Maintenance vs Livelihood - What's the difference?
maintenance | livelihood | Synonyms |
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.
(obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.
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*:wel said Merlyn I knowe a lord of yours in this land that is a passyng true man & a feithful / & he shal haue the nourysshyng of your child / & his name is sir Ector / & he is a lord of fair lyuelode in many partyes in Englond & walys
A person's means of supporting himself.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.4:
*:But now, when Philtra saw my lands decay / And former livelod fayle, she left me quight.
*Addison
*:the opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood
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*:It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives.
*2013 , Matthew Claughton, The Guardian , (letter), 25 April:
*:The legal profession believes that client choice is the best way of ensuring standards remain high, because a lawyer's livelihood depends upon their reputation.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts V:
*:Then sayde Peter: Ananias how is it that satan hath fillen thyne hert, thatt thou shuldest lye unto the holy goost, and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off thy lyvelod ?
(obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.
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