maintenance
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- n activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- n means of maintenance of a family or group
- n court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
- n the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- n the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
- Alaska Airlines insists the investigation of its maintenance practices is aimed only at a specific kind of final check that is "above and beyond" what is required by the plane's .
- PTI was when the maintenance problem of armies consisted of little more than shoeing horses and hammering out the dents in a knight's armor.
- Taking a cue from the success of methadone maintenance treatment for heroin, researchers are testing whether substitute stimulants can help cocaine and methamphetamine addicts.