| 单词 | maintenance |
| 释义 | maintenance (once / 524 pages) 1n 2n If you make sure that your house or car or even a database stays in good working condition, you are keeping up on the maintenance. Maintain, the verb related to the noun maintenance, comes from the Latin expression manu tenere meaning literally "hold in the hand," a fitting picture for this word. As well as the upkeep of machines, maintenance can be used with things that need sustaining. The maintenance of law and order is taken care of by the police. When a couple divorces, the husband is usually required to pay maintenance — financial support — to the wife. WORD FAMILYmaintenance: maintenances+/maintain: maintainable, maintained, maintainer, maintaining, maintains, maintenance/maintainer: maintainers USAGE EXAMPLESStage Five is the “Maintenance Stage,” where we are in the middle of a strong commitment to maintaining change. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Jason Klenklen, supervisor of transmission maintenance, says the drones currently are used primarily in rural areas to inspect transmission lines. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Reliability improves because of intensified repairs and maintenance under the SafeTrack program. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n activity involved in maintaining something in good working order Syn|Hypo|Hyper care, upkeep camera care keeping a camera in good working order car carekeeping a car in good working order inspection and repair, overhaul, serviceperiodic maintenance on a car or machine pump primingintroducing water into a pump to improve the seal and start the water flowing scheduled maintenancemaintenance at a regularly scheduled time steam fittingcare (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating oil changereplacing dirty oil with clean interim overhaulan overhaul between the regular times for overhauling fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation the act of putting something in working order again 2n the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence Syn|Hyper sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep support the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities 3n court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated Syn|Hyper alimony support payment a payment made by one person for the support of another 4n means of maintenance of a family or group 2Hyper bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenance the financial means whereby one lives n 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 Syn|Hyper criminal maintenance actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct activity that transgresses moral or civil law |
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