maintenance
maintenance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences. Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance. Swift.
- 2.(Crim. Law) 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. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- act
- acting
- action
- agency
- annulment
- away
- bear
- bring
- causation
- come
- cuckold
- despair
- disespouse
- divorce
- divorcee
- divorcement
- doing
- dowager
- effect
- effectual
- efficacious
- efficient
- exercise
- foot
- force
- free
- function
- grass
- have
- home
- influence
- instrumentality
- interaction
- interworking
- into
- judicial
- lest
- live
- maintain
- merry
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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