Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
- 2noun
That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
"he wrote the manual on car care"
- 5noun
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"
- 6noun
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
"they were in want of sustenance"
"fishing was their main sustainment"
- 7noun
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
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- 8noun
means of maintenance of a family or group
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