Usually means: Keeps in an existing state.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. maintains: Merriam-Webster
  2. maintains: Collins English Dictionary
  3. maintains: Vocabulary.com
  4. Maintains, maintains: Wordnik
  5. maintains: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. maintains: Wiktionary
  7. maintains: Dictionary.com
  8. maintains: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. maintains: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maintains: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maintains: Idioms

(Note: See maintain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (maintain)

verb:  To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
verb:  To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
verb:  To keep in good condition and working order.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
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