Meanings
nounnonmaintenance (uncountable)
- uncountableFailure to maintain something.
The Kosi canal system has become defunct due to siltation and nonmaintenance.
1998, Kedar Nath Prasad, Dimensions of Development: Analysis of an Underdeveloped State, page 242
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