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maintenance

/meyn-tuh-nuhns/US // ˈmeɪn tə nəns //UK // (ˈmeɪntɪnəns) //

维护,维持,维修,维修保养

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
    • : the state of being maintained: the maintenance of friendly relations with England.
    • : care or upkeep, as of machinery or property: With proper maintenance the car will last for many years.
    • : means of upkeep, support, or subsistence; livelihood: to provide a comfortable maintenance.
    • : alimony or child support.
    • : Law. an officious meddling in a suit in which the meddler has no interest, by assisting either party with means to prosecute or defend it.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Pharmacology, Psychiatry. administered to sustain a desired physiological or mental condition: maintenance dose.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounperpetuation, support; sustenance

Examples

  • A lot of those emails, he says, are from school principals whose maintenance staff says the school should spend tens of thousands of dollars on high-tech HVAC systems.

  • You were happy because you dwell on my costs—in gas, vehicle maintenance, air quality, and lives—without appreciating the benefits I provide.

  • In the months since the pandemic cratered the price of oil, the financial fallout has spread from drilling companies to refineries and oilfield maintenance companies.

  • Right now, 25 percent of the franchise fee goes toward an environmental growth fund that’s supposed to help pay for park maintenance.

  • A separate site in Kearny Mesa, which the city began leasing in 2017 as a fire truck maintenance yard, has yet to service any actual fire trucks.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.

  • Further, there are maintenance crews who have to fix those drones.

  • But they have high fixed costs—overhead, maintenance, staff, and power.

  • After construction, the pipeline would employ about 50 people, primarily for maintenance.

  • It was never the intention of the Federal Reserve Act that member banks should continue the maintenance of these reserve accounts.

  • That, in the light of present conditions, is the most important thing for the necessary maintenance and defense of these islands.

  • It also authorised the construction and maintenance, as p. 150part of such railways, of any pier, quay or jetty.

  • Ordinarily the motive of the wrongdoer is not material in determining his maintenance of a nuisance.

  • They were instructed in all kinds of trades, were housed, married, and their whole maintenance provided for.