maintenance staff
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈmeɪn.tən.əns stæf/
:
personal de mantenimiento
- Our company's maintenance staff is responsible for keeping all the office equipment in good condition.
Examples
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Finally, maintenance staff should endeavor to respond immediately to plumbing complaints from building occupants.
Academic text (2006) -
These written materials would advise occupants to notify maintenance staff of sewer gas odors, pipe leaks, bubbles in toilets, and so forth.
Academic text (2006) -
Develop a risk communication plan that includes an awareness training course for maintenance staff.
Academic text (2006) -
Maintenance staff should be alert to tenant installations.
Academic text (2006) -
It has come to my attention that the maintenance staff is switching our toilet paper from Charmin to generic.
Fiction book (2001) -
In addition, maintenance staff should regularly inspect plumbing systems to ensure that floor drains, sinks, bathtubs, and other sanitary fixtures are fitted with U-traps and that the traps are sealed.
Academic text (2006) -
The maintenance staff quickly repaired the heating system before the winter months arrived.
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During the meeting, the manager praised the maintenance staff for their efficient handling of the repairs.
Synonyms
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3.0
The part of a company that helps customers with problems and fixes products
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2.5
People who work at a place doing cleaning, fixing and helping customers
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'maintenance' means the activities of checking and repairing and 'staff' means employees, so together they denote the employees responsible for maintenance. This noun–noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun maintenance staff comes from the simple idea that maintenance means 'to keep things working' and staff means the people who do the work. It gives the image of a team who 'fix' and 'care for' buildings, machines and other parts of a place, so the phrase means the group who look after and repair a building or business.