In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
UPKEEP
care, maintenance, upkeep
(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; āhe wrote the manual on car careā
sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeep
(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; āthey were in want of sustenanceā; āfishing was their main sustainmentā
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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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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