Maintain

Definition

maintain / meÇn'teÇn / v ၁။ ထိန္းသိမ္းသည္။ ထိန္းသည္။ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္သည္။ maintain friendly relations with sb ❍ maintain law and order/standards ❍ maintain prices (ie prevent them falling or rising) ❍ The improvement in his health is being maintained. ၂။ ျပဳျပင္ထိန္းသိမ္းသည္။ The house is large and difficult to maintain. ❍ Engineers maintain the turbines. ၃။ (ယူဆခ်က္တစ္ခုကို) ဆုပ္ကိုင္ထားသည္၊ ခံယူထားသည္။ maintain one's innocence ❍ He has always maintained that he was not guilty of the crime. ၄။ ေငြေၾကးေထာက္ပံ့သည္၊ ပံ့ပိုးသည္။ earn enough to maintain a family in comfort ❍ This school is maintained by a charity.

Examples

1. Maintaining your current weight through exercise and healthy eating is important.
2. It’s sometimes hard to maintain the right balance between your work and your home life.
3. [maintain stability/continuity/the status quo] : The problem of maintaining social stability in a period of great economic change
4. [maintain contact/relations/links] : Though now in government
5. he has maintained close contact with his former colleagues in the oil industry.
6. Some schools experienced difficulty in maintaining staffing levels.
7. Regular inspections ensure that high safety standards are maintained.
8. A lovingly maintained houseboat
9. The missile system
10. Bush maintains
11. will protect the US against so-called rogue states.
12. [maintain (that)] : The company still maintains that the drug is safe.
13. [maintain your innocence] : She maintained her innocence throughout the trial.
14. He was barely earning enough to maintain himself.