maintenance vs transfer

maintenance

noun
  • 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. 

  • Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce. 

  • Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family. 

transfer

verb
  • To be or become transferred. 

  • To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else. 

  • To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey. 

  • To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another. 

  • To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another. 

noun
  • A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another. 

  • The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another. 

  • A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer. 

  • An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal. 

  • A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another. 

  • A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side. 

  • An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey. 

  • A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey. 

  • The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another. 

  • A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit. 

How often have the words maintenance and transfer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )