How to pronounce maintenance

Say it like this: /ˈmeɪntənəns/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.

American/ˈmeɪntənəns/

What does maintenance mean?

nounActions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.

A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.

Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.

verbTo perform maintenance on a machine or system.

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main mainly maintain maintained major majority make maker

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