All maintenance synonyms

noun maintenance

• supply — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
• conservation — Conservation is saving and protecting the environment.
• upkeep — the process or activity of providing an establishment, machine, person, etc., with necessary or proper maintenance, repairs, support, or the like: The machine's faulty operation shows that no one has attended to its upkeep.
• preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
• care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
• aliment — something that nourishes or sustains the body or mind
• continuation — The continuation of something is the fact that it continues, rather than stopping.
• bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
• livelihood — a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.
• alimony — Alimony is money that a court of law orders someone to pay regularly to their former wife or husband after they have got divorced. Compare palimony.
• living — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
• alimentation — sustenance; support
• resources — a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
• food — any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc.
• subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
• provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
• bread — Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast.
• continuance — The continuance of something is its continuation.
• wherewithal — that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
• keeping — board and lodging; subsistence; support: to work for one's keep.
• prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• nurture — to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
• salt — See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
• allowance — An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
• sustainment — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
• carrying — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
• retainment — to keep possession of.
• sustaining — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
• sustention — the act of sustaining.
• perpetuation — to make perpetual.
• protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
• grant — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
• child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.