Meaning of undermaintain | Babel Free

Definitions

To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair.

transitive

Examples

“For some years locomotives and coaches have been overworked and undermaintained to a degree without precedent in British railway history, and the leeway in maintenance now to be made up is very great.”

“The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.”

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