Maintenance vs. Repair

Maintenancenoun

Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service

Maintenancenoun

(legal) 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.

Maintenancenoun

Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.

Maintenancenoun

(legal) Child support.

Maintenancenoun

Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.

Maintenancenoun

(biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.

Maintenancenoun

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

Maintenancenoun

That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.

Maintenancenoun

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.

Maintenancenoun

Those actions required for the care of machinery, a building, etc., to keep it clean and in proper functioning condition, and to prevent or forestall damage due to normal use.

Maintenancenoun

Payments, such as child support or alimony, to a dependent child not living with one or to a divorced wife.

Maintenancenoun

activity involved in maintaining something in good working order;

Maintenancenoun

means of maintenance of a family or group

Maintenancenoun

court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

Maintenancenoun

the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence;

Maintenancenoun

the process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved

Maintenancenoun

the process of keeping something in good condition

Maintenancenoun

the provision of financial support for a person's living expenses, or the support so provided

Maintenancenoun

a husband's or wife's provision for their spouse after separation or divorce

Maintenancenoun

the offence of aiding a party in a legal action without lawful cause.

Repairnoun

The act of repairing something.

Repairnoun

The result of repairing something.

Repairnoun

The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.

Repairnoun

The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

Repairnoun

A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

Repairverb

To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

Repairverb

To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

Repairverb

To transfer oneself to another place.

Repairverb

to pair again

Repairverb

To return.

Repairverb

To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.

Repairverb

To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.

Repairverb

To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.

Repairnoun

The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

Repairnoun

Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.

Repairnoun

Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.

Repairnoun

Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

Repairnoun

the act of putting something in working order again

Repairnoun

a formal way of referring to the condition of something;

Repairnoun

a frequently visited place

Repairverb

restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;

Repairverb

make amends for; pay compensation for;

Repairverb

move, travel, or proceed toward some place;

Repairverb

set straight or right;

Repairverb

give new life or energy to;