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Plural of maintenance

regular plural

The plural of maintenance is maintenances.

Forms of maintenance

Singularmaintenance /ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/
Pluralmaintenances
Countableusually uncountable

Meaning of maintenance

  1. noun Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.

Full definition of maintenance

Questions about the plural of maintenance

What is the plural of maintenance?
The plural of maintenance is maintenances.
Is maintenance countable?
Maintenance is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maintenance (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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