mismaintain

present singular third person mismaintains · participle present mismaintaining · participle past mismaintained · past mismaintained

1. To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.

   They wrote: Rancho Seco was “mismanaged, mismaintained, and misoperated” since its beginning.

   2017, Diane Holloway Cheney, Sleep Problems: Food Solutions

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   A bus can be mismaintained causing it to spill gallons of expensive fuel rounding the first corner of the day.

   1990, Mass Transit - Volume 17, page 50

   It is applicable if a product is found defective and unreasonably dangerous regardless of the care in design, manufacturing, or preparation of instructions, given that the user had not mismaintained, misused, or abused the product.

   2016, John A. Wise, V. David Hopkin, Daniel J. Garland, Handbook of Aviation Human Factors, page 29-17