Maintenance

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maintenance \Main"te*nance\, n. [OF. maintenance. See
     {Maintain}.]
     1. The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense;
        vindication.
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              Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor
              and the maintenance of his service, is granted to
              God.                                  --South.
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     2. That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance;
        supply of necessaries and conveniences.
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              Those of better fortune not making learning their
              maintenance.                          --Swift.
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     3. (Crim. Law) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a
        cause depending between others, by assisting either party
        with money or means to carry it on. See {Champerty}.
        --Wharton.
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     4. Those actions required for the care of machinery, a
        building, etc., to keep it clean and in proper functioning
        condition, and to prevent or forestall damage due to
        normal use.
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     5. Payments, such as child support or alimony, to a dependent
        child not living with one or to a divorced wife.
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     {Cap of maintenance}. See under {Cap}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  maintenance
       n 1: activity involved in maintaining something in good working
            order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn: {care}, {upkeep}]
       2: means of maintenance of a family or group
       3: court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after
          they are separated [syn: {alimony}]
       4: the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of
          subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing
          was their main sustainment" [syn: {sustenance}, {sustentation},
           {sustainment}, {upkeep}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "maintenance":
     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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  maintenance
       
           The modification of a software product, after
          delivery, to correct faults, to improve performance or other
          attributes, or to adapt the product to a changed environment.
       
          Maintenance is an important part of the {software life-cycle}.
          It is expensive in manpower and resources, and one of the aims
          of {software engineering} is to reduce its cost.
       
          (1996-12-27)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MAINTENANCE, quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by 
  law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is 
  bound to find maintenance for his children; and a child is required by law 
  to maintain his father or mother when they cannot support themselves, and he 
  has ability to maintain them. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 284-6. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MAINTENANCE, crimes. A malicious, or at least, officious interference in a 
  suit in which the offender has no interest, to assist one of the parties to 
  it against the other, with money or advice to prosecute or defend the 
  action, without any authority of law. 1 Russ. Cr. 176. 
       2. But there are many acts in the nature of maintenance, which become 
  justifiable from the circumstances under which they are done. They may be 
  justified, 1. Because the party has an interest in the thing in variance; as 
  when he has a bare contingency in the lands in question, which possibly may 
  never come in esse. Bac. Ab. h.t. 2. Because the party is of kindred or 
  affinity, as father, son, or heir apparent, or husband or wife. 3. Because 
  the relation of landlord and tenant or master and servant subsists between 
  the party to the suit and the person who assists him. 4. Because the money 
  is given out of charity. 1 Bailey, S. C. Rep. 401. 5. Because the person 
  assisting the party to the suit is an attorney or counsellor: the assistance 
  to be rendered must, however, be strictly professional, for a lawyer is not 
  more justified in giving his client money than another man. 1 Russ. Cr. 179. 
  Bac. Ab Maintenance: Bro. Maintenance. This offence is punishable by fine 
  and imprisonment. 4 Black Com. 124; 2 Swift's Dig. 328; Bac. Ab. h.t. Vide 3 
  Hawks, 86; 1 Greenl. 292; 11 Mass. 553, 6 Mass. 421; 5 Pick. 359; 5 Monr. 
  413; 6 Cowen, 431; 4 Wend. 806; 14 John. R. 124; 3 Cowen, 647; 3 John. Ch. 
  R. 508 7 D. & R. 846; 5 B. & C. 188.