noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
routine maintenance
▪ The system will be shut down overnight for routine maintenance.
service/maintenance engineer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
essential
▪ First, the Center wants no more new construction or even major repairs; money should be spent on essential maintenance only.
▪ Thus the mechanisms of social control discussed earlier in the chapter, are seen as essential to the maintenance of social order.
▪ The retail business, which is essential for the maintenance of adequate market liquidity, declined after the 1987 stock market crash.
▪ They are essential for the maintenance of the market's liquidity.
▪ It will be opened to the public in the next few years, once essential maintenance is completed.
▪ Such skills are essential to the maintenance of an open society.
low
▪ Conoco also preferred the Descote valve because of its low maintenance requirements and because its design minimises the possibility of leakage.
▪ Weak authentication with low maintenance overhead and without patent or export restrictions.
▪ Both these species are relatively low in maintenance, needing a clip once, or at the most, twice a year.
▪ She chose honeysuckle for its fragrance, low maintenance and lasting summer blooms.
▪ Secondly, electronic ignition means low maintenance and easy starting.
▪ If the house or flat has a garden, it should be low-maintenance.
▪ It was stipulated that the design must be robust, of simple construction and involve only low maintenance costs.
proper
▪ I am sure that providing the proper maintenance is undertaken, many of them are unnecessary.
▪ She loved their pale shining; clean brass was a pleasure, its proper maintenance a pleasure to herself as well as to Lizzie.
▪ The stability of one affects the stability of all, and therefore the proper maintenance and repair of one affects the others.
▪ Teeth are especially worthy of admiration, being capable, with proper maintenance, of cracking nuts for something like forty years.
▪ There is the proper maintenance of records and files.
regular
▪ It also needs regular maintenance and tuning.
▪ If you camouflage your filter remember to allow easy access for regular maintenance.
▪ The tank is slightly overcrowded but regular maintenance of the aquarium does alleviate this situation.
▪ Harmonious family life requires regular maintenance, and adjustments of understanding as one phase of development gives way to another.
▪ Cleaning a floppy disk drive should be part of a regular maintenance procedure.
▪ Service schedule All marriages need their regular running maintenance.
▪ Timber cladding also requires the householder to perform regular maintenance, as described above.
▪ It exhorts the motorist to keep his car in good shape by regular maintenance and such.
responsible
▪ His section was responsible for the maintenance of radio equipment fitted to the Washingtons.
▪ The city is responsible for major building maintenance and exterior security, and the museum is responsible for interior maintenance and security.
▪ The market administration is responsible for the maintenance of the building or site, rubbish collection, security and rents.
▪ The understanding was that the Borough Council provided and installed this seat and the Parish Council was then responsible for its maintenance.
▪ Even emotional stress can be a trigger to finely-tuned glands responsible for the maintenance of hormone levels.
routine
▪ His tip was for handrails to be provided around the Laundry Building, to prevent people falling during routine maintenance access.
▪ Mr Stanley had been carrying out routine maintenance work.
▪ Checklists Checklists are used in the pre-start mode, for routine maintenance and for fault-finding.
▪ Much of the routine preventive maintenance is done by the operators who use the machines.
▪ They were noticed during routine maintenance checks.
▪ In the routine maintenance revenue account the resurfacing of Beech Hill and the construction of a footpath were being treated as priorities.
■ NOUN
car
▪ These days women try all sorts of classes, from plumbing and electrical repairs to car maintenance.
▪ But then, other schools, I am informed, offer their young gentlemen courses in car maintenance.
▪ He will tour the school's car maintenance department where pupils learn basic mechanics.
▪ But when I found John he knew nothing about car maintenance.
▪ A practical example was illustrated at Castlebrae High School, where the prince watched a car maintenance class.
contract
▪ Taking out a separate maintenance contract or insurance is only really worth it if you might need back-up urgently.
▪ After five years, and aged about 30, he was appointed programme manager for all foreign engine maintenance contracts.
