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upkeep

/ˈʌpkip/

upkeep noun: maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.

Noun

upkeep (usually uncountable, plural upkeeps)

  1. (usually) Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.
    • I would enjoy having a swimming pool, but I don't want to deal with the upkeep.
    • […] it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

Verb

upkeep (third-person singular simple present upkeeps, present participle upkeeping, simple past and past participle upkept)

  1. (UK, transitive) To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.
    • Do you know how to upkeep a boat?
    • As for the city's buildings, it mostly resembled a town of white spires and cobblestone streets lined with flowerbeds that were upkept by magical means.2014, James Blackthorne, Meditations of Madness: The Lost Empires Exposed

upkeep meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

upkeep in Tamil

பரணம், பராமரிப்பு

upkeep in Urdu

نگہداری

upkeep in Malayalam

പരിപാലനം, പോഷണം, സംരക്ഷണോപായം

upkeep in Kannada

ಕಾಪಾಡುವಿಕೆ, ಸರಿಪಡಿಸುವಿಕೆ, ಸ್ವಚ್ಚವಾಗಿಡುವಿಕೆ, ಉತ್ತಮ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿಡುವಿಕೆ, ಉಸ್ತುವಾರಿ, ಮೇಲ್ವಿಚಾರಣೆ
More languagesFewer languages
upkeep in Gujarati
અપકીપીંગ, અપકીપિંગ

Forms of upkeep

Noun
pluralupkeeps
Verb
third-person singular presentupkeeps
present participleupkeeping
past participleupkept
pastupkept

Origin of upkeep

From up + keep.

Questions about upkeep

What does upkeep mean?
Upkeep means maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.
What is upkeep in Tamil?
Upkeep in Tamil is பரணம், பராமரிப்பு. See Upkeep meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upkeep?
Upkeep can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce upkeep?
Upkeep is pronounced /ˈʌpkip/ (US).
What is the plural of upkeep?
The plural of upkeep is upkeeps.

Words near upkeep in the dictionary

  1. upjetting
  2. UPJO
  3. Upjohn
  4. Upjohns
  5. upjumped
  6. upkeep
  7. upkeeped
  8. upkeeping
  9. upkeeps
  10. upkept
  11. upkick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upkeep (page history and authors); upkeep (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upkeep (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upkeep (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upkeep (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upkeep (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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