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Upkeep vs Sustenance - What's the difference?

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Upkeep is a related term of sustenance.


As nouns the difference between upkeep and sustenance

is that upkeep is maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good repair while sustenance is something that provides support or nourishment.

As a verb upkeep

is (british) to maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.

upkeep

English

Noun

(-)
  • Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good repair
    • I would enjoy having a swimming pool, but I don't want to deal with the upkeep .
  • *
    • it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British) To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.
    • Do you know how to upkeep a boat?

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    sustenance

    English

    Noun

  • Something that provides support or nourishment.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}

    Synonyms

    Related terms

    * subsistence * sustain