Definition of "maintainers" [maintainers]

• Plural form of maintainer. (noun)

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• "From the banditti, called maintainers, who, in different counties, supported themselves by plunder, and, arming in defence of each other, set at defiance all the provisions of the law; and 4."
• "One of the chief of these "maintainers," or receivers of stolen property, was Lord O'Sullivan, or the Sulivan Bere of Berehaven."
• "For example, much controversy surrounds the interpretation of the 34th verse of Surah an-Nisa 'in the Qur'an which states that men are the "maintainers" of women."