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Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.uncountableusually
- They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down.
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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.uncountableusually
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Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.UKuncountableusually
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Child support.uncountableusually
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Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.uncountableusually
- From Pond to Pond he roamed, from moor to moor; / Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance: / And in this way he gained an honest maintenance.
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The natural process which keeps an organism alive.uncountableusually
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Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.Philippinesabbreviationalt-of
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Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.attributiveuncountableusually
- a maintenance release; a maintenance version
maintenance
'meintәnәns9 senses · 6 ms
Level B1CET-4CET-6GREIELTS考研TOEFL
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To perform maintenance on a machine or system.