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maintainers

maintainers is the plural of maintainer.

Meaning of maintainer

Noun

maintainer (plural maintainers)

  1. Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
    • He become the maintainer of the software project.
  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
  3. A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

Questions about maintainers

What is maintainers the plural of?
Maintainers is the plural of maintainer.

Words near maintainers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maintainers (page history and authors); maintainer (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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