maintainer
English
editEtymology
editFrom Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
editmaintainer (plural maintainers)
- Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
- He become the maintainer of the software project.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
- Blessed are the maynteyners of peace: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.
- A person who does maintenance work.
- 2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN[2]:
- “To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”
- 2022 January 26, Philip Haigh, “The 'holes in the Swiss cheese' that led to train derailment”, in RAIL, number 949, page 46:
- RAIB looked at why the washers were missing. This took it into the relationship between the wagon's owner and maintainers.
- 2025 January 30, Helen Regan, Taylor Romine, Dalia Faheid, et. al., “January 30, 2025 - DC plane collision news”, in CNN[3]:
- Muehlendorf told CNN that O’Hara was a crew chief by trade, explaining that his “military occupational specialty was a 15T and he was originally trained to be a maintainer of Black Hawk helicopters.”
- (dentistry) A device used to keep teeth in a given position.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editsomeone who keeps or upholds something
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a person who does maintenance work
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See also
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ten-
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪnə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/eɪnə(ɹ)/3 syllables
- English lemmas
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