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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