Maintain and Ready

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Maintain verb - To keep in good condition.

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Ready and maintain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead a verb "Maintain".

Ready verb - To make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function.

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Maintain and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

attitude	maintain attitude	ready attitude
power	maintain power	ready power
life	maintain life	ready life
order	maintain order	ready order
Other words: body, place, level, world, weapons.

Most of Adams' heroes maintain their sanity by being ready to abandon it at the drop of a hat.

Source: World Gone Mad
The Navy pilot and maintain the ship, the Marines are troops on board ready to deploy to a combat zone its the Navy's job to get them and drop them off safe.

Source: Semper Fi
Take The Mechanist, able to build and maintain a small army of combat-ready robots, or the Surgeon, a Mad Scientist implied to be able to control ghouls and super mutants via computer chip implants, who appears in a sidequest and never again.

Source: Video Game / Fallout 3

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