sustainability in Malay
kemampanan
UK/səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti//səˌsteɪnəˈbɪləti/
sustainability in Malay: kemampanan. In English, sustainability means a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these necessary resources for future generations.
Malay words for sustainability
- ability to sustain something
- kemampanan
English meaning of sustainability
- noun A means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these necessary resources for future generations.
- noun The ability to sustain a business in the long term, which is a state that is partly dependent on, but broader than, profitability today or in the short term; it involves aspects of a plausible path toward eventual profitability (as applies to a startup) and ecologic sustainability (for example, the long-term dependence of the timber/lumber industry on forest preservation and renewal, or of fisheries on viable fish stocks).
- noun The ability to sustain a civic practice or process in the long term, such as democracy, entrepreneurialism, a war effort, or others.
- noun The ability to sustain something.
sustainability in a sentence
- The making of buggy whips is the proverbial exemplar of a business without sustainability in the face of technological change.
- universal primary and secondary education, without which the sustainability of innovation and entrepreneurialism seems questionable
sustainability in other languages
Questions about sustainability in Malay
- What is the meaning of sustainability in Malay?
- Sustainability in Malay is kemampanan.
- Apakah maksud sustainability dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Sustainability: kemampanan.
- What does sustainability mean in English?
- Sustainability means a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these necessary resources for future generations.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sustainability (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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