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sustainments

sustainments is the plural of sustainment.

Meaning of sustainment

Noun

sustainment (countable and uncountable, plural sustainments)

  1. The act of sustaining something.
    • Mary heard with sorrow, and fear also, of the projected journey; but the altered expression of Isabella's countenance was a great palliative—dreadful as it was that her husband should love another (and of that distressing fact it was impossible to doubt), his confidence was consoling; and her power...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66
    Synonyms:
    sustention

Questions about sustainments

What is sustainments the plural of?
Sustainments is the plural of sustainment.

Words near sustainments in the dictionary

  1. sustaining programmes
  2. sustaining programs
  3. sustainingly
  4. sustainings
  5. sustainment
  6. sustainments
  7. sustains
  8. sustainwash
  9. sustainwashed
  10. sustainwashes
  11. sustainwashing

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