maintenance

/ˈmeɪntənəns/ noun [U]

Definition

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).

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 on: child maintenance

(Definition of maintenance noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)