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maintainer.

Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/meɪnˈteɪnə/UK
  1. Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

    He become the maintainer of the software project.
  2. A person who does maintenance work.

  3. A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

Where this word comes from

From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.

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