Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being maintained, kept up, supported, or upheld; sustainable; defensible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be maintained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
maintained
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being maintained
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All the web frameworks out there are big and complex beasts designed for big, complex, long-term maintainable projects.
Planet Python 2010
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They also have redundant components and are concurrently maintainable, that is, they provide redundancy even during maintenance, usually with an N + 2 setup.
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Very insightful, especially for people newer to the idea of maintainable javascript.
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What I mean by this is to retrain our industries and designers to emphasize aspects of products that focus on making products more durable and maintainable.
Dennis Santiago: Economic Recovery Means Learning to Export Unemployment Dennis Santiago 2011
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"We've laid out a good fiscal track for Canada that is maintainable," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters this week.
Contempt Charge Topples Canada's Leader Chip Cummins 2011
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They themselves weren't exhausted, but felt that art was - that it was, in fact, maintainable only by getting out of the way.
Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011
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They themselves weren't exhausted, but felt that art was - that it was, in fact, maintainable only by getting out of the way.
Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011
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What I mean by this is to retrain our industries and designers to emphasize aspects of products that focus on making products more durable and maintainable.
Dennis Santiago: Economic Recovery Means Learning to Export Unemployment Dennis Santiago 2011
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You may disagree that people have a right to liberty, but there is no inconsistency in a libertarian position that notes the necessity of defending liberty and the possibility that the maximal maintainable level of liberty will be less than 100%, precisely because some infringement may be necessary in order to deploy the resources needed to head off far worse infringement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010
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"We've laid out a good fiscal track for Canada that is maintainable," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters this week.
Canada's Government Faces Confidence Vote Chip Cummins 2011
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