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Another word for maintenance

maintenance Synonyms

maintenance

n.

The act of maintaining
keeping, sustaining, continuance, upholding, carrying; see also preservation, support 3, subsistence 1.
The means of maintaining
sustenance, livelihood, resources; see pay 1, 2, subsistence 2.

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Another word for maintenance

noun

The means needed to support life:

alimentation, alimony, bread, bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, subsistence, support, sustenance, upkeep. See money

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maintenance. (n.d.). Retrieved April 21st, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/MAINTENANCE

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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.
Brady couldn't help but hope not all elite security forces were as high-maintenance as this one.
She marched again into the cold snowstorm and to the maintenance tool shed tucked between boulders and trees.
He wondered what poor fool was stuck babysitting the high-maintenance angel as he followed Kris.

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