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Meanings of high maintenance in English

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Usage of high maintenance in English
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He said the company has operated under high maintenance and safety standards.
Reuters
2
When compared to food and fuel, it is non-essential and high maintenance.
The Guardian
3
Look, man, I'm telling you right off the bat, I'm high maintenance.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4
The foxy is really high energy and the husky is pretty high maintenance haha.
Radio NZ
5
She's confident, smart and effortlessly pretty without being high maintenance.
News.com.au
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As a parent, though, there are a few things that make it high maintenance.
Wired
7
What, do we sound like we're high maintenance or something?
News.com.au
8
Millennials have had a bad rap from their baby-boomer bosses for being too high maintenance.
The Irish Times
9
After all his dead-end romances, here was a woman who defined " high maintenance."
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
10
Would you say that you are high maintenance?
The Guardian
11
It fits a lot of different people, it holds up really well, and it's not high maintenance.
NY Magazine
12
The Missus and I are both first children, and both high maintenance in our own special ways.
The Irish Times
13
International Rules has always been high maintenance.
The Irish Times
14
She is the definition of high maintenance.
The Guardian
15
Archer had called the woman high maintenance.
Hush: a novel
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The average steam engine is delightfully high maintenance when it comes to supplying water, coal and people power.
The Irish Times
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