Usually means: Essential, fundamental part or support.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainstay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mainstay: Merriam-Webster
  3. mainstay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mainstay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mainstay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mainstay: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mainstay, mainstay: Wordnik
  8. mainstay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mainstay: Wiktionary
  10. mainstay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mainstay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mainstay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mainstay, mainstay: Dictionary.com
  14. mainstay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mainstay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mainstay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mainstay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mainstay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mainstay: Rhymezone
  20. mainstay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mainstay: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mainstay: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. mainstay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mainstay: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstay: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstay: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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