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| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | alimony, allowance, bacon*, bread, bread and butter, care, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, provision, resources, salt*, subsistence, supply, upkeep, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, carrying, prolongation, repairs, retainment, sustaining, sustainment, sustention |
| Antonyms: | desertion, ignorance, neglect, forsaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | alimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money paid in support of a former spouse |
| Synonyms: | keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, provision, subsistence, sustenance, upkeep, remittance |
| Main Entry: | assertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration, positive statement |
| Synonyms: | affirmation, allegation, asservation, attestation, avowal, contention, defense, insistence, maintenance, mouthful, okay, predication, profession, pronouncement, report, say so, stamp of approval, stressing, two cents' worth, vindication |
| Antonyms: | denial, rejection |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, control, custody, economy, governing, guardianship, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, protection, safekeeping, salvation, saving, storage, supervision, upkeep, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, directing, guarding, preserval, preserving, protecting, safeguarding, stewardship, supervising, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | destruction, neglect, waste, spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | livelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupation |
| Synonyms: | art, bread and butter, business, circumstances, craft, employment, game*, grind*, income, job, keep*, living, maintenance, means, profession, racket*, rat race*, resources, slot, subsistence, support, sustenance, thing*, trade, vocation, work, alimentation, nine-to-five, source of income, what one is into |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | living |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lifestyle; source of income |
| Synonyms: | bread and butter, existence, income, job, keep*, livelihood, maintenance, means, mode, occupation, salt*, subsistence, support, sustenance, way, work, alimentation, sustainment, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | diet, feed, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, support, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles*, aliment, foodstuff, home cooking, pap |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Notes: | relief (standing out) and intaglio (sunken) are opposites in art |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | running |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, care, charge, conduct, control, direction, handling, leadership, maintenance, operation, organization, oversight, performance, regulation, supervision, working, coordination, functioning, intendance, superintendency |
| Main Entry: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bread*, bread and butter, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt*, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, necessities |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
| Synonyms: | aid, bacon*, bread*, bread and butter, comestible, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt*, subsistence, support, wherewithal, aliment, daily bread, eatables, edibles, pap, victual |
| Antonyms: | extras |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adoption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | choosing or taking something as one's own |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, approbation, appropriation, approval, assumption, choice, confirmation, enactment, endorsement, following, maintenance, ratification, selection, support, embracement, embracing, espousal, taking on, taking over, taking up |
| Antonyms: | pass, rejection, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance, relief |
| Synonyms: | advice, aid, assist, avail, balm*, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility |
| Antonyms: | check, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop, blockage, counteraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, office, overhaul, supply, use, usefulness, utility, value, work, applicability, ministration, relevance, serviceability, servicing |
| Antonyms: | damage, disservice, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | oversight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | care, supervision |
| Synonyms: | administration, aegis, charge, check, control, custody, direction, guard, guardianship, handling, inspection, keep, keeping, maintenance, management, surveillance, tutelage, intendance, superintendence |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false claim, assertion of importance |
| Synonyms: | allegation, ambition, aspiration, assumption, charade, declaration, demand, disguise, maintenance, make-believe, pageant, pretense, pretext, profession, title, ambitiousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
| Main Entry: | support |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food, money, possessions for staying alive |
| Synonyms: | alimony, allowance, care, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, nutriment, payment, provision, relief, responsibility, stock, subsidy, subsistence, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, alimentation, necessities, stores |
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