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upkeep 音標拼音: ['ʌpk ,ip] n. 維持,維修費 維持,維修費 upkeep維持; 維護 upkeep n 1: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; " he wrote the manual on car care" [ synonym: { care}, { maintenance}, { upkeep}] 2: the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; " they were in want of sustenance"; " fishing was their main sustainment" [ synonym: { sustenance}, { sustentation}, { sustainment}, { maintenance}, { upkeep}] Upkeep \ Up" keep`\, n. 1. The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance of persons, organizations, or objects such as machinery, by providing a location, repairs, and consumable items when necessary. " Horse artillery . . . expensive in the upkeep." -- Scribner' s Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. PJC] Small outlays for repairs or upkeep of buildings. -- A. R. Colquhoun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. the cost of providing upkeep[ 1]. [ PJC] 64 Moby Thesaurus words for " upkeep": TLC, aid, backing, bread, care, carriage, carrying, conservancy, conservation, conservationism, daily bread, economic support, endowment, environmental conservation, expenditure, forest conservation, forest management, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, maintenance, manna, meat, moral support, mothering, nourishment, nurture, operating costs, operation, outlay, overhead, preserval, preservation, price support, protection, provision, psychological support, reliance, repair, running, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, saving, security blanket, soil conservation, stream conservation, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tender loving care, upholding, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation
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