Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being maintained, kept up, supported, or upheld; sustainable; defensible.
Wiktionary
- adj. Able to be maintained
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That may be maintained.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of being maintained
Etymologies
- maintain + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All the web frameworks out there are big and complex beasts designed for big, complex, long-term maintainable projects.”
“They also have redundant components and are concurrently maintainable, that is, they provide redundancy even during maintenance, usually with an N + 2 setup.”
“Very insightful, especially for people newer to the idea of maintainable javascript.”
“They themselves weren't exhausted, but felt that art was - that it was, in fact, maintainable only by getting out of the way.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA
“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
“We've laid out a good fiscal track for Canada that is maintainable," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters this week.”
The Wall Street Journal: Canada's Government Faces Confidence Vote
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Dennis Santiago: Economic Recovery Means Learning to Export Unemployment
“But most importantly, credit unions work for these small businesses and community organizations offering manageable business loans and fair and maintainable mortgage rates.”
“Officers are working well beyond maintainable limits and they cannot sustain this pressure much longer," Hanson said.”
The Guardian: Police chief hits out at cuts that put his force on 'cliff edge'
“In a letter to Chief Constable Peter Fahy, chairman elect Ian Hanson said officers were "working well beyond maintainable limits", and response teams were "stretched well beyond capacity".”
The Guardian: Police chief hits out at cuts that put his force on 'cliff edge'
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