"maintenance burden" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the responsibility or cost of maintaining something. Example: "The new house came with a large maintenance burden, as it had a large yard and multiple appliances that needed frequent upkeep." In this sentence, "maintenance burden" is used to describe the responsibility and potential cost of maintaining the new house. Other possible uses of this phrase could include discussing the maintenance burden of a car, a company's equipment, or a government's infrastructure. Essentially, it can be used whenever there is a significant responsibility or financial burden associated with maintaining something.
A lease shifts the maintenance burden from understaffed parks to private lessees who must meet park preservation standards.
One architect who works in the sector, John Jenkins, spoke of "an ongoing maintenance burden that is storing up problems for the future", while Roger Hawkins said "the standard is so low, basically any old crap is allowed".
Adding to the maintenance burden, the building is festooned with gargoyles and grotesques staring from the walls, including monkeys playing lutes and banging drums and a gentleman with a severe Victorian moustache, incongruously dressed in a loincloth, holding up the mantelpiece.
The increasing number of parallel DAQ units has made the operational and maintenance burden very heavy.
Redistribution of classes in stereotyped packages clarifies their role and eases the maintenance burden.
Secondly, and more pragmatically, perhaps, by open sourcing the tool they now have a community of people working on it instead of just them, which can improve it and take the maintenance burden off of them.
Among others, bitumen stabilised ballast (BSB) represents an innovative solution designed to increase ballast service life and reduce overall maintenance burdens.
Technically, cloud has capability to store huge amounts of data with backup facility, and its computing part provides an attractive IT platform to cut down the cost of electronic health record systems in terms of both ownership and IT maintenance burdens for many medical practices.
There are many reasons why people are losing the drive to drive: the financial and maintenance burdens of auto ownership, an increase in transportation alternatives even in the suburbs, the Internet as a vehicle for shopping and entertainment, a return to cities, and what finally steered us away from car culture: a concern over the impact of cars on our environment.
The oversize Russian arsenal is the more dangerous, since decaying Russian technology poses a risk of accident, poor security arrangements invite theft and high maintenance expenses burden Moscow's strained economy.
Data indicate that the inverter is the element of the photovoltaic plant that has the highest number of service calls and the greatest operation and maintenance cost burden.
