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# maintenance

«maintenance» in Mova's school dictionary: **Work done to keep a building, machine, road and so on in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (maintenance — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Work done to keep a building, machine, road and so on in good working order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#m1)

2) (UK, Ireland, Australia) Money paid regularly by one parent to help look after a child after a divorce or separation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#m2)

3) Keeping something at the same level (weight maintenance). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#m3)

4) Maintenance can also mean the food and supplies that keep a person or household alive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: bike maintenance, car maintenance, the maintenance team fixing a leaking roof at school. In safety: machines and lifts need regular maintenance. Phrases: under maintenance, maintenance work, low maintenance (needs little care), high maintenance (needs a lot of care or attention, sometimes said of people, informally).

### examples

- The pool is closed for maintenance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x1)
- Bike maintenance includes pumping tyres and oiling the chain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x2)
- The school's maintenance man fixed the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x3)
- The website is down for maintenance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x4)
- A cactus is a low-maintenance plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x5)
- Regular maintenance keeps the lifts safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x6)
- Dad pays maintenance for my brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x7)
- A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/#x8)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: maintain — spelling trap: maintain but mainTENance (not "maintainance"). "High maintenance" about a person is informal and a bit rude.

### In the corpora

- [And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household; and maintenance for thy maidens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.804/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «maintenance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maintenance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.