▪ It also provides a record of the order, despatch and maintenance contract dates of the issued product.
▪ However, once the issue has been despatched, only the contact name and maintenance contract dates can be updated.
▪ They have opened offices in Bristol and Maidstone to service maintenance contracts.
▪ This will usually be done by the landlord entering into a long-term maintenance contract with a specialist.
▪ A maintenance contract covering the calendar year 1991 was not issued under invoice until April 1991.
costs
▪ In addition, there is the cost of accidents and fires resulting from smoking as well as cleaning and maintenance costs.
▪ The Navy could save money, officials said, because upkeep and maintenance costs for the McKee would be eliminated.
▪ So the maintenance costs are incurred on the vehicle itself, and not the track.
▪ All operation and maintenance costs are those costs that exceed 0 and M for the base case of oil boilers.
▪ However, with experience of rather higher levels of use an asphalt surface has now been added to reduce annual maintenance costs.
▪ The company continues to pay various maintenance costs as well.
▪ Can you afford the running costs and maintenance costs?
▪ And maintenance costs for existing roads have increased as more streets decay thanks to lack of upkeep.
crew
▪ And travelling maintenance crews may not turn up from one year to the next because of the immense areas they have to cover.
▪ He saw the maintenance crew posed disconsolately on a hill.
▪ Then one day all of us on the maintenance crew were watching a blue movie.
engineer
▪ In the far more complex factory environment the skilled maintenance engineer is likely to have a role for some considerable time yet.
▪ Sometimes the maintenance engineer is dealing with a type of failure he has never had before.
▪ Consider for example the maintenance engineer operating as a diagnostician.
▪ Pilots and other flight crew immediately come to mind; so too do maintenance engineers and air traffic controllers.
▪ An experienced maintenance engineer approaches a problem as follows: 1.
health
▪ Under the regional managed care systems, most Medicaid patients would be served by health maintenance organizations.
▪ The company negotiates lower drug costs with pharmacies for health maintenance organizations, whose stock were generally lower today.
▪ Hospital management and health maintenance organization companies gained after Merrill Lynch&038;.
▪ Merging parts of a health maintenance organization like Kaiser with a non-HMO at one time may have been unthinkable.
▪ Hospitals, health maintenance organizations, insurance companies and corporate investors are remaking the system, for better or worse.
▪ Two dozen major California health maintenance organizations will receive a report card today on the quality of their preventive services.
▪ The second priority is legislation to protect patients in health maintenance organizations, sponsored by Sens.
income
▪ That, of course, is bound up with the issue of income maintenance.
▪ The findings will be relevant to the evaluation and development of housing, employment and income maintenance policies for young people.
▪ The second study examines income maintenance for families, where there are significant differences in policy in the two countries.
▪ The results are being applied to policy issues of current interest, including the reform of taxation and of income maintenance.
man
▪ Adjusting to her style of leadership must have been a learning process for not only the maintenance man.
▪ A secretary, security guard, or maintenance man should not be ignored.
▪ His father also worked there as a maintenance man, retiring after 51 years service.
▪ The maintenance man, Pedro Mejia, did not mention the swimmers to anyone on the hotel staff.
▪ My men are tracing the maintenance man's family at the moment.
▪ Two Commercial Union building maintenance men and one security guard were injured in the explosion.
▪ Asking the rest of the maintenance men about Kev and his life inevitably, sooner or later, led to Polly.
organization
▪ Hospital management and health maintenance organization companies gained after Merrill Lynch&038;.
▪ Merging parts of a health maintenance organization like Kaiser with a non-HMO at one time may have been unthinkable.
organizations
▪ Under the regional managed care systems, most Medicaid patients would be served by health maintenance organizations.
▪ The company negotiates lower drug costs with pharmacies for health maintenance organizations, whose stock were generally lower today.
▪ Most insurers and health-maintenance organizations compile formularies with committees of doctors and druggists.
▪ Hospitals, health maintenance organizations, insurance companies and corporate investors are remaking the system, for better or worse.
