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Maintenance vs Maintainable - What's the difference?

maintenance | maintainable |

As a noun maintenance

is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.

As an adjective maintainable is

able to be maintained.

maintenance

English

(wikipedia 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.

    • Related terms

    * maintain

    See also

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

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    maintainable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, in combination) Able to be maintained