misconduct vs maintenance

maintenance vs misconduct

misconduct and maintenance both are nouns.

misconduct is a verb but maintenance is not a verb.

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

As nouns, maintenance is a hyponym of misconduct; that is, maintenance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than misconduct:

misconduct: activity that transgresses moral or civil law
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

Other hyponyms of misconduct include brutalisation, brutalization, encroachment, intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation, civil wrong, tort, malversation, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, dereliction, malfeasance, misfeasance, malpractice, malpractice, perversion, injury, injury, iniquity, injustice, shabbiness, unfairness, infliction, evildoing, transgression, dishonesty, knavery, falsification, misrepresentation, champerty, criminal maintenance, infringement, violation.

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

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

Difference between misconduct and maintenance

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