▪ Two dozen major California health maintenance organizations will receive a report card today on the quality of their preventive services.
▪ The second priority is legislation to protect patients in health maintenance organizations, sponsored by Sens.
payment
▪ Receiving maintenance payments would perpetuate this link and also gives him unwelcome paternity rights.
▪ No money problems Neither you nor your husband or wife may claim for any lump sum or maintenance payment.
▪ My bank also writes about maintenance payments.
▪ So they cut his maintenance payments from four pounds a week to the minimum five pence a year.
▪ I was left with four small boys to bring up and, from the start, maintenance payments were irregular.
▪ Their proposals established the amount of child maintenance and a Child Support Agency to assess, collect and enforce maintenance payments.
▪ Took his ex-wife to court for suspending his maintenance payments.
▪ An errant neurotic, failing to keep up the maintenance payments to support his own creation.
price
▪ There is retail price maintenance by the manufacturer, both maximum price and minimum price.
▪ Partly this reflects the lack of enthusiasm among manufacturers toward any erosion of retail price maintenance.
▪ Each agreement also contained a resale price maintenance clause.
▪ Resale price maintenance: this is a system under which manufacturers contractually control the minimum level of prices charged by retailers.
▪ There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance.
▪ After the group pulled out, the judge made an order ending the exemption of medicines from price maintenance.
problem
▪ And finally, standardisation makes it easier to train the operating personnel and reduces maintenance problems.
▪ He said that often important maintenance problems are put off until they create urgent problems.
▪ Routine monitoring and inspection for maintenance problems and vandalism.
▪ Every now and then nature conspires to rivet homeowners' attention on a particular maintenance problem.
▪ What is needed to solve today's maintenance problems?
▪ This has been particularly useful in the nuclear industry where highly corrosive toxic and radioactive substances cause severe maintenance problems.
▪ Delicate arrangements are required to maintain the controlled gas leak and these are prone to wear and maintenance problems.
▪ Occasionally the builder may raise minor maintenance problems to justify his failure to pay for work executed or to release retention.
programme
▪ The plants are then supplied with an incorporated maintenance programme.
▪ There will be a rolling maintenance programme of the external walls and roof to ensure they continue to be wind and watertight.
▪ Some will be reintroduced for the maintenance programme.
▪ The manager should discuss the proposals for the coming year's maintenance programme before the allocation of annual leave to nurses.
▪ Serve with Shape Single or ice cream if desired by those on maintenance programme only.
▪ A complete planned maintenance programme is necessary to ensure that pests are controlled and hygiene standards are maintained.
staff
▪ Similarly, maintenance staff may need to be sent quickly to carry out repairs at the request of a particular guest.
▪ In both cases this means training for most of the staff, from porters and maintenance staff to librarians.
▪ The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation.
work
▪ Mr Stanley had been carrying out routine maintenance work.
▪ For instance, the chimney was brought down in 1922 to supply bricks for general maintenance work on the canal.
▪ Dunn, which is based in Burton-on-Trent, specialises in maintenance work in the electricity industry.
▪ Rex is now negotiating to undertake maintenance work on peace time service graves in the the county.
▪ Usually maintenance work is carried out during the course of repairs following a breakdown.
▪ National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult.
▪ Next year two-thirds of all motorway maintenance work will be carried out in this way.
▪ Please would you investigate and arrange for the necessary maintenance work to be put in hand.
worker
▪ On March 6, 8,500 maintenance workers also went on strike, supported by the pilots.
▪ District maintenance workers yanked out the seats and replaced them with portable chairs.
▪ A few years ago, maintenance workers found pieces of a stone bowl on the site.
▪ The maintenance workers contacted lifeguards, who in turn notified various public and private agencies that a rescue might be necessary.
■ VERB
carry
▪ Mr Stanley had been carrying out routine maintenance work.
▪ The more valves you fit in a system, the easier it will be to carry out maintenance or replacement.
