mismaintain

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ maintain.

Verb

mismaintain (third-person singular simple present mismaintains, present participle mismaintaining, simple past and past participle mismaintained)

1. To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.
   • 1990, Mass Transit - Volume 17, page 50:

     A bus can be mismaintained causing it to spill gallons of expensive fuel rounding the first corner of the day.

   • 2016, John A. Wise, V. David Hopkin, Daniel J. Garland, Handbook of Aviation Human Factors, page 29-17:

     It is applicable if a product is found defective and unreasonably dangerous regardless of the care in design, manufacturing, or preparation of instructions, given that the user had not mismaintained, misused, or abused the product.

   • 2017, Diane Holloway Cheney, Sleep Problems: Food Solutions:

     They wrote: Rancho Seco was “mismanaged, mismaintained, and misoperated” since its beginning.