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maintenance vs mending

mending vs maintenance

maintenance and mending both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
maintenance Yes No No No
mending Yes No No No
As nouns, mending is a hypernym of maintenance; that is, mending is a word with a broader meaning than maintenance:
  • maintenance: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
  • mending: the act of putting something in working order again
Other hypernyms of maintenance include fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation.
maintenance (noun) mending (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 garments that must be repaired
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
means of maintenance of a family or group
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Difference between maintenance and mending

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