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maintenance
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 11
- Starts with
- M
- Ends with
- E
- Contains
- AINTENANC
- Scrabble score
- 15
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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noun
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
“he wrote the manual on car care”
noun
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”
noun
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
“they were in want of sustenance”
noun
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
noun
means of maintenance of a family or group
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Example Sentences
he wrote the manual on car care
unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
they were in want of sustenance
fishing was their main sustainment
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