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provocative maintenance
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n. [common ironic mutation of preventive maintenance ] Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing; such maintenance often induces problems, or otherwise results in the machine's remaining in an un usable state for an indeterminate amount of time. See also scratch monkey.
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