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Maintenance vs Providing - What's the difference?

maintenance | providing |

As nouns the difference between maintenance and providing

is that maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service while providing is something provided; a provision.

As a verb providing is

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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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    providing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something provided; a provision.
  • * 1869 , Justin Dewey Fulton, The true woman (page 108)
    • the neglect of domestic duties, on the part of many wives, is, no doubt, attributable to the slovenly tenements, and inadequate providings , and careless neglect of the husbands.