Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who m aintains, supports, sustains, or upholds. In legal use, maintainor (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who maintains.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
keeps orupholds something. - noun A person who does
maintenance work. - noun dentistry A
device used to keepteeth in a givenposition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who upholds or maintains
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, looking at the IM services we support, many of them don't have a current "maintainer" who is ultimately responsible for the plugin.
Pidgin News 2010
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It shows that Song's "maintainer" is Xianao's general manager Li Shilin.
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"I want to state quite catagorically that the SAP played a totally destructive role as the so-called maintainer of law and order.
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For the module maintainer it should be obvious if this is an upstream bug and he will just have to hit this button to inform the upstream maintainer.
Planning for 10.10: Improving How We Review Patches | jonobacon@home 2010
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Kudos to Michael Budde for taking over the reigns on Lernid as the new maintainer, and for the fantastic little Lernid community for making such a stunning release!
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(Break up the monopoly, with a monopolist pipe-maintainer, and competitive water suppliers.)
Water as a Private Good, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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All of this awesome content is best experienced using Lernid and I have asked Michael, the new Lernid maintainer if he can roll a new release this weekend.
Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week Update | jonobacon@home 2010
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Kudos to Michael Budde for taking over the reigns on Lernid as the new maintainer, and for the fantastic little Lernid community for making such a stunning release!
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While not every successful maintainer strength trains, the NWCR data show that the numbers of those who do are growing.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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The average maintainer in this study lost a mean of 565 pounds before the weight loss finally stuck.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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