Usually means: Keep or preserve in condition.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word maintain:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. maintain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. maintain: Merriam-Webster
  3. maintain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. maintain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. maintain: Collins English Dictionary
  6. maintain: Vocabulary.com
  7. Maintain, maintain: Wordnik
  8. maintain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. maintain: Wiktionary
  10. maintain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. maintain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. maintain: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Maintain, maintain: Dictionary.com
  14. maintain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. maintain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Maintain (Belly song), Maintain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Maintain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. maintain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. maintain: Rhymezone
  20. maintain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. maintain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. maintain: FreeDictionary.org
  23. maintain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. maintain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. maintain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maintain: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maintain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. maintain: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maintain: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maintain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See maintainability as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.

Similar:
sustain, keep up, keep, uphold, exert, defend, hold, observe, wield, asseverate, more...

Opposite:
neglect, ignore, abandon, forfeit, relinquish

Types:
maintainability, more...

Phrases:
to maintain, easy to maintain, to maintain or assert, maintain in a way as a lawn, to maintain something, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     gray,     teal,     olive, more...


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Similar:
sustain, keep up, keep, uphold, exert, defend, hold, observe, wield, asseverate, more...

Opposite:
neglect, ignore, abandon, forfeit, relinquish

Types:
maintainability, more...

Phrases:
to maintain, easy to maintain, to maintain or assert, maintain in a way as a lawn, to maintain something, maintain composure, maintain order, well maintain, try to maintain, maintain distance, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     gray,     teal,     olive, more...



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