how to pronounce maintenance
/ˈmɛɪntənəns/
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maintenance is pronounced in three syllables
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An example use of maintenance in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… with Faulds legal maintenance the spirit …”
meaning of maintenance
Maintenance is the act of keeping something in good working order.
maintenance frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR
the word maintenance occurs in english on average 14.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics maintenance can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that maintenance can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) communication, information, and media;
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