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Maintenance vs Subsistence - What's the difference?

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Maintenance is a related term of subsistence.


As nouns the difference between maintenance and subsistence

is that maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service while subsistence is real being; existence.

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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    subsistence

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Real being; existence.
  • Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
  • Means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; That which furnishes support to animal life; as, a meager subsistence.
  • *
  • (theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis.

    • Synonyms

    * sustenance * (theology) hypostasis

    Related terms

    * subsist * subsistent

    External links

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