Maintenance Synonyms and Antonyms

māntə-nəns
The act of maintaining
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. keeping
  2. sustaining
  3. continuance
  4. upholding
  5. carrying
The means of maintaining
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sustenance
  2. livelihood
  3. upkeep
  4. subsistence
  5. alimentation
  6. alimony
  7. care
  8. keep
  9. support
  10. sustentation
  11. bread
  12. aid
  13. bread and butter
  14. board
  15. living
  16. conservation
  17. preservation
  18. resources
  19. repairs
  20. sustainment
Antonyms:
  1. ignorance
  2. neglect
  3. forsaking
  4. desertion
Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. alimony
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. criminal maintenance

Words Related to Maintenance

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. pay
  2. money
  3. servicing
  4. maintainance
  5. repair
  6. maintainence
  7. cleaning
  8. monitoring
  9. equipment
  10. maintenence
  11. management

Maintenance Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • The maintenance of Roman forms and terms is prominent in fiscal administration.

  • Cromwell's religious policy included the maintenance of a national church, a policy acceptable to the army but much disliked by the Scots, who wanted the church to control the state, not the state the church.

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