Housekeeping vs. Maintenance — What's the Difference?

Housekeeping refers to the management of duties and chores involved in the running of a household, such as cleaning, cooking, home maintenance, shopping, and bill payment. These tasks may be performed by members of the household, or by other persons hired for the purpose.

The process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved

Performance or management of household tasks.

The provision of financial support for a person's living expenses, or the support so provided

Management and maintenance of the property of an institution or organization.

The offence of aiding a party in a legal action without lawful cause.

Routine tasks and procedures carried out in the functioning of an operation or system.

The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained

A department in a hotel or institution that is in charge of cleaning and minor maintenance.

The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep

The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.

Provision of support or livelihood

Any general tasks that involve preparation.

Means of support or livelihood

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.

(Law) The wrongful aiding of another in the pursuit or defense of a lawsuit, especially in jurisdictions where nonparties are legally prohibited to provide financial assistance.

The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.

Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.

(legal) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.

Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.

Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.

(legal) Child support.

The work of cleaning and running a house

Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.

(biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.

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.

Those actions required for the care of machinery, a building, etc., to keep it clean and in proper functioning condition, and to prevent or forestall damage due to normal use.

Payments, such as child support or alimony, to a dependent child not living with one or to a divorced wife.

Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order;

Means of maintenance of a family or group

Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence;