Usually means: Maintaining something continuously over time.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustaining: Merriam-Webster
  2. sustaining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sustaining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sustaining, sustaining: Wordnik
  5. sustaining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sustaining: Wiktionary
  7. sustaining: Dictionary.com
  8. sustaining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sustaining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Sustaining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sustaining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. sustaining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sustaining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sustaining: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sustaining)

▸ noun:  The process by which something is sustained or upheld.
▸ adjective:  That sustains, supports or provides sustenance.

Similar:
maintain, support, keep, keep up, get, hold up, hold, substantiate, confirm, affirm, more...

Opposite:
destructive, detrimental, harmful

Types:
nourishing, nutritious, healthy, invigorating, hearty, robust, strenuous, more...

Phrases:
life sustaining, self sustaining, sustaining pedal, sustaining programs, sustaining innovation, more...

Adjectives:
self, life, more, worth, less, all, mighty, consistent, continual, able, industrially

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Similar:
maintain, support, keep, keep up, get, hold up, hold, substantiate, confirm, affirm, more...

Opposite:
destructive, detrimental, harmful

Types:
nourishing, nutritious, healthy, invigorating, hearty, robust, strenuous, more...

Phrases:
life sustaining, self sustaining, sustaining pedal, sustaining programs, sustaining innovation, sustaining program, sustaining pedals, sustaining something, sustaining of something, more...

Adjectives:
self, life, more, worth, less, all, mighty, consistent, continual, able, industrially

Colors:
    green,     olive,     forest green,     sage,     emerald, more...



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