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provoca·tive main·te·nance

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  1. provocative maintenance

    [common ironic mutation of preventive maintenance] Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing; such ‘maintenance’ often induces problems, or otherwise results in the machine's remaining in an unusable state for an indeterminate amount of time. See also scratch monkey.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of provocative maintenance in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of provocative maintenance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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