upkeep (uncountable)

1. Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.

   I would enjoy having a swimming pool, but I don't want to deal with the upkeep.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     […] it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates.

• French: entretien
• German: Wartung, Unterhalt
• Italian: manutenzione
• Russian: обслу́живание
• Spanish: mantenimiento

upkeep (upkeeps, present participle upkeeping; past and past participle upkept)

1. (transitive, British) To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.

   Do you know how to upkeep a boat?

• Italian: manutenere
• Russian: содержа́ть в исправность
• Spanish: mantener