care
maintenance
upkeep | activity involved in maintaining something in good working order, he wrote the manual on car care |
| scheduled maintenance | maintenance at a regularly scheduled time |
| maintenance criminal maintenance | the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community, unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit |
sustenance
sustentation
sustainment
maintenance upkeep | the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence, they were in want of sustenance, fishing was their main sustainment |
| account | the quality of taking advantage, she turned her writing skills to good account |
| account | importance or value, a person of considerable account, he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance |
model
theoretical account
framework | a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process, the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems |
pension plan
pension account
retirement plan
retirement savings plan
retirement savings account
retirement account
retirement program | a plan for setting aside money to be spent after retirement |
individual retirement account
IRA | a retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement, taxes on the interest earned in the account are deferred |
written record
written account | a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events |
history
account
chronicle
story | a record or narrative description of past events, a history of France, he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president, the story of exposure to lead |
| bill account invoice | an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered, he paid his bill and left, send me an account of what I owe |
| open account | an unpaid credit order |
| short account | the aggregate of short sales on an open market |
report
news report
story account write up | a short account of the news, the report of his speech, the story was on the o'clock news, the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious |
explanation
account | a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc., the explanation was very simple, I expected a brief account |
| report account | the act of informing by verbal report, he heard reports that they were causing trouble, by all accounts they were a happy couple |
| expense | a detriment or sacrifice, at the expense of |
service staff
maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
score
account | grounds, don't do it on my account, the paper was rejected on account of its length, he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful |
account executive
account representative
registered representative
customer's broker
customer's man | someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business |
goldbrick
goof-off
ne'er-do-well
good-for-nothing
no-account
good-for-naught | an idle worthless person |
repairman
maintenance man
service man | a skilled worker whose job is to repair things |
expense
disbursal
disbursement | amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) |
business expense
trade expense | ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in a taxpayer's business or trade |
| interest expense | interest paid on loans |
| lobbying expense | expenses incurred in promoting or evaluating legislation, many lobbying expenses are deductible by a taxpayer |
| medical expense | amount spent for diagnosis or treatment or prevention of medical problems |
| nonash expense | an expense (such as depreciation) that is not paid for in cash |
| moving expense | the cost of moving your residence from one location to another |
operating expense
operating cost
overhead
budget items | the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance), it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes |
| organization expense | the cost (over a period of five years) of organizing a new corporation or partnership |
| personal expense | the cost of personal or family living, some personal expenses are tax deductible |
| promotional expense | the cost of promoting a product |
| expense | money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer, he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting |
alimony
maintenance | court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated |
incidental expense
incidental
minor expense | (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified, he requested reimbursement of $ for incidental expenses |
| travel expense | (frequently plural) expenses incurred by an employee in the performance of the job and usually reimbursed by the employer |
health maintenance organization
HMO | group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians |
| brokerage account | a fund that a customer has entrusted to a securities brokerage, you can't get a brokerage account unless you have $, |
| cash account | an account with a securities brokerage whose transactions are settled on a cash basis |
| custodial account | a brokerage firm account that parents have created for a minor |
| margin account | an account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit |
account accounting
account statement | a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance, they send me an accounting every month |
| capital account | (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date |
| capital account | (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities |
| bank account | a fund that a customer has entrusted to a bank and from which the customer can make withdrawals, he moved his bank account to a new bank |
| giro account | an account at a post office that can be used in similar ways to an account at a bank |
savings account trust
savings bank trust
trust account
trustee account
Totten trust | a savings account deposited by someone who makes themselves the trustee for a beneficiary and who controls it during their lifetime, afterward the balance is payable to the previously named beneficiary |
checking account
chequing account
current account | a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand |