maintenance

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

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

4. 4

   Child support.

5. 5

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

6. 6

   The natural process which keeps an organism alive.