maintenance
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
Other meanings
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.
Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
Related words
- automaintenance
- nonmaintenance
- undermaintenance
- data maintenance
- facilities maintenance
- facility maintenance
- maintenance window
- high-maintenance
- low-maintenance
- percussive maintenance
- maintenance hole
- postmaintenance
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "maintenance".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “maintenance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.