"maintenance-free" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From maintenance + -free. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|maintenance|free}} maintenance + -free Head templates: {{en-adj|-|head=maintenance-free}} maintenance-free (not comparable)
  1. Not requiring any maintenance. Tags: not-comparable Translations (not requiring maintenance): vedlikeholdsfri (Norwegian Bokmål), fără întreținere (Romanian), underhållsfri (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-maintenance-free-en-adj-ksx2j3GM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -free

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