Housekeeping vs. Maintenance

Housekeepingnoun

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

Maintenancenoun

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

Housekeepingnoun

Any general tasks that involve preparation.

‘The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.’;

Maintenancenoun

(legal) A tort 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.

Housekeepingnoun

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

Maintenancenoun

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

Housekeepingnoun

The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

Maintenancenoun

(legal) Child support.

Housekeepingnoun

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

Maintenancenoun

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

Housekeepingnoun

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.’;

Maintenancenoun

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

Housekeepingadjective

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

Maintenancenoun

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.’;

Housekeepingnoun

the work of cleaning and running a house

Maintenancenoun

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

‘Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance.’;

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.

Maintenancenoun

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.

Maintenancenoun

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.

Maintenancenoun

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

Maintenancenoun

activity involved in maintaining something in good working order;

‘he wrote the manual on car care’;

Maintenancenoun

means of maintenance of a family or group

Maintenancenoun

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

Maintenancenoun

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

‘they were in want of sustenance’; ‘fishing was their main sustainment’;

Maintenancenoun

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

‘crucial conditions for the maintenance of democratic government’;

Maintenancenoun

the process of keeping something in good condition

‘car maintenance’; ‘essential maintenance work’;

Maintenancenoun

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’;

Maintenancenoun

a husband's or wife's provision for their spouse after separation or divorce

‘a divorced man paying his ex-wife £2,500 a year maintenance’;

Maintenancenoun

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