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. maintaining

   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?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Timothy Dolan:

   Cardinal McCarrick was advised of the charge, and, while maintaining his innocence, fully cooperated in the investigation. The Holy See was alerted as well, and encouraged us to continue the process.

2. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   While we hurry to set up the main political points and framework for this agreement we must also at the same time insist on maintaining the standards which we have in Europe.

3. Sally Findley:

   Evidence shows that the families who initiate regular primary care while the child is an infant are more likely to continue having a good relationship with the provider, maintaining the medical home, between ages 1 and 5.

4. Brian Levin:

   When you have an unpredictable occupation like this you have to free up a lot of personnel assets and resources, the cost of maintaining a multi-agency task force can get very expensive.

5. Antonio Megale:

   We are very concerned about maintaining the level of employment and avoiding new layoffs, because we also have a specialized workforce and it's not good to lose those professionals.

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