maintenance vs misconduct

misconduct vs maintenance

maintenance and misconduct both are nouns.

maintenance is not a verb while misconduct is a verb.

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

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

maintenance: 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
misconduct: activity that transgresses moral or civil law

Other hypernyms of maintenance include actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct.

maintenance (noun)	misconduct (noun)
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order	activity that transgresses moral or civil law
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence	bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf
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

maintenance (verb)	misconduct (verb)
	manage badly or incompetently
	behave badly

Difference between maintenance and misconduct

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