upkeep — İngilizce Sözlük

İsim

1. Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.

   Kullanım

   • sayılamaz
   • usually

   Örnekler

   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.

   Diğer örnekler (1)

   The story of upkeep has been never-ending. Between 1997-2000, a major programme of maintenance entailed replacing superstructure timbers - 50 main rail beams were replaced with greenheart, along with a similar number of edge beams.

Fiil

1. To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.

   Kullanım

   • Britanya kullanımı
   • geçişli

   Örnekler

   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.

İsim

1. activity involved in maintaining something in good working order

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   caremaintenance

   Daha genel terimler

   repairfixfixingfixturemendmendingreparation

   Örnekler

   he wrote the manual on car care

2. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   sustenancesustentationsustainmentmaintenance

   Daha genel terimler

   support

   Örnekler

   they were in want of sustenance

   fishing was their main sustainment