maintenance
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈmeɪntənəns/
:
sustento
- When survival was the primary goal in people's lives, maintenance of the social hierarchy was not likely to be a priority.
- maintenance of life
- contribute to maintenance
- income maintenance
It just gets people below their maintenance calories with relative ease.
- It just gets people below their maintenance calories with relative ease.
- But if I just don't eat for a whole day, then I'm back, you know, to, to maintenance.
- That urbanisation was the fastest non lethal method of ensuring population maintenance.
- So they are, we're finding out that these chemicals they produce are absolutely key to our healthy maintenance of our normal functions.
- If you are in a calorie maintenance mode or a if you're subcaloric, that's going to add to still additional fat loss.
- The complexity in terms of weight loss, weight maintenance is in no why?
- Most related to variations across the menstrual cycle in terms of let's just say diet maintenance or subcaloric diet.
- And but another person, their mate could be kind of on the same calorie spectrum for maintenance, they think, but they're actually sitting around all day.
Examples
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Various theories have been proposed to explain the maintenance of biodiversity in tropical communities.
Academic text (1992) -
Now, one side of this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity.
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An art specialist can serve in many ways to ensure the maintenance and development of a program.
Academic text (1991) -
I'm going to check around here because I do think, yeah, this one needed just a little bit of maintenance here, not much.
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The raising and provisioning of an army takes gold, as does the maintenance of its leaders.
Fiction book (1991) -
Routine tasks associated with subsistence and the maintenance of settlements could not be completed.
Academic text (1992) -
Thus, the future of Eritrea is tied to the maintenance of stability in Ethiopia itself.
Academic text (1991) -
There are at least three factors contributing to the maintenance of the continued social cohesion of the Catawba tribe.
Academic text (1995) -
Entitlement benefits/programs, composed primarily of income maintenance interventions, are the mainstay of public efforts to support the elderly.
Academic text (1991) -
The farmers relied on the maintenance of their crops to ensure they had enough food for the winter.
Synonyms
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2.0
Food and drink needed for growth and health
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5.7
Food and drink that keep you alive and healthy
16
6.6
Food and other things people need to live
16
5.5
Money or food needed to live
1
7.2
To provide food, water, and help so people can live
Help that keeps people alive by giving food or money
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
7
4.2
An organization that gives people group health insurance and care through a network of doctors for a yearly fee
- Archaic
Illegally helping or interfering in someone else's lawsuit to block a fair decision
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Morphology
Etymology
The word maintenance comes from Latin parts manu- meaning 'hand' and -tenere meaning 'to hold', like in manual. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of 'holding' someone's life by giving food or care so they can keep living, which is why maintenance here means sustaining life.