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Housekeeping vs. Maintenance — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Housekeeping and Maintenance

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Housekeeping

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.
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Maintenance

The process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved
Crucial conditions for the maintenance of democratic government
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Housekeeping

Performance or management of household tasks.
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Maintenance

The provision of financial support for a person's living expenses, or the support so provided
A chance of going to university with fees and maintenance paid
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Housekeeping

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

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

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

The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained
Nutrients essential to the maintenance of good health.
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Housekeeping

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

The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep
Car maintenance.
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Housekeeping

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

Provision of support or livelihood
Took over the maintenance of her family.
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Housekeeping

Any general tasks that involve preparation.
The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.
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Maintenance

Means of support or livelihood
Was ordered to pay maintenance for both children.
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Housekeeping

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

(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.
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Housekeeping

The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
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Maintenance

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

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

(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.
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Housekeeping

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry?Small housekeeping enough, said Phœbe.
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Maintenance

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

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

(legal) Child support.
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Housekeeping

The work of cleaning and running a house
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Maintenance

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

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

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his service, is granted to God.
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Maintenance

That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance.
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Maintenance

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.
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Maintenance

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.
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Maintenance

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

Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order;
He wrote the manual on car care
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Maintenance

Means of maintenance of a family or group
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Maintenance

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