undermaintain
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[edit]Verb
[edit]undermaintain (third-person singular simple present undermaintains, present participle undermaintaining, simple past and past participle undermaintained)
- (transitive) To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair.
- 1945 November snd December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:
- 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.
- 2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.