Definition of Maintenance

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"
    - criminal maintenance
  • the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
    "they were in want of sustenance"
    "fishing was their main sustainment"
  • court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
  • means of maintenance of a family or group
  • activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
    "he wrote the manual on car care"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

Word games points for the Maintenance

  • Scrabble® score of the maintenance (15)
  • Word Chums® score of the maintenance (23)
  • Words With Friends® score of the maintenance (20)

Unscramble maintenance

306 unscramble word found using the letters maintenance.

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