Maintenance
['meɪnt(ə)nəns;-tɪn-] or ['mentənəns]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) means of maintenance of a family or group.
Edited by Charlene--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
(n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
(n.) 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.
Checked by Bernadette
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Support, vindication, justification, defence; preservation.[2]. Sustenance, food, victuals, provisions, BREAD, livelihood, subsistence.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Livelihood, defence, subsistence, means_of_support
Typist: Lottie
Examples
- If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Such taxes, when destined for the maintenance of the state, have some advantages, which may serve in some measure to balance their inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In those days the principal expense of the sovereign seems to have consisted in the maintenance of his own family and household. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The greater part of it will naturally be destined for the employment of industry, and not for the maintenance of idleness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The cost of an acetylene generator is about $50 for a small house, and the cost of maintenance is not more than that of lamps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The greater this surplus, the greater must likewise be the maintenance and employment of that class. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is true that the country, from its rocky surface and unfertile soil, was extremely unfit for the maintenance of those animals. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He appears to have enquired very carefully into this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn's History of the Poor Laws. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The farmer makes his profit by keeping the labouring cattle, and by parting with their maintenance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The maintenance of state mena geries no doubt had a similar influence on the study of the natural history of animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When destined for the maintenance of the church, they are attended with nothing but inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Checker: Melanie