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Maintenance vs Repairing - What's the difference?

maintenance | repairing |

As nouns the difference between maintenance and repairing

is that maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service while repairing is the act by which something is repaired; a mending.

As a verb repairing 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

    External links

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    repairing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is repaired; a mending.
  • * 1800 , James Jones Morgan, Epistolary Correspondence (page 14)
    • he would not consent to raise any part of the money advanced on the gates, notwithstanding the necessity of the repairings , and the conveniences which would ensue to the school from it.