maintainer

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English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (to maintain); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er.

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Noun

maintainer (plural maintainers)

  1. Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
    He become the maintainer of the software project.
  2. A person who does maintenance work.
    • 2022 January 26, Philip Haigh, “The 'holes in the Swiss cheese' that led to train derailment”, in RAIL, number 949, page 46:
      RAIB looked at why the washers were missing. This took it into the relationship between the wagon's owner and maintainers.
  3. (dentistry) A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

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