Used in a Sentence

maintainers

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for maintainers.

Editorial note

Or just leads to camels' quality to gradually deteriorate, leading to increasing bug rates and camel maintainers' depression.

Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of maintainers gathered in one view.

noun

Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

noun

A person who does maintenance work.

noun

(dentistry) A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for maintainers.

noun

Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

noun

A person who does maintenance work.

noun

(dentistry) A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

Example sentences

1

Or just leads to camels' quality to gradually deteriorate, leading to increasing bug rates and camel maintainers' depression.

2

It is on OpenSSL and the distro maintainers to release the update, and on me to apply the update.

3

Everything compiles, everything works, and he goes home happy after a productive day of laying mines for future maintainers.

4

We are active maintainers of the Cloud Haskell project and authors of the HaskellR project, among other open source contributions.

5

So my interpretation was quite natural: the libav developers and/or the Ubuntu maintainers were being dicks to the original project.

6

When OpenSSL has a vulnerability, they announce it after the fix is out, distro maintainers release updated packages, I run `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` or equivalent.

7

The Tcl maintainers are really good at what they do for Tcl and the community.

8

If anything, the Go model is a headache for package maintainers to deal with.

9

No, it moved because the forkers were also the Debian package maintainers.

10

I don't know how real contributors/maintainers feel, but as a user and sometimes patch-submitter, I feel like things have gotten better.

11

Java maintainers will update WebKit periodically, including within a major version.

12

The maintainers were given 24hrs and instructions to fix it.

Quote examples

1

Some "maintainers" don't even respond to such requests and are in business of harvesting data themselves.

2

Their "open" system is a fractured jumble of closed systems with indifferent maintainers.

3

It could include anti-blackmail clauses like that agitating people on social media to "support" your issue by shaming the maintainers will get you banned and the issue closed immediately and irrevocably.

4

"When I first put video on 'the web' I got a really nasty email from one of the backbone maintainers that what I was doing was 'improper use' of the internet" not trying to pry but i can't even imagine a context under which that is an appropriate response.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use maintainers in a sentence?

Or just leads to camels' quality to gradually deteriorate, leading to increasing bug rates and camel maintainers' depression.

What does maintainers mean?

Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

What part of speech is maintainers?

maintainers is commonly used as noun.