verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cheap to run/use/maintain etc
▪ Gas appliances are usually cheaper to run than electric ones.
▪ For the employer, a part-time workforce means a cheap labour supply.
keep up/maintain a pretence (=keep pretending that you are doing something or that something is true)
▪ She kept up the pretence that her husband had died in order to claim the insurance money.
keep up/maintain morale (=keep morale high)
▪ It was becoming difficult to keep up the morale of the troops.
keep/maintain a balance
▪ Try to keep a balance between your spending and your earnings.
▪ A firm must strive to maintain a balance between business and financial risk.
keep/maintain your composure (=stay calm)
▪ The widow broke down in tears, but her daughters maintained their composure.
maintain a level
▪ It's difficult to maintain the same level of physical fitness.
maintain a position (=keep the rank that you have)
▪ High-status groups do all they can to maintain their positions.
maintain a recordformal
▪ The directors are responsible for maintaining adequate accounting records.
maintain a speed (=keep the same speed)
▪ The aircraft is designed to maintain a steady speed.
maintain momentum (=make something continue at the same pace)
▪ The party was determined to maintain the momentum of reform.
maintain peace
▪ They’re trying to maintain peace.
maintain relations
▪ The Indian government had sought to maintain good relations with China.
maintain standards (=keep them at a good level)
▪ Television companies should maintain standards of taste and decency.
maintain the quality
▪ Staffing problems made it difficult to maintain the quality of the service.
maintain your fitness (=keep your body at a good level of fitness)
▪ She worked hard to maintain her fitness while pregnant.
maintain your lifestyle (=keep your lifestyle as it is)
▪ You cannot maintain this lifestyle on your income.
maintain/carry on/continue/uphold a tradition (=make a tradition continue in the same way or at the same standard as before)
▪ We maintain a tradition of cider making dating from Norman times.
maintain/develop ties
▪ The U.S. is committed to maintaining close ties with Europe.
maintain...facade
▪ She managed to maintain a facade of bravery.
maintain/preserve/defend the status quo (=not make any changes)
▪ Will the West use its influence to maintain the status quo and not disrupt the flow of oil?
maintain/sustain growth
▪ Governments that want to survive have to maintain growth.
protest/maintain your innocence (=say repeatedly that you are not guilty)
▪ The prisoners continued to protest their innocence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
▪ Small scale production is still maintained.
▪ Stockdale is in good health and still maintains an office at Stanford.
▪ Being capable of risking showing one's own personal vulnerability while still maintaining professional standards.
▪ They can still maintain being in the military, still maintain their medical benefits.
▪ The couple still maintain close links with local schools, where they spend hours researching, sketching and absorbing jokes.
▪ I had to get rid of that albatross called my ego, but still maintain self-assurance.
▪ With the violence showing no signs of ending, thousands of soldiers must still maintain a military presence.
▪ The prosecutor still maintained White abused the children.
■ NOUN
balance
▪ Research has suggested that for blood cells, this lipid asymmetry may help to maintain the delicate balance between haemostasis and thrombosis.
▪ In the years that followed, achievements by one side or the other alternated, maintaining a precarious balance of power.
▪ However, Black's influence over the dark squares should be sufficient to maintain the balance.
▪ Languages seem to maintain a balance in expressiveness and grammatical complexity over time.
▪ There was also an environmental objective - to maintain a proper balance between human needs and the natural environment.
▪ Workers in fishnet organizations must figure out how to maintain this kind of balance.
▪ Agency definitions of abuse and what behaviours constitute abuse must maintain the balance of responsibility between the abuser and abused.
▪ A well-run firm must strive to maintain an appropriate balance between business and financial risk.
contact
▪ Men maintained some contact with their place of origin and might remember it in their wills.
▪ By maintaining close contact with produce companies, Fahey secures the freshest ingredients for his menu.
▪ Home Office officials maintain contact with them by attending conferences and meetings, and periodically on a closer and more continuing basis.
▪ The report also faults the balloon crew for failing to maintain radio contact with the ground.
▪ It maintains the longest contact with the skin when it is most required.
▪ I am having difficulty in maintaining contact with Earth.
▪ Margaret maintained close contact with the branches, especially in the north, and inspired many campaigns.
▪ But you should give some thought to how you maintain contact.
control
▪ In the second place, it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor.
▪ In contrast, the military maintained strict control over the information that was available during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
▪ Within his government he maintained strict control over the formulation of policy, a control which tightened as the crisis wore on.
▪ Other legislators say the priority should be maintaining control of U.S. immigration and not rewarding lawbreakers.
▪ It is difficult to maintain control where a scattered enforcement staff possess high discretion.
▪ For Beyster, employee ownership is an effective way to maintain control.
▪ The knowledge workers in the insurance company were responsible for processing this mass of data to maintain operational control of the business.