▪ The workshops at Kingsmere carry out all maintenance work on the railway as well as building its rolling stock.
include
▪ Examples would include the provision and maintenance of fences, roads, drains, sewers and private sewage disposal works.
▪ And when it reaches you, it's backed by in-depth network hardware support - which includes on-site maintenance.
▪ This will include the maintenance of a constructive working relationship with the organisation's personnel department.
▪ The deal includes a four-year maintenance provision.
▪ The grants include scholarships and maintenance awards for students is well as rent rebates and allowances.
▪ The training will also include maintenance.
need
▪ It also needs regular maintenance and tuning.
▪ When it needed maintenance it was fixed quickly and without extensive coordination and paperwork.
▪ It does not need a gearbox, and it needs little maintenance.
▪ Both hormones are needed for the maintenance of pregnancy. 348.
▪ And they need very little maintenance and no spare parts.
▪ A smaller place needs less staffing and maintenance.
▪ Service schedule All marriages need their regular running maintenance.
▪ More recent machines are claimed to need less maintenance.
pay
▪ For example, a substantial proportion of the road tax levied on vehicle owners goes towards paying for road maintenance and improvements.
▪ The company continues to pay various maintenance costs as well.
▪ That is a benefit to him which is good consideration for his promise to pay maintenance.
▪ Will my ex-husband still pay maintenance for me and the children?
▪ Under the terms of their lease, they have to pay maintenance charges and annual ground rent to a landlord.
provide
▪ These awards cover the payment of tuition fees only and do not provide a maintenance grant.
▪ This enables housing associations to use their expertise in design as well as providing maintenance for the building.
▪ The future will see growth in new service industries providing home repairs and maintenance, home cleaning services, etc.
▪ At the same time, the hotel staff could also provide services on behalf of the maintenance company.
▪ This part of the ingested food is used to provide the maintenance requirement.
require
▪ These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good, safe working order at sea.
▪ They assemble themselves, repair themselves, and require no maintenance.
▪ They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis.
▪ In addition, all armor is fickle and requires constant maintenance.
▪ Normally, cowls require considerable maintenance and possible replacement every ten years - a costly consequence of owning an oast.
▪ They were found to require continual maintenance as the support environment for specific products changed over time.
▪ As John remarks, a healthy, biologically balanced environment should require minimal maintenance and effort.
▪ Harmonious family life requires regular maintenance, and adjustments of understanding as one phase of development gives way to another.
spend
▪ First, the Center wants no more new construction or even major repairs; money should be spent on essential maintenance only.
▪ The fortune doubtless spent on dermatological maintenance can scarcely be imagined.
▪ The decay of Britain's roads has been reflected in a sharp increase in central government's spending on road maintenance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A car is quite a big expense, especially when you consider maintenance.
▪ Because there had been no maintenance, the college buildings were in a poor state.
▪ I have no job and receive no maintenance from my children's father.
▪ I knew nothing about car maintenance when I first bought my car.
▪ Most gas appliances require routine maintenance once a year to ensure safety.
▪ Our primary concern is the maintenance of discipline in the school.
▪ the maintenance of public roads
▪ The city is paying $30,000 in annual maintenance costs.
▪ The court will now force him to meet maintenance payments.
▪ The fault was discovered during routine maintenance work.
▪ The Highways Department is responsible for the construction and maintenance of bridges and roads.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aeration used intelligently is a boon to the maintenance of the health and vitality of the fishes.
▪ Analysts assist in developing procedural guidelines and policies governing the development, formulation, and maintenance of the budget.
▪ Sales of large-scale data storage devices also increased strongly, while earnings from computer maintenance services hardly changed.
▪ The training will also include maintenance.
▪ There was one major flaw in this inspired scheme, no Provision was made for maintenance or replacement.
▪ There will be a rolling maintenance programme of the external walls and roof to ensure they continue to be wind and watertight.
▪ These are equally crucial conditions for the maintenance of democratic government.