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Maintainer
//meɪnˈteɪnə// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
"He become the maintainer of the software project."
- 2 someone who upholds or maintains wordnet
- 3 A person who does maintenance work.
"“In somm trouble. Got off trail to go to br. Now lost. Can u call AMC to c if a trail maintainer can help me. Somewhere north of woods road. Xox,” she wrote."
- 4 A device used to keep teeth in a given position.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.
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