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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun upkeep has 2 senses

• upkeep(n = noun.act) care, maintenance - activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"
is a kind of fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation
has particulars: camera care, car care, inspection and repair, overhaul, service, pump priming, scheduled maintenance, steam fitting

• upkeep(n = noun.act) maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation - the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
is a kind of support

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THESAURUS

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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