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How to pronounce “maintenance”
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Pronunciation guide for maintenance
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of maintenance with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Deborah Gordon: The emergent genius of ant colonies 20 minutes
Then the nest maintenance workers work inside the nest,
- Definition summary
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce maintenance
Deborah Gordon: The emergent genius of ant colonies 20 minutes
Then the nest maintenance workers work inside the nest,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “maintenance”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) 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.
- (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (law) Child support.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
- (Philippines, medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
- (software engineering, attributive) Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
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