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mismaintain

verb

Etymology

From mis- + maintain.

  1. derived from manū
  2. derived from manuteneo
  3. derived from maintenir
  4. inherited from mayntenen
  5. prefixed as mismaintain — “mis + maintain”

Definitions

  1. To maintain improperly

    To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.

    • A bus can be mismaintained causing it to spill gallons of expensive fuel rounding the first corner of the day.
    • It is applicable if a product is found defective and unreasonably dangerous regardless of the care in design, manufacturing, or preparation of instructions, given that the user had not mismaintained, misused, or abused the product.
    • They wrote: Rancho Seco was “mismanaged, mismaintained, and misoperated” since its beginning.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA