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Maintenance vs Rehabilitate - What's the difference?

maintenance | rehabilitate |

As a noun maintenance

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

As a verb rehabilitate is

to restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.

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.
  • See also

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

    rehabilitate

    English

    Verb

    (rehabilitat)
  • To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.
  • To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.).
  • To return (something) to its original condition.
  • (North America) To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again.
  • To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain.
  • To return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction etc.
  • To go through such a process; to recover.
  • Quotations

    * I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parenthesis, capital letters, quotated, read the following words: :: (“KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?”) : —, 1967 * Attempts to rehabilitate liberals on this point are futile. It's in their DNA. *: 2006

    Derived terms

    * rehab * rehabilitation * rehabilitative