maintenance
/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/ verb C2- To perform maintenance on a machine or system.
He/she/it maintenances · Past maintenanced · Past participle maintenanced · -ing form maintenancing
Verb forms
- Base form
- maintenance
- He/she/it
- maintenances
- Past
- maintenanced
- Past participle
- maintenanced
- -ing form
- maintenancing
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A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance.
A CERTAIN MAN, detained by a storm in his country house, first of all killed his sheep, and then his goats, for the maintenance of his household.
The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance.
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