All maintaining synonyms
main·tain
M m adjective maintaining
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- at work — If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity.
- perdurable — very durable; permanent; imperishable.
- continuing — not ended; ongoing
- occupying — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- long-lived — having a long life, existence, or duration: a long-lived man; long-lived fame.
- retaining — to keep possession of.
noun maintaining
- persistency — the act or fact of persisting.
- contention — Someone's contention is the idea or opinion that they are expressing in an argument or discussion.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.
- continuation — The continuation of something is the fact that it continues, rather than stopping.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- demurrer — a pleading that admits an opponent's point but denies that it is a relevant or valid argument