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What (who) is Repair - definition

INVOLVES FUNCTIONAL CHECKS, SERVICING, REPAIRING OR REPLACING OF NECESSARY DEVICES, EQUIPMENT, MACHINERY, BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE, AND SUPPORTING UTILITIES IN INDUSTRIAL, BUSINESS, AND RESIDENTIAL INSTALLATIONS
Preventive maintenance; Repair; Support engineering; Preventative Maintenance; Repairs and maintenance; Repair and maintenance; Condition-based maintenance; Maintenance cost; Maintenance, Repair and Operations; Maintanance; Self diagnostic; Maintain; Condition Based Maintenance; Planned maintenance; Preventive Maintenance; Maintainer; Maintenance (technical); Operation and maintenance; Repairman; Maint; Repairing; Mending; Planned Preventative Maintenance; Scheduled maintenance; Planned Maintenance; Routine maintenance; Repair and overhaul; Repair and Overhaul; Operation and Maintenance; Maintenance, repair, & operations; Types of maintenence; Maintenance costs; Operations and Maintenance; Operations and maintenance; Maintenance, repair, and overhaul; Repairs; Planned preventive maintenance; Maintenance, repair, and operations; Maintenance, repair and operations; Repairer; Maintainance
  • A tractor being mechanically repaired in [[Werneuchen]], 1966.
  • C-130J Hercules preventive cleaning at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi after a period of operation over the Gulf of Mexico (salt and moisture which lead to active corrosion require regular cleaning)
  • Field repair of aircraft engine (1915–1916)
  • Road repair

repair         
UNITED STATES POLITICAL GROUP
REPAIR; RePAIR
I
n.
process of restoring to working order
1) to do, make a repair (we have done the necessary repairs)
2) extensive, major; minor; necessary repairs
3) repairs to (the repairs to our roof cost one hundred dollars)
4) under repair (the road is under repair)
condition
5) in repair (to keep a car in good repair; in poor repair)
II
v. (formal or humorous) (d; intr.) ('to go') to repair to (to repair to the drawing room)
repair         
UNITED STATES POLITICAL GROUP
REPAIR; RePAIR
(repairs, repairing, repaired)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you repair something that has been damaged or is not working properly, you mend it.
Goldsmith has repaired the roof to ensure the house is wind-proof...
A woman drove her car to the garage to have it repaired.
VERB: V n, have n V-ed
repairer (repairers)
...TV repairers.
N-COUNT: usu n N
2.
If you repair a relationship or someone's reputation after it has been damaged, you do something to improve it.
The government continued to try to repair the damage caused by the minister's interview...
VERB: V n
3.
A repair is something that you do to mend a machine, building, piece of clothing, or other thing that has been damaged or is not working properly.
Many women know how to carry out repairs on their cars...
There is no doubt now that her marriage is beyond repair.
N-VAR
4.
If someone repairs to a particular place, they go there. (FORMAL)
We then repaired to the pavilion for lunch.
VERB: V to n
5.
If something such as a building is in good repair, it is in good condition. If it is in bad repair, it is in bad condition.
The monks of Ettal keep the abbey in good repair...
PHRASE
repair         
UNITED STATES POLITICAL GROUP
REPAIR; RePAIR
repair1
¦ verb
1. restore (something damaged, worn, or faulty) to a good condition.
2. set right (a rift in relations).
¦ noun
1. the action of repairing.
a result of this.
2. the relative physical condition of an object.
Derivatives
repairable adjective
repairer noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. reparer, from L. reparare, from re- 'back' + parare 'make ready'.
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repair2
¦ verb (repair to) formal or humorous go to (a place).
¦ noun archaic an abode or haunt.
?frequent or habitual visiting of a place.
Origin
ME: from OFr. repairer, from late L. repatriare (see repatriate).

Wikipedia

Maintenance

The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installations. Over time, this has come to include multiple wordings that describe various cost-effective practices to keep equipment operational; these activities occur either before or after a failure.

Examples of use of Repair
1. The manufacturer presenting the highest repair bill was Porsche, with its cars costing an average of '72 to repair.
2. Conventional cartilage repair failed and she faced bone grafting before doctors could have attempted to repair her worn out cartilage.
3. Robinson took only the essential tools for the repair, leaving a tile repair kit just outside the airlock.
4. Bush has said Washington is working with Iraq to establish "rapid repair teams" to repair Iraq‘s energy infrastructure.
5. If investment projects are used to leverage the creation of new technology community repair, one should consider technology in situ, among others, to process operations that clean blockages that effect repair and maintenance in the aforementioned timely repair.