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nonmaintenance

nonmaintenance noun: failure to maintain something.

Noun

nonmaintenance (uncountable)

  1. Failure to maintain something.
    • The Kosi canal system has become defunct due to siltation and nonmaintenance.1998, Kedar Nath Prasad, Dimensions of Development: Analysis of an Underdeveloped State, page 242

Origin of nonmaintenance

From non- + maintenance.

Questions about nonmaintenance

What does nonmaintenance mean?
Nonmaintenance means failure to maintain something.
What part of speech is nonmaintenance?
Nonmaintenance is a noun.

Words near nonmaintenance in the dictionary

  1. nonmain
  2. nonmainframe
  3. nonmainstream
  4. nonmainstreamed
  5. nonmaintainable
  6. nonmaintenance
  7. nonmaize
  8. nonmajor
  9. nonmajoritarian
  10. nonmajorities
  11. nonmajority

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