maintenance 音标拼音: [m'entənəns] [m'entnəns]
n . 维护,保持,维修,生活费用,坚持,扶养,瞻养义务
维护,保持,维修,生活费用,坚持,扶养,瞻养义务
maintenance 维护;维修
MAINT maintenance 维护
maintenance n 1 :
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order ; "
he wrote the manual on car care " [
synonym : {
care },
{
maintenance }, {
upkeep }]
2 :
means of maintenance of a family or group 3 :
court -
ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated [
synonym : {
alimony }, {
maintenance }]
4 :
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence ; "
they were in want of sustenance "; "
fishing was their main sustainment " [
synonym : {
sustenance }, {
sustentation },
{
sustainment }, {
maintenance }, {
upkeep }]
5 :
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 "
[
synonym : {
maintenance }, {
criminal maintenance }]
Maintenance \
Main "
te *
nance \,
n . [
OF .
maintenance .
See {
Maintain }.]
1 .
The act of maintaining ;
sustenance ;
support ;
defense ;
vindication .
[
1913 Webster ]
Whatsoever is granted to the church for God '
s honor and the maintenance of his service ,
is granted to God . --
South .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
That which maintains or supports ;
means of sustenance ;
supply of necessaries and conveniences .
[
1913 Webster ]
Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance . --
Swift .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 . (
Crim .
Law )
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 }.
--
Wharton .
[
1913 Webster ]
4 .
Those actions required for the care of machinery ,
a building ,
etc .,
to keep it clean and in proper functioning condition ,
and to prevent or forestall damage due to normal use .
[
PJC ]
5 .
Payments ,
such as child support or alimony ,
to a dependent child not living with one or to a divorced wife .
[
PJC ]
{
Cap of maintenance }.
See under {
Cap }.
[
1913 Webster ]
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "
maintenance ":
TLC ,
abidingness ,
age ,
aid ,
alimentation ,
alimony ,
allowance ,
antiquity ,
backing ,
bottling up ,
bread ,
care ,
carriage ,
carrying ,
conservancy ,
conservation ,
conservationism ,
constancy ,
continualness ,
continuance ,
continuation ,
continuity ,
contribution ,
corking up ,
daily bread ,
defeat of time ,
defiance of time ,
diuturnity ,
durability ,
durableness ,
duration ,
economic support ,
endowment ,
endurance ,
environmental conservation ,
extension ,
forest conservation ,
forest management ,
holding ,
holding in ,
inhibition ,
keep ,
keeping ,
lastingness ,
lengthening ,
livelihood ,
living ,
locking in ,
long standing ,
long -
lastingness ,
long -
livedness ,
longevity ,
maintaining ,
manna ,
meat ,
moral support ,
mothering ,
nourishment ,
nurture ,
paying the bills ,
perdurability ,
perennation ,
permanence ,
perpetuation ,
perpetuity ,
perseverance ,
persistence ,
prehension ,
preserval ,
preservation ,
price support ,
progress ,
progression ,
prolongation ,
protection ,
protraction ,
provision ,
psychological support ,
pursuance ,
reliance ,
repetition ,
repression ,
retainment ,
retention ,
retentiveness ,
retentivity ,
run ,
safekeeping ,
salt ,
salvage ,
salvation ,
saving ,
security blanket ,
soil conservation ,
stability ,
standing ,
standing treat ,
staying power ,
steadfastness ,
stipend ,
straight course ,
stream conservation ,
subsidization ,
subsidy ,
subsistence ,
subvention ,
support ,
supportive relationship ,
supportive therapy ,
suppression ,
survival ,
survivance ,
sustained action ,
sustaining ,
sustainment ,
sustenance ,
sustentation ,
tenacity ,
tender loving care ,
treat ,
uninterrupted course ,
unremittingness ,
upholding ,
upkeep ,
water conservation ,
way ,
wetlands conservation ,
wildlife conservation The modification of a software product , after
delivery , to correct faults , to improve performance or other
attributes , or to adapt the product to a changed environment .
Maintenance is an important part of the {software life -cycle }.
It is expensive in manpower and resources , and one of the aims
of {software engineering } is to reduce its cost .
1996 -12 -27 )MAINTENANCE ,
quasi contracts .
The support which one person ,
who is bound by law to do so ,
gives to another for his living ;
for example ,
a father is bound to find maintenance for his children ;
and a child is required by law to maintain his father or mother when they cannot support themselves ,
and he has ability to maintain them .
1 Bouv .
Inst .
n .
284 -
6 .
MAINTENANCE ,
crimes .
A malicious ,
or at least ,
officious interference in a suit in which the offender has no interest ,
to assist one of the parties to it against the other ,
with money or advice to prosecute or defend the action ,
without any authority of law .
1 Russ .
Cr .
176 .
2 .
But there are many acts in the nature of maintenance ,
which become justifiable from the circumstances under which they are done .
They may be justified ,
1 .
Because the party has an interest in the thing in variance ;
as when he has a bare contingency in the lands in question ,
which possibly may never come in esse .
Bac .
Ab .
h .
t .
2 .
Because the party is of kindred or affinity ,
as father ,
son ,
or heir apparent ,
or husband or wife .
3 .
Because the relation of landlord and tenant or master and servant subsists between the party to the suit and the person who assists him .
4 .
Because the money is given out of charity .
1 Bailey ,
S .
C .
Rep .
401 .
5 .
Because the person assisting the party to the suit is an attorney or counsellor :
the assistance to be rendered must ,
however ,
be strictly professional ,
for a lawyer is not more justified in giving his client money than another man .
1 Russ .
Cr .
179 .
Bac .
Ab Maintenance :
Bro .
Maintenance .
This offence is punishable by fine and imprisonment .
4 Black Com .
124 ;
2 Swift '
s Dig .
328 ;
Bac .
Ab .
h .
t .
Vide 3 Hawks ,
86 ;
1 Greenl .
292 ;
11 Mass .
553 ,
6 Mass .
421 ;
5 Pick .
359 ;
5 Monr .
413 ;
6 Cowen ,
431 ;
4 Wend .
806 ;
14 John .
R .
124 ;
3 Cowen ,
647 ;
3 John .
Ch .
R .
508 7 D . &
R .
846 ;
5 B . &
C .
188 .
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