Look up: maintenance

1. maintenance
   (programming) The modification of a software product, after delivery, to correct faults, to improve performance or other attributes, or to adapt the product to a changed environment. Maintenance is an important part of the software life-cycle. It is expensive in manpower and resources, and one of th...
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2. maintenance
   [n] - means of maintenance of a family or group
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3. Maintenance
   A legally enforceable payment made to assist in the cost of bringing up a dependent
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4. Maintenance
   The activity of keeping equipment and facilities in a safe and reliable condition so that they can perform their function efficiently.
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5. Maintenance
   Wide term to cover the provision of food, clothing, shelter and other necessities. A parent must maintain any of their children who are minors and a husband or wife must maintain their spouse. Failure by a parent to maintain their minor child is a criminal offence.
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6. maintenance
   In law, payments to support children or a spouse, under the terms of an agreement, or by a court order. In Britain, financial provision orders are made on divorce, but a court action can also be...
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7. Maintenance
   Routine inspection and minor repair of paths on a regular basis; includes clearing out drains, surface repair, site restoration.
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8. maintenance
   all inspections, servicing, modification and repair throughout the life of an aircraft needed to ensure that the aircraft remains in compliance with the type certification and offers a high level of safety in all circumstances; this shall include in particular modifications imposed by the authoritie...
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9. Maintenance
   all the operations necessary to maintain it in a serviceable condition until the end of its life, comprising routine maintenance (routine work carried out with the aim of preventing or controlling deterioration, including inspection and monitoring activities) and essential maintenance (rehabilitiati...
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10. Maintenance
    continuous care of a building's fabric. Should be distinguished from repair which can embrace restoration or reconstruction.
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11. Maintenance
    The activity associated with systems that are operational. The focus of maintenance is to keep the operational systems available to the users.
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12. Maintenance
    A payment made to a former spouse or child, following divorce or legal separation. Tax relief may be claimed by the payee while the amount may have to be included in the taxable income for the recipient.
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13. maintenance
    A payment made to a former spouse or child, following divorce or legal separation. Tax relief may be claimed by the payee while the amount may have to be included in the taxable income for the recipient.
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14. Maintenance
    Main'te·nance noun [ Old French maintenance . See Maintain .] 1. The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication. « Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his serv...
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15. maintenance
    The upkeep of property or equipment. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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16. maintenance
    noun means of maintenance of a family or group
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17. maintenance
    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 unnecessar...
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18. Maintenance
    Appropriate ongoing adjustments to security holder records.
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19. maintenance
    (mān´tә-nәns) term used for measures that provide a stable state over a long period of time, as opposed to more short-term remedial effects; said of a drug or treatment. the stable state that such a procedure or drug provides.
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20. Maintenance
    • (n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences. • (n.) 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. • (n.) The act of maint...
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21. maintenance
    (from the article `harbours and sea works`) Methods of underwater scaling and painting, or the use of limpet dams with which small areas can be covered with watertight enclosures inside of ... Modern machinery enables a small group of workers to maintain a relatively long stretch of railroad track. Machines are available to do all the ....
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22. Maintenance
    (F maintenance, R intretinere) combination of any actions carried out to retain an item in, or restore it to, an acceptable condition (BS 5405)
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23. maintenance
    Modification of a software product after delivery to correct defects, to improve performance or other attributes, or to adapt the product to a modified environment. [IEEE 1219]...
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24. maintenance
    the combination of all technical and administrative actions, including supervision actions, intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform a required function
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25. Maintenance
    In a divorce or separation, the money paid by one spouse to the other in order to fulfill the financial obligation that comes with marriage. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find maintenance for his childre...
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