maintenance
Definition 1
General: Activities required to conserve—as nearly, and as long, as possible—the original condition of an asset or resource while compensating for normal wear and tear.
Definition 2
Accounting: Periodic cost incurred in activities that preserve an asset's operational status without extending its life. Maintenance is an expense that, unlike capital improvement (which extends an asset's life), is not capitalized.
Definition 3
Engineering: Actions necessary for retaining or restoring an equipment, machine, or system to the specified operable condition to achieve its maximum useful life. It includes corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance.
Definition 4
Law: (1) Intermeddling in a litigation (without having a genuine stake) by taking sides, upholding of quarrels, and/or giving financial or other assistance to one of the litigant parties. See also champerty. (2) Financial support or supply of necessities given on court orders by one party to another such as upon a divorce or legal separation.
maintenance is in the Accounting & Auditing, Corporate, Commercial, & General Law, Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership and Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology subjects.
maintenance appears in the definitions of the following terms:
business needs,
private foundation,
core activities,
total cost of quality,
taxation principles,
support process,
life cycle of a record,
operating lease,
service,
labor intensive
and
maintenance appears in the other terms:
maintenance strategy,
maintenance of value clause,
maintenance lease,
full maintenance lease,
field maintenance,
autonomous maintenance,
hard time maintenance,
maintenance bond,
maintenance capability,
capital maintenance
and
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