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provocative maintenance

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Definition of provocative maintenance words

  • noun Technical meaning of provocative maintenance [Common ironic mutation of "preventive maintenance"] Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing; such "maintenance" often *induces* problems, or otherwise results in the machine's remaining in an *un*usable state for an indeterminate amount of time. See also scratch monkey. 1

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Parts of speech for Provocative maintenance

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

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