maintenance

/ˈmeɪntənəns/ noun [U]

Translation

WORK › the work that is done to keep something in good condition

bakım onarım

car maintenance I want a garden that's very low maintenance (= easy to look after).789

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

nafaka

child maintenance 794

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

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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