Inspection vs. Maintenance — What's the Difference?

An inspection is, most generally, an organized examination or formal evaluation exercise. In engineering activities inspection involves the measurements, tests, and gauges applied to certain characteristics in regard to an object or activity.

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

The act of inspecting.

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

Official examination or review, as of barracks or troops.

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

The act of examining something, often closely.

The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained

An organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.

The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep

The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation.

Provision of support or livelihood

The act of overseeing; official examination or superintendence.

Means of support or livelihood

A formal or official examination;

(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.

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

(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.

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

(legal) Child support.

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;