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  • 41maintenance test — USA A financial ratio test for covenant compliance that needs to be met at regular intervals (such as quarterly or the end of each fiscal quarter). For example, the borrower may be required to maintain a leverage ratio of less than 3.0:1.0. The… …

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  • 42maintenance and champerty — two former torts and crimes striking at a third party s support of another s litigation. Maintenance is the stirring up of litigation by supporting a party without having a just cause or excuse for so doing: Re Trepca Mines Ltd (No. 2) [1963] Ch …

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  • 43maintenance — (n.) mid 14c., bearing, deportment, from O.Fr. maintenance upkeep; shelter, protection,: from maintenir (see MAINTAIN (Cf. maintain)). Meaning action of upholding or keeping in being is from early 15c. Action of providing a person with the… …

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  • 44maintenance — Maintenance, Sans la maintenance et gouvernement de Dieu, toutes choses seroient en un moment reduictes à neant …

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  • 45Maintenance-free operating period — (MFOP) is an alternative measure of performance to MTBF, or mean time between failures, which has some mathematical issues mostly caused by the misconception that MTBF represents the point in time when the probability of failure is equal to the… …

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  • 46Maintenance — (mängtnangß), frz., die Erhaltung; mainteniren, festhalten, behaupten; Maintenure (mängtnühr), der gerichtliche Schutz bei einem Besitze …

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  • 47maintenance food — maintenance ration …

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  • 48Maintenance Error Decision Aid — (MEDA) ist ein vom Flugzeughersteller Boeing entwickelter strukturierter Prozess zur Erfassung und Analyse von Fehlern, die von technischem Personal oder Prüfern verursacht wurden. Dieser Prozess ist besonders auf die spezifischen Belange der… …

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  • 49maintenance assessment — the exercise carried out by a child support officer to fix the child support to be paid by an absent parent in respect of a qualifying child. The calculation is a complex one, a formula being provided in the legislation. There is, however, a… …

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  • 50maintenance allowance — index alimony Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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