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 |
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
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 |
agreement
correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
agreement
arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
purchase contract
purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
| fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
articles of agreement
shipping articles | a contract between crew and captain of a ship |
labor contract
labor agreement
collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
employment contract
employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
| distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
| licensing agreement | contract giving someone the legal right to use a patent or trademark |
merger agreement
acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
sale
sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
| agreement understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises, they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business, there was an understanding between management and the workers |
| working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
| gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding |
| written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
| agreement | the verbal act of agreeing |
| severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
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 |
| agreement concord | the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
| number agreement | agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
| person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
| case agreement | agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction |
| gender agreement | agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction |
| agreement accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters, the two parties were in agreement |
agreed
in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |