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Meaning of mismaintain | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.

Examples

“A bus can be mismaintained causing it to spill gallons of expensive fuel rounding the first corner of the day.”
“It is applicable if a product is found defective and unreasonably dangerous regardless of the care in design, manufacturing, or preparation of instructions, given that the user had not mismaintained, misused, or abused the product.”
“They wrote: Rancho Seco was “mismanaged, mismaintained, and misoperated” since its beginning.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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