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What does maintain mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word maintain? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action. [14th-19th c.]
  2. To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.). [from 14th c.]
  3. To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert. [from 15th c.]
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Some maintain that arbitration avoids prejudiced juries and sympathy verdicts, but such remarks may merely reflect their utterers' antijury bias.
Must such a neighborhood or district maintain a certain percentage of certifiably ethnic residents to maintain its eligibility?
Then the determinablist just has to maintain that there really could be electrons that are positively-charged.
He struggled to maintain eupepsia, but he suffered.
A fulfilling relationship is a wondrous thing to have but it does take effort to maintain and that entails the occasional chut pattern.
The ECB is the central bank for the eurozone, and thus controls monetary policy in that area with an agenda to maintain price stability.

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