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maintainer

/meɪnˈteɪnə/

maintainer noun: someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

Noun

maintainer (plural maintainers)

  1. Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
    • He become the maintainer of the software project.
    • Blessed are the maynteyners of peace: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew
  2. 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.2016 May 26, Steve Almasy and Chris Boyette, “Lost hiker’s message: Please call husband when my body is found”, in CNN
    • “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.”2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN
  3. A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

maintainer meaning in Sanskrit

maintainer in Sanskrit

maintainer, supporter
धातृ dhātṛ́
a maintainer, observer
पालक pālaka

Examples of maintainer in a sentence

  • This took it into the relationship between the wagon's owner and maintainers.2022 January 26, Philip Haigh, “The 'holes in the Swiss cheese' that led to train derailment”, in RAIL, number 949, page 46:
  • 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.”2025 January 30, Helen Regan, Taylor Romine, Dalia Faheid, et. al., “January 30, 2025 - DC plane collision news”, in CNN:

Forms of maintainer

pluralmaintainers

Origin of maintainer

From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.

Words formed from maintainer

Words that rhyme with maintainer

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Questions about maintainer

What does maintainer mean?
Maintainer means someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
What is maintainer in Sanskrit?
Maintainer in Sanskrit is धातृ (dhātṛ́), पालक (pālaka). See Maintainer meaning in Sanskrit.
How do you use maintainer in a sentence?
This took it into the relationship between the wagon's owner and maintainers.
What part of speech is maintainer?
Maintainer is a noun.
How do you pronounce maintainer?
Maintainer is pronounced /meɪnˈteɪnə/ (UK).
What is the plural of maintainer?
The plural of maintainer is maintainers.

Words near maintainer in the dictionary

  1. maintained
  2. maintained appearances
  3. maintained markup
  4. maintained markups
  5. maintainence
  6. maintainer
  7. maintainers
  8. maintainership
  9. maintainest
  10. maintaineth
  11. maintaining

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: maintainer (page history and authors); धातृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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