Definitions for maintaining
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1. Maintaining

   of Maintain

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1. Maintaining

   Maintaining was a comic strip by cartoonist Nate Creekmore. Nate is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning. Nate's strip first appeared in the newspaper at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Maintaining was later picked up for syndication through Universal Press Syndicate. It was launched on May 7, 2007 and canceled in August 2009 for poor sales. The last daily strip was August 1, 2009 and the last Sunday strip was August 30, 2009.

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1. maintainingverb

   Verb form of the word maintain.

   Maintaining peace is easy as the commitment is there for all to comply and all are grateful.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 5, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'maintaining' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4273

How to pronounce maintaining?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say maintaining in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of maintaining in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of maintaining in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of maintaining in a Sentence

1. Hiroshige Seko:

   Maintaining energy security is something we can share with other ministers and is an important policy issue to be discussed at the G20 energy ministerial meeting, the Middle East is a key area for global energy security. We want to talk with other ministers about our concerns about global security and threats.

2. Jeremy Douglas:

   Organized crime groups have been able to continue the expansion of the regional synthetic drug trade -- in particular in the upper Lower Mekong and Shan state of Myanmar -- by maintaining a steady supply of chemicals into production areas despite border restrictions that have impacted legitimate cross-border trade.

3. George Kyritsis:

   It is possible... We are interested in two things. Sticking to the deal, and maintaining the rights (of migrants and refugees) ..It is a delicate and complicated process, we don't want to make mistakes.

4. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve:

   Maintaining order is harder than ever.

5. Mark Zaid:

   If the system is fair and equitable, then they should all have difficulty maintaining or obtaining a security clearance in the future.

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