Definition for Maintenance:

• The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; continuance; defence; means of support; an officious intermeddling in a suit in which the person has no interest. Cap of maintenance, a cap of dignity, formerly belonging to the rank of a duke.

Synonyms for Maintenance:

• n.

  •
  • dissolution,
  • ex,
  • dissolve,
  • co-respondent,
  • preservation,
  • keeping,
  • contact,
  • joint custody,
  • divorce,
  • access.
  •
  • pay,
  • overhaul,
  • refit,
  • repair,
  • Resources.
  •
  • in escrow,
  • storage,
  • bread,
  • money.
  •act (noun)
  • maintenance,
  • care,
  • upkeep.
  •adoption (noun)
  • taking over,
  • embracings.
  •alimony (noun)
  • remittance,
  • Remittances.
  •assertion (noun)
  • de-fenses,
  • de fenses,
  • two cents' worths,
  • stressings,
  • asservations,
  • stamp approval.
  •conservation (noun)
  • pre servals,
  • pre serving,
  • super visions,
  • governings,
  • super vising,
  • pre-servals,
  • cherishings,
  • preservings,
  • super-vision,
  • conservings,
  • pre serval,
  • pre-serval,
  • managings,
  • preservals,
  • pre servings,
  • sustentations,
  • guardings,
  • super-vising,
  • directings,
  • pre-serving,
  • super-visions,
  • safeguardings,
  • pre-servings,
  • protectings,
  • super vision,
  • supervisings.
  •continuation (noun)
  • perseverance,
  • continuation,
  • protraction,
  • abidingness,
  • persistence,
  • extension,
  • prolongation,
  • continuance,
  • interminability.
  •custody (noun)
  • engagement,
  • custody,
  • retention,
  • reservation,
  • conservation,
  • grasp.
  •food (noun)
  • nourishment.
  •help (noun)
  • co operation,
  • co operations.
  •oversight (noun)
  • in-tendance,
  • in tendance,
  • over sights,
  • over-sight,
  • in-tendances,
  • in tendances,
  • over sight,
  • intendances,
  • over-sights.
  •perpetuation, support; sustenance (noun)
  • bacon,
  • aliment,
  • Carrying,
  • keep,
  • alimentation,
  • Sustaining,
  • nurture,
  • Sustention,
  • supply,
  • repairs,
  • provision,
  • wherewithal,
  • salt,
  • food,
  • Retainment,
  • bread and butter,
  • sustainment,
  • allowance.
  •quarters (noun)
  • accommodations.
  •relief (noun)
  • palliative,
  • extrications,
  • restfulness,
  • mollification,
  • load off one's mind,
  • lightenings,
  • palliation,
  • palliatives,
  • Allayment,
  • extrication.
  •running (noun)
  • workings,
  • running,
  • coordinations,
  • co-ordination,
  • coordination,
  • Superintendency.
  •service (noun)
  • over hauls,
  • over haul,
  • over-haul,
  • over-hauls,
  • serviceabilities.
  •subsistence (noun)
  • sub stances,
  • in dependences,
  • sub stance,
  • in-dependence,
  • in dependence,
  • sub-stance,
  • sub-stances,
  • in-dependences.
  •support (noun)
  • support.
  •sustenance (noun)
  • daily breads.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • do-it-yourself,
  • defense,
  • operation,
  • troubleshooting,
  • running repair.
  •
  • warehousing,
  • renewal,
  • custodian,
  • pack rat.
  •
  • mend.

Paraphrases for Maintenance:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    repairs.

• Independent

  • Foreign word
    'entretien.
  • Adjective
    remedial, serviced, sustained.
  • Proper noun, plural
    Resources, nations.
  • Proper noun, singular
    requirements, aliments, Maintaining, demands, Plants, Charges, directors, foodstuffs, bursaries, Trustees, keeping, serviceability.
  • Noun, plural
    replacements, safeguards, responsibilities, practices, purposes, initiatives, Facilities, peacekeepers, tasks, contributions, interests, Risks, threats, complexes, objectives, intervals, discussions, advocates, questions, levels, Missions, challenges, Grants, Standards, events, trends, buildings, defenders, Areas, months, dollars, Persons, signs, Guidelines, handholds, Charges, bursaries, keeping.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    maintainability, perpetuation, grooming, persistence, guarantee, rectification, functioning, keeping, Nurturing, operating, warranty, serviceability.
  • Verb, past tense
    retained, Remained, sustained.
  • Verb, past participle
    retained, Remained, stabilized, kept, Upheld, Stayed, sustained.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    remains, continues.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    Maintaining, conservation, janitorial, repair, peacekeeping.
  • Proper noun, singular
    servicing, preservation, conservation, repair, repairs, alimony, peacekeeping.
  • Noun, plural
    Interviews.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Maintaining, servicing, renovation, preservation, conservation, refurbishment, repair, alimony, peacekeeping.
  • Verb, base form
    repair.

Antonyms for Maintenance:

• n.

  • perpetuation, support; sustenance
    entertainment, stop, neglect, forsaking, ignorance, finish, desertion, fun, end, destruction, negligence.

Maintenance Sentence Examples:

• For how few are there, having a family, children, and relations, who do not spend more on the maintenance and education of these than on their own pleasures?

• Such an opportunity as the church offers for social worship is essential to the maintenance of religion.

Homophones for Maintenance:

• meetinghouse, minuteness, muddiness, matting, mountain ash, mending, maddening, meadow mouse, moodiness, mating, mediateness, monatomic, monotonic, mandamus, meeting, mountain oak, muntingia, mutinus, madness, mountainous, Mount Adams, medium-size, monotonous, metonymic, mutinous, myotonic, meeting house, meat-eating, mounting, Montan Wax, mundaneness, matins, muteness, monoatomic, momentaneous.

Hypernym for Maintenance:

• n.

  • act
    scheduled maintenance, car care, pump priming, inspection and repair, camera care, service, steam fitting, overhaul.

Hyponym for Maintenance:

• n.

  • act
    fixture, reparation, fix, repair, mending, mend, fixing.
  • possession
    livelihood, keep, sustenance, support, bread and butter, living.