how to pronounce maintenance

/ˈmɛɪn.tən.əns/

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maintenance is pronounced in three syllables

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mɛɪntənəns

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An example use of maintenance in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… long as we keep maintenance a machine …”

meaning of maintenance

Maintenance is the act of keeping something in good working order.

maintenance frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word maintenance occurs in english on average 40 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 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;

words with pronunciation similar to maintenance

daintinesscountenance

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