Undermaintain

Quick meaning: Undermaintain is a verb meaning (transitive) To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair.

Meaning

(transitive) To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair.

Example Sentences

For some years locomotives and coaches have been overworked and undermaintained to a degree without precedent in British railway history, and the leeway in maintenance now to be made up is very great.

The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.

Word Forms

• undermaintains
• undermaintaining
• undermaintained

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underkeep, underfinance, underfeed, undernourish, underfunction, underprovide.

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