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Maintainer

Maintainer \Main*tain"er\, n. One who maintains.

Wiktionary
maintainer

n. 1 Someone who keeps or upholds something. 2 A person who does maintenance work. 3 (context dentistry English) A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

WordNet
maintainer

n. someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy" [syn: upholder, sustainer]

Usage examples of "maintainer".

Maintainer who brought us blankets whether there had been any unrest on Bottommost concerning the messenger of the Boundless.

What made him think that he, one man, could do anything to hurt the Planet-Shapers, Resurrectors of billions of dead, Feeders and Maintainers of those summoned back to life?

The trail maintainers in Maine have a certain hale devotion to seeking out the rockiest climbs and most forbidding slopes, and of these Maine has a breathtaking plenitude.

Glamdrul Feynt was on his way to keep a very important, and secret, appointment with Deputy Enforcer Bormas Tyle, and with Shavian Bossit, Lord Maintainer of the Household.

Mahometan, a Jew, and all the maintainers of all the different sects in the world.

The Seeds found him marked short, as Beedie had feared, and told him so in front of half the Bridgers and a full dozen Maintainers with their ears flapping.

In times of danger, a Maintainer is a Bridgers spare eyes, a Bridgets spare nose.

I had known that the inside of the Maintainer was made up of vastly tough, vastly hard giant molecules, but I hadn't realized they were quite that big.

Even this Place is, after its fashion, a giant brain: its floor is the brainpan, the boundary of the Void is the cortex of gray matter--yes, even the Major and Minor Maintainers are analogues of the pineal and pituitary glands, which in some form sustain all nervous systems.

From a window of his suite high in the library wing, Propagator of the Faith Tharius Don stared through a glass both newer and more powerful than the one used by the Maintainer.

Wherefore, if it shall appear to any man that I have offered in this work any thought that is either too novel or discordant with the truth, I ask him not to denounce me at once as one who boldly seizes upon new ideas, or as a maintainer of falsehood.