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- noun Common misspelling of
maintenance .
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Examples
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I worked in maintainence control and the aircrews had to check in with me prior to going on their assigned mission, Capt.
Craig Mitchell Dix 1971
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She says when she called maintainence, she says they messed with the wires, but didn't fix it, now she's left her to boil water for a family of five.
WTVC NewsChannel 9: Chattanooga News, Weather, Radar, Sports, Lottery : News 2010
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A lot of public infrastructure has a heckuva lot of deferred maintainence.
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Decades after the big academic debate on resale price maintainence (RPM), five justices are convinced: The court struck down the 96-year-old rule that resale price maintenance agreements were an automatic, or per se, violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In its place, the court instructed judges considering such agreements for possible antitrust violations to apply a case-by-case approach, known as a “rule of reason,” to assess their impact on competition.
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To drive a circuit from NYC-LON requires atleast a DWDM gear on both ends costing a cool 200K list, with a maintainence for the gear at about 15% of cost price.
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Also the maintainence of free (or near free) education for Undergraduate and Graduate Courses, has become a political gimmick, rather than something that has any real value addition capability in Human Capital terms.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I bet even a few Econlog readers live by the slogan: Thousands for gas, insurance, and maintainence; not one penny for parking!
Paying for Parking, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Likewise the explicitly stated RIGHT to bear arms can be for more than ONLY the maintainence of a militia - meaning that the right includes purposes other than only the militia.
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• Both plants are light water reactors operated by the Tokyo Electric Power company (or Tepco):Fukushima Daiichi (No 1) plant- has six reactors, three of which were shut down for maintainence.
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Likewise the explicitly stated RIGHT to bear arms can be for more than ONLY the maintainence of a militia - meaning that the right includes purposes other than only the militia.
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