maintenance
英 ['me?nt(?)n?ns; -t?n-]
美['ment?n?ns]
- n. 维护，维修；保持；生活费用
英英释意
- 1. activity involved in maintaining something in good working order;
- "he wrote the manual on car care"
- 2. means of maintenance of a family or group
- 3. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
- 4. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence;
- "they were in want of sustenance"
- "fishing was their main sustainment"