upkeep (n.)

• aid
• backing
• bread
• care
• carriage
• conservancy
• conservation
• endowment
• expenditure
• keep
• keeping
• livelihood
• living
• maintenance
• manna
• meat
• nourishment
• nurture
• operation
• outlay
• overhead
• preservation
• protection
• provision
• reliance
• repair
• running
• safekeeping
• salvage
• salvation
• saving
• subsidization
• subsidy
• subsistence
• subvention
• support
• sustainment
• sustenance
• sustentation