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maintain English

Meaning maintain meaning

What does maintain mean?
Definitions in simple English

maintain Verb

— If you maintain something, you keep it at the same level. Who's more likely to maintain the status quo? UN forces will be used to help maintain stability in the area after the war. It's so important to maintain balance in all areas of your life. Vitamin B12 helps maintain healthy red blood cells in the body. Cook, maintaining a temperature of 350 degrees for 12 minutes. — If you maintain something, you say or write that it's a fact. Ford maintains the cars are safe. They have all hired lawyers and all three maintain their innocence. — If you maintain a machine, you keep it working well and fix it when it breaks. There was lots of money to buy the machines, but no money was available to maintain them.

maintain

— verb (= keep, hold) keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g keep clean hold in place She always held herself as a lady The students keep me on my toes — verb (= conserve, preserve, keep up) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction We preserve these archeological findings The old lady could not keep up the building children must be taught to conserve our national heritage The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts — verb (= sustain, keep) supply with necessities and support She alone sustained her family The money will sustain our good cause There's little to earn and many to keep — verb (= assert) state categorically — verb (= wield) have and exercise wield power and authority — verb state or assert He maintained his innocence — verb (= keep) maintain by writing regular records keep a diary maintain a record keep notes — verb (= uphold) support against an opponent The appellate court upheld the verdict — verb (= keep) maintain for use and service I keep a car in the countryside She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips — verb (= keep) stick to correctly or closely The pianist kept time with the metronome keep count I cannot keep track of all my employees

Synonyms maintain synonyms

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maintain English » English

keep preserve sustain support keep up hold conserve uphold continue assert retain protect contend observe defend claim persist carry on save last go on feed allege prop up proceed with nourish keep on back up affirm store safeguard profess patronize hold up have endure cherish bolster back wield wear take care of stick to stand by stabilize second restore reserve repair renovate

Topics maintain topics

What do people use maintain to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Insist
Work and occupation Work Method Use

Take care of something
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building materials

Building equipment and maintenance
States Quality Good Decay

Preserve
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Happy

Calm
Social behavior Conflict

War

Conjugation maintain conjugation

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maintain · verb

Examples maintain examples

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Simple sentences

I maintain that sports are a waste of time.
My income is barely enough to maintain living.
He is trying to maintain two jobs.
When chickens pancake-shape maintain, the tractor must have won again.
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
Laser printers are generally less expensive to maintain than ink jet printers.
To maintain a friendship, there must be mutual affection.
Astronauts are scheduled to exercise approximately two hours per day to maintain their health while on the ISS.
We build and maintain relationships with others.
Women use talking to maintain personal relationships.
He has to maintain a large family on a small salary.
It is important to maintain your body temperature at a suitable level.
Foundations maintain the structure of the building.
I maintain that I'm not at fault.
We must maintain a constant vigil.
Women who are happy with their premenopausal sex life are a lot more likely to be able to maintain that satisfaction post menopause.
Maintain a healthy state of mind.
I tried to maintain my composure.
The Lord does not completely destroy the Canaanite tribes in order to maintain spiritual wakefulness in his people.

Movie subtitles

I maintain, after many years of comparative analyses, that primitive moon-rock contains more gold than the earth's mountains.
How do you maintain authority?
After all, I must maintain my reserve.
But I doubt if we can maintain this speed on our regular schedule.
Maintain a quorum in relays.
It's my duty to warn you, and this goes for the rest of the territory, that any further demonstration of lawlessness or threats of violence will force me to send for troops from St. Michael to maintain order.
In order to maintain your position, you have only to match your number with those of the ships around you.
I still maintain we need Pablo.
To maintain his existence among the undead, Dracula had to be back in his coffin before sunrise.
Why maintain the fiction?
I still maintain there'd be no harm in you seeing Dr. Graves.
But to maintain Russia as a single State we have to be strong.
It's how you maintain your self-respect.
I still maintain. We're a legal body, properly impaneled.
All units, advance, and maintain fire.
Maintain communication with the Red Army.
Recalling Whale's working methods, Kent talked about Whale wanting to maintain control over all aspects of the productions.
Maintain discipline, not break it!
We must maintain peace at any cost.
Sir Benjamin's orders are to maintain peace.
The defence maintain Lady Dearden's five minute visit to Sunset View was unusual.
I doubt if we can maintain this speed on our regular schedule.
It's my duty to warn you that any further act of lawlessness will force me to send for troops to maintain order.
In order to maintain separate power from the medieval clergy state the predecessor of today's Dalai Lama deployed a small guard of about 10,000 men which he trained according to European standards.
There its armored warriors ride, fraught with the fanatic will to maintain their country's peace and isolation by virtue of their own strength and their own belief in whatever the future may bring.
The child will help me run the shop and thus maintain herself.
Maintain radio silence.
It helps maintain the home.
And yet you still maintain that you love me.
A piece of property we can't afford to maintain.
Do you maintain that you, yourself, were not the one?
You maintain your deposition?
I feel flustered. I maintain my composure.
We must also teach them to cherish hygiene and maintain cleanliness and beauty.
As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges.
Rebecca, once I enter these lists in combat I must maintain my name in arms.

News and current affairs

No, Kuchma wants to change Ukraine's constitution for no other reason than to maintain his grip on power.
It is the Czech Republic's task, and that of the Swedish EU presidency that will follow our own, to maintain this unity as the PCA negotiations move forward.
These countries did not want to be recipients of capital inflows, because they realized that this would wreak havoc with their need to maintain competitive currencies.
So how can Turkey under these conditions maintain confidence in the EU's fairness?
A team that is unable to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won't stand much of a chance.
Moreover, we must continue dealing with the technical and ecological issues surrounding the Chernobyl sarcophagus, as well as maintain nuclear safety in the remaining nuclear plants in operation in Ukraine, including what is left of Chernobyl.
That is why it is important to maintain some flexibility, to allow currently unregulated institutions like hedge funds and private-equity funds to be swept into the regulatory net if they become large and systemically important.
A bankrupt warlord, after all, cannot buy weapons or bribe people to maintain their loyalty.
That would widen the wage distribution, create jobs, and maintain the living standard of the poor.
But we should maintain hope and pressure on the international organizations and the rich countries.
In order to maintain absolutist power and to minimize public anger, the Saudi princes, led by Prince Naif, asked the reformers to sign an agreement that they would never again ask for reform.
For the Dreamliner to take off, ascend, and maintain a steady altitude, it must do more than move forward.
Of course, America did maintain economic dominance after 1945: the devastation of WWII in so many countries meant that the US produced nearly half of global GDP.
Depositors deserve strong, effective protection for their funds--and the banking system requires it in order to maintain confidence.
But this benign prospect was undermined by the violence needed to maintain the Jewish state and enable the emergence of a Palestinian one.
Dusan Prorokovic, Serbia's state secretary for Kosovo, has said that his country might use force to maintain its sovereignty.
Tax reform, however, can provide spur retraining and maintain incentives to work, even while fixing gaping fiscal holes.
Ferguson is correct that the US will have to come to terms with its budget deficit to maintain international confidence, but, as I show in my book The Future of Power, doing so is within the range of possible outcomes.
They will become familiar with the technology and learn how to maintain consistent quality in the production line.
European farmers also want to maintain current subsidy levels, and EU members say that they are unlikely to make any reductions before the end of the decade.
To guarantee that Iran never acquires a nuclear bomb, the US would need to maintain military pressure on Iran for several years.
Smug self-satisfaction makes us resistant to embracing the changes necessary to maintain our standard and quality of living.
On the contrary, the Allies chose to maintain the pact and to extend it to numerous Russian neighbors.

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