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Maintenance vs Aftercare - What's the difference?

maintenance | aftercare |

As nouns the difference between maintenance and aftercare

is that maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service while aftercare is (medicine) the care given to a patient during recovery from an operation or after hospitalization.

maintenance

Alternative forms

* maintenaunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
  • (legal) 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.
  • (legal) (UK English) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
  • Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
  • See also

    * high-maintenance * low-maintenance * maintenance-free * maintenance window

    aftercare

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) The care given to a patient during recovery from an operation or after hospitalization.