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 |
routine modus operandi | an unvarying or habitual method or procedure |
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 |
routine subroutine subprogram procedure function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
dump routine | a routine that writes from an internal store to some external medium |
input routine | a routine that writes from an external source to an internal store |
library routine | a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library |
output routine | a routine that controls an output device |
recursive routine | a routine that can call itself |
reusable routine | a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly |
supervisory routine executive routine | a routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines |
tracing routine | a routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program |
utility routine service routine | a routine that can be used as needed |
act routine number turn bit | a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program, he did his act three times every evening, she had a catchy little routine, it was one of the best numbers he ever did |
service staff maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
repairman maintenance man service man | a skilled worker whose job is to repair things |
alimony maintenance | court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated |
health maintenance organization HMO | group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians |
maintenance | means of maintenance of a family or group |
everyday mundane quotidian routine unremarkable workaday | found in the ordinary course of events, a placid everyday scene, it was a routine day, there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute- Anita Diamant |