Maintenance and Reference

Maintenance

Maintenance noun - The act or activity of keeping something in an existing and usually satisfactory condition.

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Reference and maintenance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reference" instead a noun "Maintenance".

Reference noun - Something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting information.

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Maintenance and reference are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maintenance" instead a noun "Reference".

good	good maintenance	good reference
full	full maintenance	full reference
similar	similar maintenance	similar reference
complete	complete maintenance	complete reference
Other adjectives: actual, constant, little, bad, quick, easy, frequent, last.

Call Forward: The Brick Joke "Skull Gun" mod (found in the soda machine while escaping UNATCO), which is a reference to a datacube found in Deus Ex: Invisible War's final level, where the maintenance man reveals that a "skull-gun" shipment was confiscated by UNATCO after it was delivered.

Source: Video Game / Shifter

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Reference and Maintenance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintenance/reference

Maintenance & Reference. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintenance/reference>.

Reference or Maintenance. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintenance/reference.

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