Usually means: Maintains, supports continuation over time.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustains: Merriam-Webster
  2. sustains: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sustains: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sustains, sustains: Wordnik
  5. sustains: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sustains: Wiktionary
  7. sustains: Dictionary.com
  8. sustains: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. sustains: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustains: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sustains: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sustains: Encyclopedia

(Note: See sustain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sustain)

verb:  (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
verb:  (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
verb:  (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something).
verb:  (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
verb:  (law, of a judge) To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
verb:  To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
verb:  To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
noun:  (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
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