▪ Using this approach you will maintain more control over the conversation and get what you want.
environment
▪ For individuals, the costs of maintaining a safe environment are, however, by no means all in the category of indirect taxation.
▪ Obviously knowledge as well as self-discipline is necessary to prevent accidents and maintain a safe environment.
▪ Structures of management and finance devised to maintain environments and institutions may not be the same as are needed to oversee renewal.
▪ The individual's level of stress is known to be important in relation to maintaining a safe environment.
▪ Such people need help in maintaining their environment in a condition which is safe for them until their mood improves.
▪ He argues that by maintaining the job environment at an acceptable level then feelings of dissatisfaction can be avoided.
▪ For many of them, their inability to maintain a safe environment is only temporary, but for others it may be permanent.
▪ Preventing pollution One dimension of maintaining a safe environment is the prevention of pollution.
interest
▪ The spread of prizemoney will help maintain interest until the end of the season.
▪ But he has also said that he maintains an interest in the race.
▪ In order for him to maintain interest he needed to work in short spurts.
▪ In the Army, he played football and maintained his interest in all things artistic, especially jazz.
▪ Whether this is generally true or not is not strictly relevant to attempts to heighten or maintain interest in a case.
▪ You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity and give up the struggle to maintain your own interests and identity.
▪ Subsequent work by Aitken was largely within the field of meteorology, although he maintained other interests.
level
▪ The War drained men from many schools which then experienced great difficulty in maintaining staffing levels.
▪ Or can they maintain their level of excellence?
▪ Whatever the method, it is vital to keep accurate, up-to-date figures so that the retailer can maintain the ideal stock level.
▪ The other anticonvulsants should be used in whatever dosage is required to maintain therapeutic blood levels. 4.
▪ Hence an increase of 7 percent would have been required to maintain the real level of spending.
▪ You must content yourself with maintaining your present level and role in the organization for the duration or leave!
▪ To help maintain an optimum level of excitement.
▪ His chances of accomplishing policy change will also be enhanced if he maintains high levels of support in public opinion polls.
momentum
▪ To maintain the upward momentum, Parke must keep his ambitions high, yet keep his feet on the ground.
▪ He is committed to maintaining that momentum.
▪ Johnson maintained the momentum with baskets.
▪ To be blunt about it, the challenge confronting Mr Heseltine is how to maintain his momentum.
▪ He ignored complaints from alarmed consumer groups in order to maintain popular momentum for a measure he regards as essential.
▪ Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms, increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
▪ Arizona State maintained a shred of momentum early in the second half.
need
▪ The arguments continue over the need and relevance of maintaining an established Church in a multi cultural society.
▪ Indeed, the need to maintain the facade of politesse is often paramount.
▪ I plan to consider these questions as they relate to the human need to create and maintain self-identity in a social context.
▪ The size of barrier needed is set against the need to maintain volumes.
▪ One reason for this is the need to maintain an up-to-date register of those liable to pay.
▪ He spoke of the importance of professional education and the need to maintain professional standards.
▪ The need to maintain simplicity in any pricing system, that does not distort but helps articulate the assessment process.
order
▪ Their primary purpose is the conservative one of helping to sustain and maintain the existing order of things.
▪ Richard finds himself being assigned by Sal for a murderous control mission to maintain order.
▪ On Oct. 2 the government had sent in troops to maintain order.
▪ Members of these groups, which are linked together in an organic whole, work cooperatively to maintain the social order.
▪ He was much more intent on maintaining public order.
▪ Hayes asserted that he had been deceived by the southern promises to maintain order.
▪ It arises from the need to maintain law and order.
▪ The army brought in thousands of extra troops, and put tanks and helicopters at West Bank checkpoints to help maintain order.
position
▪ The various devices used by the courts to maintain the present position will be discussed below.
▪ The controller can escape responsibility if he can maintain the position that the individual himself is in control.
▪ According to him, greedy business people often looked to the government for help in maintaining their position.
▪ To maintain a sound financial position.
▪ When I was a hundred yards from Orange Three, I accelerated gently to maintain the position.
▪ Illegal activities often helped high-status groups maintain their positions.
▪ From this point of view the professional-managerial class are likely to try to maintain their position by forming themselves into professions.
quality
▪ Counselling is concerned with maintaining the quality of life of older people for as long as possible.
▪ The facility will offer HIV-infected homeless youth access to care and services to help them maintain a higher quality of life.
▪ The threat of losing the licence provides an incentive to the companies to maintain a high quality performance.
▪ Key messages include the need to plan audits adequately, to record audit work performed and to maintain adequate quality assurance procedures.
▪ To maintain a high quality exploration portfolio focusing on core business areas and under-explored prospective basins.
▪ But variety made it difficult to maintain consistent quality.
