maintenance

noun8

1. •
   care given to a machine or a system at regular times so that it keeps working

   • They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down. — 2019
2. •
   [before a noun] Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
3. •
   (UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
4. •
   Child support.
5. •
   Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.

   • From Pond to Pond he roamed, from moor to moor; / Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance: / And in this way he gained an honest maintenance. — 1815
6. •
   The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
7. •
   A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
8. •
   (Philippines, informal) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.