UPKEEP

care, maintenance, upkeep

(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; “he wrote the manual on car care”

sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeep

(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; “they were in want of sustenance”; “fishing was their main sustainment”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

upkeep (usually uncountable, plural upkeeps)

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

Verb

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

(transitive, British) To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.

Anagrams

• keep up

Source: Wiktionary


Up"keep`, n.

Definition: The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance. "Horse artillery . . . expensive in the upkeep." Scribner's Mag.

Small outlays for repairs or upkeep of buildings. A. R. Colquhoun.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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