maintained
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
maintain/meɪnˈteɪn/
▶verb
- 1 cause or enable (a condition or situation) to continue.
■ keep at the same level or rate.
- 2 keep (a building, machine, etc.) in good condition by checking or repairing it regularly.
- 3 provide with necessities for life or existence.
■ archaic give one's support to; uphold.
- 4 assert something to be the case.
– derivatives
maintainability noun,
maintainable adjective,
maintainer noun.
maintainability noun,
maintainable adjective,
maintainer noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. maintenir, from L. manu tenere ‘hold in the hand’.
'maintained' also found in these Oxford entries:
beaux arts
- centre
- depot
- GM
- GMS
- grant-maintained
- Gulag
- gyrocompass
- HeLa cells
- holding pattern
- kempt
- maintained school
- maintenance
- manicure
- mother ship
- National Guard
- Nestorianism
- non-rigid
- Pax Romana
- pressure hull
- pressurize
- rail
- regulation
- siphon
- steady-state theory
- support price
- sustained yield
- tenable
- thesis
- torch
- trim
- untenable
- wait
- watchfire
- well found
- wet dock

