Definition of Maintains

1. Verb. (third-person singular of ''maintain'') ¹

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Definition of Maintains

1. maintain [v] - See also: maintain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maintains

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mainstreets
maintain
maintainability
maintainable
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maintainence
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maintaineth
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maintopmast

Literary usage of Maintains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... uniformly preserved in an age of religious conten- maintains the tion. II is strong sense, unenlightened, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"He maintains that commerce with the East would justify the cost and that high speed systems of telegraphy would give it a great advantage over sub-marine ..."

3. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"... FLIGHT OF THE INDIANS SACKING OF SIR JOHN'S CAMP—COLONEL GANSEVOORT Maintains HIS POST—COLONEL WILLETT SENT IN QUEST OF AID ARRIVES AT SCHUYLER'S CAMP. ..."

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