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Meaning of 'maintenance' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Maintenance [ n.]
- The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
- That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
- 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.

Meaning of 'maintenance' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . maintenance [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
Example in sentence:
  • fishing was their main sustainment;
  • they were in want of sustenance
Meaning (2):
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
Example in sentence:
  • he wrote the manual on car care
Meaning (3):
- 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
Example in sentence:
  • unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit

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