Maintenance

Noun

 * 1) Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
 * 2)  A tort 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.

Related terms

 * maintain

Adjectives for Maintenance
continued; scanty; gressive; standing; perpetual; fitting; proadequate; jealous.

Thesaurus
TLC, abidingness, age, aid, alimentation, alimony, allowance, antiquity, backing, bottling up, bread, care, carriage, carrying, conservancy, conservation, conservationism, constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, contribution, corking up, daily bread, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duration, economic support, endowment, endurance, environmental conservation, extension, forest conservation, forest management, holding, holding in, inhibition, keep, keeping, lastingness, lengthening, livelihood, living, locking in, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintaining, manna, meat, moral support, mothering, nourishment, nurture, paying the bills, perdurability, perennation, permanence, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, prehension, preserval, preservation, price support, progress, progression, prolongation, protection, protraction, provision, psychological support, pursuance, reliance, repetition, repression, retainment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, run, safekeeping, salt, salvage, salvation, saving, security blanket, soil conservation, stability, standing, standing treat, staying power, steadfastness, stipend, straight course, stream conservation, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, suppression, survival, survivance, sustained action, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tenacity, tender loving care, treat, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, upholding, upkeep, water conservation, way, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation

Etymology
From mayntenaunce:, from  maintenance:, from maintenir:, from  undefined:.

Note that maintain: has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence spelt with -tain, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.

Translations

 * Arabic: صيانة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 保養, 保养, ,  ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vedligeholdelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: hooldus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, maintenance
 * Galician: mantemento


 * German: Instandhaltung,
 * Hungarian: szervíz
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 보존
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خزمه‌ت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: manutenção
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: hævdelse, forsvar


 * : 手入れ (ていれ, teire)
 * : vedlikehold
 * : întreţinere
 * : întreţinere

Noun

 * 1) maintenance

Etymology
From verb maintenir, maintenoir "to maintain" and suffix -ance.