maintenance
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She insists that maintenance is the key to beautiful hands and nails.
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- noun The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained.
- noun The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep.
- noun Provision of support or livelihood: took over the maintenance of her family.
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- Sebastian Hetzer had worked in maintenance at the refinery since his discharge from the Army after Korea, the personnel man told me. — Ask the Cards a Question
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She insists that maintenance is the key to beautiful hands and nails.
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But as the sum allowed for the maintenance is also to cease from the day of her nuptials, and the money to accumulate until he is of age, she would, by marrying a poor man, do irreparable injury to her son, by cramping his education.
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"No. But as the sum allowed for the maintenance is also to cease from the day of her nuptials, and the money to accumulate until he is of age, she would, by marrying a poor man, do irreparable injury to her son, by cramping his education.
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But the maintenance is the important thing.
— CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006
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- Middle English maintenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, to maintain; see maintain.
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/ (mānˈtə-nəns)/
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