| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
Synonyms: |
aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, bacon, bread, bread and butter, care, carrying, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, prolongation, provision, repairs, resources, retainment, salt, subsistence, supply, sustaining, sustainment, sustention, upkeep, wherewithal |
Antonyms: |
desertion, forsaking, ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | adoption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | choosing or taking something as one's own |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, approbation, appropriation, approval, assumption, choice, confirmation, embracement, embracing, enactment, endorsement, espousal, following, maintenance, ratification, selection, support, taking on, taking over, taking up |
Antonyms: |
pass, rejection, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | alimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money paid in support of a former spouse |
Synonyms: |
keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, provision, remittance, subsistence, sustenance, upkeep |
| 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, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, control, custody, directing, economy, governing, guardianship, guarding, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preserving, protecting, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvation, saving, stewardship, storage, supervising, supervision, sustentation, upkeep |
Antonyms: |
destruction, neglect, spending, squandering, waste |
| 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: |
blockage, check, counteraction, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop |
| Main Entry: | livelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupation |
Synonyms: |
alimentation, art, bread and butter, business, circumstances, craft, employment, game*, grind*, income, job, keep*, living, maintenance, means, nine-to-five, profession, racket, rat race, resources, slot, source of income, subsistence, support, sustenance, thing*, trade, vocation, what one is into, work |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, fun |
| Main Entry: | living |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lifestyle; source of income |
Synonyms: |
alimentation, bread and butter, existence, income, job, keep*, livelihood, maintenance, means, mode, occupation, salt, subsistence, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, way, work |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, fun |
| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
Synonyms: |
aliment, diet, feed, foodstuff, home cooking, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, support, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles |
Antonyms: |
deprivation, starvation |
| Main Entry: | oversight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | care, supervision |
Synonyms: |
administration, aegis, charge, check, control, custody, direction, guard, guardianship, handling, inspection, intendance, keep, keeping, maintenance, management, superintendence, surveillance, tutelage |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, neglect |