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maintenance   Show phonetics
noun [U]
1 WORK the work that is done to keep something in good condition
car maintenance
I want a garden that's very low maintenance (= easy to look after).

2 MONEY UK regular amounts of money that someone must pay after they have left their family so that the family still has money to live
child maintenance

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