Definitions for maintenance

maintenance main·te·nance

Spelling: [meyn-tuh-nuh ns]
IPA: /ˈmeɪn tə nəns/

Maintenance is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 402 anagrams from letters in maintenance (aaceeimnnnt).

Definitions for maintenance

noun

  1. the act of maintaining:
  2. the state of being maintained:
  3. care or upkeep, as of machinery or property:
  4. means of upkeep, support, or subsistence; livelihood:
  5. alimony or child support.
  6. Law. an officious meddling in a suit in which the meddler has no interest, by assisting either party with means to prosecute or defend it.

adjective

  1. Pharmacology, Psychiatry. administered to sustain a desired physiological or mental condition:

Origin of maintenance

1275-1325; Middle English maintenaunce Middle French maintenance. See maintain, -ance

Examples for maintenance

The maximum that could be drawn for maintenance was not less than seventy per cent.

But they have high fixed costs—overhead, maintenance, staff, and power.

Further, there are maintenance crews who have to fix those drones.

Sergeant Walters and the rest of the maintenance crew were standing there.

Pulling engineers from the Super Hornet program then led to a maintenance backlog on that program too, sources said.

If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

As it is, I look to the Excise scheme as a certainty of maintenance; a maintenance!

After construction, the pipeline would employ about 50 people, primarily for maintenance.

The Phenicians were very much in earnest about the maintenance of state and of religion.

And if I am to estimate the penalty fairly, I should say that maintenance in the Prytaneum is the just return.

Word Value for maintenance
Scrable

15

Words with friends

20

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