noun
                                                activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
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                                                                                                        - he wrote the manual on car care
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                means of maintenance of a family or group
                                                
                                                                                             
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
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                                                noun
                                                the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
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                                                                                                        - they were in want of sustenance
- fishing was their main sustainment
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
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                                                                                                                                                                        criminal maintenance
                                                                                                                                                            
                                                
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                                                                                                        - unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit