Maintenance vs. Maintaining

Maintenancenoun

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

Maintainingnoun

The act of doing maintenance.

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.

Maintaining

Maintaining is a 2007-2009 comic strip by cartoonist Nate Creekmore.Creekmore is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning. Creekmore's strip first appeared in the newspaper at Lipscomb University in Nashville.

Maintenancenoun

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

Maintenancenoun

(legal) Child support.

Maintenancenoun

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

Maintenancenoun

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

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.’;

Maintenancenoun

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

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

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.