Cleaning vs Maintenance - What's the difference?
cleaning | maintenance |
(gerund of clean) A situation in which something is cleaned
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The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
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.
As nouns the difference between cleaning and maintenance
is that cleaning is a situation in which something is cleaned while maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.As a verb cleaning
is present participle of lang=en.cleaning
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