maintenance

maintenance is a 11-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
2. noun. That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. activity involved in maintaining something in good working order

   "he wrote the manual on car care"

   Synonyms: care, upkeep

5. 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"

6. noun. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

   "they were in want of sustenance"

   "fishing was their main sustainment"

   Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep

7. noun. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

   Synonyms: alimony

8. noun. means of maintenance of a family or group

Synonyms

care, upkeep, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, alimony

Common word forms

maintenances

Words from these letters

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