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Renovate vs Maintenance - What's the difference?

renovate | maintenance |

As a verb renovate

is to renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.

As a noun maintenance is

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

renovate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
  • This house is shabby, it needs renovating.
  • To restore to freshness or vigor.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * renovation

    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