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sustainers

sustainers is the plural of sustainer.

Meaning of sustainer

Noun

sustainer (plural sustainers)

  1. A person or thing that sustains.
    • […] But thy selfe, hast a sustainer bene
      Of much affliction in my cause: […]c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 23, p. 320
  2. A rocket engine that remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after the separation of the booster engines.
  3. (US) A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.
  4. (US, obsolete) A radio program without a commercial sponsor.
    • 21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let’s Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat.1943 September 6, “Wallflowers Join the Dance”, in Time, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2013

Questions about sustainers

What is sustainers the plural of?
Sustainers is the plural of sustainer.

Words near sustainers in the dictionary

  1. sustained
  2. sustained yield
  3. sustained yields
  4. sustainedly
  5. sustainer
  6. sustainers
  7. sustainest
  8. sustaineth
  9. sustaining
  10. sustaining program
  11. sustaining programme

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