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 |
| clause | (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence |
main clause
independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
| coordinate clause | a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function |
subordinate clause
dependent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb |
| relative clause | a clause introduced by a relative pronoun, `who visits frequently' is a relative clause in the sentence `John, who visits frequently, is ill' |
| restrictive clause | a subordinate clause that limits or restricts the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies |
nonrestrictive clause
descriptive clause | a subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies |
| article clause | a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) |
| arbitration clause | a clause in a contract providing for arbitration of disputes arising under the contract |
escalator clause
escalator | a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index) |
| reserve clause | a clause that used to be part of the contract with a professional athlete extending the contract for a year beyond its expiration, the reserve clause was used to bind players to a particular ball club |
enabling act
enabling clause | a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law |
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 |
| grandfather clause | an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy, used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil War |