Noun
The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnother flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. Edward Bellamy
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. Frank B. Kellogg
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace. Ludwig Quidde
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. Terry Gilliam