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maintain
Verb
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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.
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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.
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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.
capital
Noun
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A capital is the most important city of a country. The government of the country is usually located there.
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The (field) capital is the most important city in that particular field.
Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
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A person's capital is all his money and wealth.
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A capital forms the topmost member of a column or pilaster. It broadens the area of the column's supporting surface.
capital
Adjective
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A capital object or idea is something that is very important.
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very good.
That is a capital idea!
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Involving punishment by death.
Not all felonies are capital crimes.
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One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
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News and current affairs
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.