liquidation
settlement | termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities |
viatical settlement
viaticus settlement | sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder |
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 |
colonization
colonisation
settlement | the act of colonizing, the establishment of colonies, the British colonization of America |
| settlement house | a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services |
settlement
resolution closure | something settled or resolved, the outcome of decision making, they finally reached a settlement with the union, they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences, he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure |
marriage contract
marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
| settlement | a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it |
| out-ofourt settlement | resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court |
| property settlement | (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage |
village
small town
settlement | a community of people smaller than a town |
service staff
maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
colony
settlement | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland, inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government, the American colony in Paris |
frontier settlement
outpost | a settlement on the frontier of civilization |
| settlement | an area where a group of families live together |
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 |
| viatical settlement | cash derived from sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder |
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 |