maintenance vs fixing

fixing vs maintenance

maintenance and fixing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
maintenance	Yes	No	No	No
fixing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fixing is a hypernym of maintenance; that is, fixing is a word with a broader meaning than maintenance:

maintenance: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
fixing: the act of putting something in working order again

Other hypernyms of maintenance include fix, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation.

maintenance (noun)	fixing (noun)
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order	the act of putting something in working order again
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence	the sterilization of an animal
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	(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
means of maintenance of a family or group	restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

Difference between maintenance and fixing

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