Definition of Maintenance

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Maintenance

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.

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Maintenance Quotations

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Tim Allen

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Virginia Satir

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.
George Lincoln Rockwell

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Tony Visconti

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
Benjamin Tucker

Maintenance Translations

maintenance in French is maintien
maintenance in German is Verwaltung, Wartung, Pflege, Instandhaltung
maintenance in Italian is economato, manutenzione
maintenance in Spanish is vigilancia

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