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upkeep

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Noun
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up=keep

CIDE DICTIONARY

upkeepn. 
  •  The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance of persons, organizations, or objects such as machinery, by providing a location, repairs, and consumable items when necessary.  Scribner's Mag.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    "Small outlays for repairs or upkeep of buildings."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  the cost of providing upkeep{1}.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

upkeep, n.
1 maintenance in good condition.
2 the cost or means of this.

THESAURUS

upkeep

TLC, aid, backing, bread, care, carriage, carrying, conservancy, conservation, conservationism, daily bread, economic support, endowment, environmental conservation, expenditure, forest conservation, forest management, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, maintenance, manna, meat, moral support, mothering, nourishment, nurture, operating costs, operation, outlay, overhead, preserval, preservation, price support, protection, provision, psychological support, reliance, repair, running, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, saving, security blanket, soil conservation, stream conservation, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tender loving care, upholding, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation

For further exploring for "upkeep" in Webster Dictionary Online


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