noun
- Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
- Child support.
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
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