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keeping
Reservation for future use; preservation
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  1. Reservation for future use; preservation
  2. Maintenance or means of maintenance; keep
  3. The act of holding, guarding, maintaining, or supporting:
continuance
The act or fact of continuing:
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  1. The act or fact of continuing:
  2. The adjournment or postponement to another date of a trial or other proceeding. See also adjourn. The adjournment or postponement to another date of a trial or other proceeding. See also adjourn.
  3. The time during which an action, process, or state lasts; duration
sustenance
Something that sustains something else; essential support:
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  1. Something that sustains something else; essential support:
  2. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
  3. One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
livelihood
(Now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate. [from 15th c.]
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  1. (Now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate. [from 15th c.]
  2. Means of living or of supporting life; subsistence
  3. Means of support; subsistence.
alimentation
Feeding, being fed; the provision of food and other necessities.
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  1. Feeding, being fed; the provision of food and other necessities.
  2. The act or process of giving or receiving nourishment.
  3. Support; sustenance
alimony
A means of livelihood; maintenance.
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  1. A means of livelihood; maintenance.
  2. (Obs.) Supply of the means of living; maintenance
  3. (Law) An allowance for support made under court order to a divorced person by the former spouse, usually the chief provider during the marriage. Alimony may also be granted without a divorce, as between legally separated persons.
bread
A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
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  1. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
  2. The means of living; livelihood
  3. Means of support; livelihood:
bread and butter
Used other than as an idiom: see bread,"Ž butter.
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  1. Used other than as an idiom: see bread,"Ž butter.
  2. (Idiomatic) That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.
  3. Means of support; livelihood.
keep
(Rare) A keeping or being kept
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  1. (Rare) A keeping or being kept
  2. Care; charge:
  3. The means by which one is supported:
livelihood
A person's means of supporting himself. [from 14th c.]
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  1. A person's means of supporting himself. [from 14th c.]
  2. Means of living or of supporting life; subsistence
  3. Means of support; subsistence.
living
The means of sustaining life; livelihood
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  1. The means of sustaining life; livelihood
  2. A means of maintaining life; livelihood:
  3. A manner or style of life:
subsistence
The act of providing sustenance
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  1. The act of providing sustenance
  2. (Philos.) The status of something that exists in itself as an individual whole
  3. Means of support or livelihood; often, specif., the barest means in terms of food, clothing, and shelter needed to sustain life
support
Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
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  1. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
  2. The act of supporting:
  3. The provision of money or the necessities of life:
sustenance
Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
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  1. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
  2. Something that sustains something else; essential support:
  3. One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
upkeep
The cost of such maintenance.
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  1. The cost of such maintenance.
  2. The act of keeping up buildings, equipment, etc.; maintenance
  3. Maintenance in proper operation, condition, and repair.
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  • The most successful feature of Crispis term of office was his strict maintenance of Order and the suppression of Radical and Irredentist agitation.

  • The house will need scheduled maintenance but will remember when and will ask you for permission.

  • If she had maintenance, a breach of the marriage tie was adultery.

  • During exercises, the government's premier contingency operations compound in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee was populated only by maintenance crews and a few relaxed guards.

  • She marched again into the cold snowstorm and to the maintenance tool shed tucked between boulders and trees.

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