MAINTENANCE
maintenance
Noun
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
- 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.
- A provision ordered to be made by way of periodical payments or a lump sum, as after a divorce for a spouse.
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