Meaning & use
Maintainable
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Able to be kept in good working condition or continued at a steady level over time.
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The engineers redesigned the code to be more maintainable for future developers.
The committee questioned whether the current spending levels were maintainable long-term.
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Widely used in software engineering to describe code that is easy to read, fix, and extend without excessive effort.
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