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maintenance-free

maintenance-free adjective: not requiring any maintenance.

Adjective

maintenance-free (not comparable)

  1. Not requiring any maintenance.
    • A maintenance-free car battery.
    • Presumably, God could have created a maintenance-free world but decided that it would be better for us to take responsibility for the world we live in.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 15

Origin of maintenance-free

From maintenance + -free.

Questions about maintenance-free

What does maintenance-free mean?
Maintenance-free means not requiring any maintenance.
What part of speech is maintenance-free?
Maintenance-free is an adjective.

Words near maintenance-free in the dictionary

  1. maintenance hole
  2. maintenance holes
  3. maintenance medicine
  4. maintenance window
  5. maintenance windows
  6. maintenance-free
  7. maintenances
  8. maintenaunce
  9. maintenaunces
  10. maintenence
  11. Maintenon

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