In a sentence
Six example sentences with maintenance, each labelled with its topic.
Two engineers spend every Friday on maintenance, patching servers and replacing the disks that quietly fail in the rack.
Startups
The satellite ran twelve years without maintenance, so every failed component had to be routed around by software.
Technology
The studio budgeted monthly maintenance for the animatronic shark, since salt water corroded its cables during every ocean shoot.
Movies
The glass roof looks striking but demands constant maintenance, since every seal must be checked before the winter rains.
Architecture
Piano maintenance at the hall means a tuning before every concert and new felts on the hammers each spring.
Music
Court maintenance takes the crew two hours a night, mopping the hardwood and tightening every rim before practice.
Basketball
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Found in these word lists
Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
Each source is a published word list that contains maintenance. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.