▪ These checks are ongoing, ensuring that companies maintain the stringent quality requirements.
▪ First, they could become very efficient by cutting unnecessary costs, although they must maintain quality.
rate
▪ This aided the operation of the fixed exchange rate system and helped to maintain a low inflation rate in the international economy.
▪ In most patients, it is desirable to use dosages that maintain a pulse rate greater than 60.
▪ However, if two crewmen are slain, the remaining crewman will be unable to maintain the normal rate of fire.
▪ They maintained biological productivity rates similar to outside ecosystems.
▪ Fifty runs were assembled in the first 15 overs, but even maintaining that rate required a certain air of desperation.
▪ The two may interact with one another - for instance when countries try to control capital outflows in order to maintain a given exchange rate.
▪ Above this size he is unable to maintain this rate of involvement.
▪ Some blame arguably can be attached also to the Reserve Bank's policy of maintaining high real interest rates.
record
▪ We maintain an enviable record against schools five and 10 times our size.
▪ Embalmers maintain records such as embalming reports, and itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with the body.
▪ Obviously it is necessary to maintain the records during the period of intervention.
▪ Simple mechanical devices were placed in the test room to maintain an accurate record of output.
▪ Indeed, the use of electronic documentation systems should enhance a organisation's ability to maintain full and accurate records.
▪ Failure to maintain proper records would be a criminal offence.
▪ Organisational needs Organisations will need to collect information and maintain records for a range of internal management purposes.
relationship
▪ Since then, they had maintained their relationship - a kind of teasing familiarity - but he had never proposed marriage again.
▪ The subordinates acknowledged that some conflicts would inevitably arise, no matter how well the manager maintained the web of relationships.
▪ Colleagues of Gilbey have always maintained that his relationship with the princess is strictly platonic.
▪ But you also have to grow up and find a way of developing and maintaining good relationships.
▪ I will give some examples of signals that maintain relationships within a species from a familiar companion animal, the domestic cat.
▪ Therefore, the better you become at maintaining relationships the fewer conflicts you will be forced to deal with. 2.
▪ One main purpose of communicating is to establish and maintain human relationships.
▪ The challenge comes in building and maintaining these relationships to the benefit of all concerned.
standard
▪ But there are now several recognised cooking methods that not only maintain the standards of traditional cooking, but improve on them.
▪ The 6 million people of Hong Kong have an obvious stake in maintaining their high standard of living.
▪ A new way of consumption was enforced but it tended to sacrifice social economy so as to maintain artificial standards of living.
▪ First, maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important.
▪ Being capable of risking showing one's own personal vulnerability while still maintaining professional standards.
▪ They were to be prepared for their maternal duties and given material assistance to maintain a higher standard of motherhood.
▪ Moreover, they have maintained relatively high standards of education.
status
▪ Despite these disadvantages, many older people have been able to maintain their social status by remaining active, alert and healthy.
▪ These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban, and a total ban.
▪ Egocentrism acts to maintain the structural status quo.
▪ But this is a result of those at the top of the hierarchy maintaining their status amongst their subordinates.
▪ True reconciliation, however, means anything but maintaining the status quo.
▪ We want to maintain our sense of status.
▪ Between 1877 and 1900 the Constitution and statutes drafted by the Republicans were circumvented or utilized to maintain the racial status quo.
system
▪ The B vitamins are important too for maintaining a healthy nervous system and stress can accelerate their loss from your body.
▪ A country that maintains a strong banking system and a strong, stable currency reaps real rewards.
▪ You can ask yourself how it is possible to maintain a system like apartheid over 300 years without cooperation.
▪ The way to avoid this was to vote Tory and secure a majority government maintaining the existing system.
▪ Niacin helps maintain a healthy nervous system and skin.
▪ Competition was restricted by member firms by maintaining a minimum commission system.
▪ However, there will still be the ongoing task of maintaining the system that has been created.
▪ Among the looting and fighting a lot of the villagers had managed to maintain their traditional systems for support.
tradition
▪ Protestants and Catholics certainly see themselves as different peoples with different histories, and for the most part maintain different cultural traditions.
▪ At least one House Republican freshman maintains a hoary political tradition by staging town meetings with his constituents.
▪ If Britain is to maintain its tradition of excellent clinical research adequate support must be provided for the clinical costs of research.
▪ The Vale of White Horse Hunt maintains a centuries old tradition.
▪ What mattered were, first, to maintain the tradition of worship in the parish, and second, reconciliation.
▪ Clearly the News of the World strongly maintained the tradition of the crime broadsheets through most of the twentieth century.
▪ Drama has maintained its strong tradition, with a major performance each year.
▪ Unfortunately, the number of cheese-making farms has dwindled and there are now only four or five left to maintain the tradition.
