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preventative maintenance

preventative maintenance noun: maintenance done to keep something in working order rather than to repair damage that has already happened.

Noun

preventative maintenance (uncountable)

  1. Maintenance done to keep something in working order rather than to repair damage that has already happened.

Questions about preventative maintenance

What does preventative maintenance mean?
Preventative maintenance means maintenance done to keep something in working order rather than to repair damage that has already happened.
What part of speech is preventative maintenance?
Preventative maintenance is a noun.

Words near preventative maintenance in the dictionary

  1. preventable
  2. preventableness
  3. preventables
  4. preventably
  5. preventative
  6. preventative maintenance
  7. preventative medicine
  8. preventative medicines
  9. preventatively
  10. preventatives
  11. prevented

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