Usually means: Essential, enduring elements or staples.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word mainstays:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainstays: Merriam-Webster
  2. mainstays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mainstays: Vocabulary.com
  4. Mainstays, mainstays: Wordnik
  5. mainstays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. mainstays: Wiktionary
  7. mainstays: Dictionary.com
  8. mainstays: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Mainstays: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. mainstays: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstays: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstays: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mainstay)

noun:  A chief support.
noun:  Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution.
noun:  (nautical) A stabilising rope from high on the mainmast to the base of the foremast.
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