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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn: care, maintenance, upkeep]
2: the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment" [syn: sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeep]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1884 1. the act of maintaining in good condition ; the state of being maintained in good condition 2. the cost of maintaining in good condition

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 maintenance in good condition. 2 the cost or means of this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Upkeep Up"keep`, n. The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance. ``Horse artillery . . . expensive in the upkeep.'' --Scribner's Mag. Small outlays for repairs or upkeep of buildings. --A. R. Colquhoun.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. The upkeep of a building or place is the work of keeping it in good condition. The money will be used for the estate's upkeep... The maintenance department is responsible for the general upkeep of the park. = maintenance N-UNCOUNT: usu with poss 2. The upkeep of a group of people or services is the process of providing them with the things that they need. He offered to pay £100 a month towards his son's upkeep. = maintenance N-UNCOUNT: usu with poss

Moby Thesaurus

TLC, aid, backing, bread, care, carriage, carrying, conservancy, conservation, conservationism, daily bread, economic support, endowment, environmental conservation, expenditure, forest conservation, forest management, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, maintenance, manna, meat, moral support, mothering, nourishment, nurture, operating costs, operation, outlay, overhead, preserval, preservation, price support, protection, provision, psychological support, reliance, repair, running, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, saving, security blanket, soil conservation, stream conservation, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tender loving care, upholding, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation