Usually means: Upkeep to ensure proper functioning.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word maintenance:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. maintenance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. maintenance: Merriam-Webster
  3. maintenance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. maintenance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. maintenance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. maintenance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Maintenance, maintenance: Wordnik
  8. maintenance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. maintenance: Wiktionary
  10. maintenance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. maintenance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. maintenance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. maintenance: Dictionary.com
  14. maintenance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. maintenance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Maintenance (technical), Maintenance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Maintenance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. maintenance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. maintenance: Rhymezone
  20. maintenance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. maintenance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. maintenance: FreeDictionary.org
  23. maintenance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. maintenance, maintenance (materiel): TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. maintenance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. maintenance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Maintenance: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  9. MAINTENANCE: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Maintenance, maintenance: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  12. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  14. Maintenance: INSOLVENCY
  15. maintenance: Legal dictionary
  16. maintenance: Financial dictionary
  17. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  18. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maintenance: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. maintenance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. maintenance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. maintenance: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maintenance: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Maintenance: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Maintenance: Building pathology glossary
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  5. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  6. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See maintenances as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
noun:  (law) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
noun:  (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
noun:  (law) Child support.
noun:  Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
noun:  (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
noun:  (Philippines, medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine. [(Philippines, medicine) chronic medication or maintenance therapy]

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