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How to pronounce maintainer in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sustainer, upholder
Type of admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter
Derivation maintain

Examples of maintainer

maintainer
The only way to communicate with the maintainer is to subscribe to Livejournal.
From the scienceblogs.com
In 1994 Rob Nation stopped developing FVWM and made Charles Hines the maintainer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I think the bot has been down for a few months, and its maintainer is inactive.
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In 1980, area farmers braced the stone walls with maintainer blades and rebar.
From the kansas.com
Also used when a listed entity threatens a blacklist maintainer with legal action.
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Just a note to say I've removed my name as maintainer of List of opera genres.
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It appears that the maintainer of this portal is pretty much done maintaining.
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Ikey Doherty was the original developer and maintainer of the Debian edition.
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He is also the maintainer of the linux-hotplug and created the udev projects.
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More examples
  • Upholder: someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy"
  • A volunteer who participates in the organized trail-maintenance programs of the ATC and its member clubs.
  • Someone who ports a product to a distribution.
  • A Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, or a maintenance organisation, contracted by the registration holder to carry out maintenance on the registration holder's aircraft.
  • A railroad employee who maintains, or fixes signals.
  • The maintainer of a package is the person or group of people responsible for package maintenance; see Debian Policy. See also Debian Maintainer and Debian New Maintainer process.
  • The individual, committee, board of directors, or foundation that accepts or rejects code changes into an open source project. You can also think of the maintainer as the project manager. Probably the most well-known maintainer is Linus Torvalds (the creator of the Linux kernel).