■ VERB
continue
▪ You can be assured that these superior standards will continue to be maintained too.
▪ Instead, they continue to maintain their position by holding the world to economic and military ransom.
▪ Because that self-interest has continued, we have maintained our membership, even though we continue to run an imbalance on our trade.
▪ Core support services such as Analytical, Technical Information Services and a small engineering technology function will continue to be maintained.
▪ During the three months before the move the two bases will continue to be maintained fully staffed.
▪ We shall continue to maintain human and cultural contacts wherever this can be done without compromise of principle.
▪ Stuart continued to maintain that their was best, being representative of the middle course.
establish
▪ The right to education is meaningless unless schools and institutions of higher learning are established and maintained.
▪ But how is true community established and maintained?
▪ Ensure that an adequate system for taking backup files is established and maintained.
▪ The prosperous trans-Saharan trade alone had established and maintained their brilliant and precocious supremacy.
▪ In studying it, one has to explore the methods and techniques by which such restraints are established and maintained.
▪ Inability to establish and maintain meaningful interpersonal relationships 2.
▪ Within these objectives the association is empowered: To establish and maintain appropriate standards of competence for managers in the industry.
▪ To establish and maintain a library.
help
▪ It helped to maintain levels of production and to prevent price-cutting wars which led to further bankruptcies and so to further unemployment.
▪ Some things help us to maintain our brotherhood, and sisterhood, under the skin.
▪ They will therefore consider how stratification systems help to maintain order and stability in society.
▪ The facility will offer HIV-infected homeless youth access to care and services to help them maintain a higher quality of life.
▪ Pride of this nature helps to maintain good standards.
▪ The army brought in thousands of extra troops, and put tanks and helicopters at West Bank checkpoints to help maintain order.
▪ In other words, imported goods and services help maintain consumption levels in the marketable sector.
▪ To help maintain that kind of output, the company has about six training programs.
require
▪ Once admitted, the solicitor is required to maintain a practising certificate, for which a substantial annual fee is charged.
▪ This minimum balance that the firm is required to maintain is referred to as a compensating balance.
▪ Manufacturers would be required to maintain dossiers in a standard format on each product, a measure designed to facilitate safety checks.
▪ Some working relationships require more effort to maintain them than others.
▪ The sub-contractor should be required to maintain safe working conditions on the site and to operate within the current safety legislation.
▪ The arrangement requires Gingrich to maintain life insurance to cover the outstanding interest and principal.
▪ Hence an increase of 7 percent would have been required to maintain the real level of spending.
▪ The other anticonvulsants should be used in whatever dosage is required to maintain therapeutic blood levels. 4.
try
▪ We try to maintain a balance between education and erotica.
▪ Some plantation families tried desperately to maintain their traditional lifestyle by pretending they still had slaves.
▪ It was important to try to maintain a constant pressure in both the fuel and oxidizer tanks during the flight.
▪ He tried to maintain an outward in-difference by chatting casually with members of his group.
▪ From this point of view the professional-managerial class are likely to try to maintain their position by forming themselves into professions.
▪ Bedford had tried to maintain that inner confidence that had illumined his mind on the Fulton Street pier.
▪ So try to maintain normal meals at normal mealtimes, and normal sleeping patterns as far as possible.
▪ I try to maintain a regime that keeps wildlife happy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Air France has maintained a high level of service for many years.
▪ An attempt was being made to maintain the grounds, but weeds were starting to grow in the driveway.
▪ Cox said he and his wife, Chrissy, were "trying to just maintain."
▪ Dieters should try to reach and maintain a reasonable weight.
▪ His first job was installing and maintaining computers.
▪ His role is to maintain the society's fleet of vans, ready to respond in any emergency.
▪ It's hard to do this job and still maintain a marriage.
▪ It is best if divorced parents can maintain friendly relations for the sake of the children.
▪ King lives in Chicago but maintains an apartment in New York.
▪ My mother always maintains that I learned to talk at six months.
▪ Our main wish is to help maintain world peace.
▪ Residents work in the downstairs shop, and also help to maintain the building.
▪ The authors of "Superdiet' maintain you can lose pounds without eating less.
▪ They're finding it difficult to maintain such high interest rates.
▪ Volkswagen has maintained close business ties with them for over 20 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ball maintains the prerequisite glum visage, but he's clearly happy standing behind his bank of electronic equipment.
▪ Barges of Lee's fleet were always well maintained and were never over-loaded.
▪ It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance, and is not something that can be taken for granted.
▪ Once learned, values must be maintained.
▪ Simple mechanical devices were placed in the test room to maintain an accurate record of output.
▪ This is cheaper than pure goose down but like all down bags maintains superb loft capacity.
▪ Throughout this history the two sides have maintained two distinct takes on hacking.
▪ We want to maintain our sense of status.