in compliance with all City and State codes;
- Roberts, one of the members of the Committee, is only anxious for what he calls the maintenance of liturgical tradition; he says that there is a science of liturgy, and that it is of the utmost importance to keep in touch with it.
- I think how we want to think about on a fiscal year basis is, in terms of just what we call the maintenance and compliance CapEx, we're still thinking we're probably running about around a $400 million type of number there for the fiscal year.
- It was a little larger on the underground side but you can see that on our underground business we have quicker pricing power on the aftermarket that we do in the surface business, surface carries a number of long-term, what we call maintenance to repair contracts.
- "We have an industry out there that supports the myth that after six months, you'll reach what they call the maintenance stage, where everything will be in order and you don't have to pay any special attention to what you're doing," says Rodgers, whose findings appear in the
- I was making $16.21 an hour, because I did some networking on the inside with a family friend who told me what I would need to learn in order to become a maintenance person, or what they called a maintenance technician, which is really just a janitor, but laughs that's a good title for it.