Maintenance vs Administer - What's the difference?
maintenance | administer |
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.
To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
* Macaulay
To apportion out.
* Spectator
* Macaulay
* Philips
To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
* Alexander Pope
To minister (to).
(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
To tender, as an oath.
* Shakespeare
In legal|lang=en terms the difference between maintenance and administer
is that maintenance is (legal) (uk english) alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce while administer is (legal) to settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.As a noun maintenance
is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.As a verb administer is
to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.maintenance
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(wikipedia maintenance)Alternative forms
* maintenaunceNoun
(en noun)See also
* high-maintenance * low-maintenance * maintenance-free * maintenance windowExternal links
* * * ----administer
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Alternative forms
* administre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
- A noxious drug had been administered to him.
- A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
- Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.
- [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.
- For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.
- administering to the sick
- Swear to keep the oath that we administer .