Maintenance
Maintenance noun - The act or activity of keeping something in an existing and usually satisfactory condition.
Working and maintenance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead a noun "Maintenance".
Working
Working noun - A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked.
Maintenance and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maintenance" instead a noun "Working".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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A futuristic stage in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer has a maintenance droid suggest you do just that in order to get various broken-down mechanics working again.
Source: Percussive Maintenance -
When a security camera stops working, ignoring it instead of sounding the alarm, or at the very least getting a maintenance team onto it ASAP with accompanying guards.
Source: The Guards Must Be Crazy -
This is when he tries Percussive Maintenance on the dash to try to get them working again, as his friend showed him before.
Source: Percussive Maintenance
Cite this Source
Working and Maintenance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintenance/working
Maintenance & Working. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintenance/working>.
Working or Maintenance. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintenance/working.
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