Mismaintain
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Mismaintain is a verb meaning To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.
Meaning
To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.
Example Sentences
They wrote: Rancho Seco was “mismanaged, mismaintained, and misoperated” since its beginning.
A bus can be mismaintained causing it to spill gallons of expensive fuel rounding the first corner of the day.
It is applicable if a product is found defective and unreasonably dangerous regardless of the care in design, manufacturing, or preparation of instructions, given that the user had not mismaintained, misused, or abused the product.
Word Forms
- mismaintains
- mismaintaining
- mismaintained
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mispreserve, miskeep, mismend, mismanage, misattend, undermanage.
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