criminal maintenance, maintenance - the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
Example:- unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep - the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
Example:- they were in want of sustenance
maintenance - means of maintenance of a family or group
alimony, maintenance - court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
care, maintenance, upkeep - activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
Example:- he wrote the manual on car care