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What is the noun for sustenation?

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sustainer
  1. A person or thing that sustains.
  2. (US) A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.
  3. (US, obsolete) A radio program without a commercial sponsor.
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    1. “The two-stage missile is equipped with solid propellant booster and sustainer rocket motors.”
      “God in the scripture is the creator and sustainer of the universe, he's the sovereign over everything.”
      “Rather, they were the genesis of and continue to be the sustainer of their networks.”
sustainability
  1. The ability to sustain something.
  2. (ecology) A means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals for future generations.
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    1. “I'm happy to accept this wager as a measure of the quality of my predictions about the long term sustainability of commons-based peer production.”
      “Seven focus on pollution and prevention issues and three on wider concerns relative to corporate sustainability.”
      “Human harvesting of shellfish has raised concerns over ecosystem sustainability.”
sustentation
  1. The act, or the result of sustaining; sustainment.
  2. The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
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    1. “We also analyze the coupling strength threshold for sustentation of the connection.”
      “Twenty per cent of the sustentation fee shall be paid into a specially held account for the purposes of campaigning.”
      “But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation.”
sustain
  1. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
sustenation
  1. (uncommon) The process of sustaining something; sustentation; maintenance.
sustenance
  1. Something that provides support or nourishment.
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    1. “Milk from mammals is the sole source of sustenance and growth nutrition-wise for infants.”
      “Unable to leave the pond and lose sight of himself, Narcissus died from a lack of sustenance.”
      “The war has deprived rural populations of their means of sustenance.”
sustaining
sustainment
  1. The act of sustaining something
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    1. “We must consider other sustainment options, including presidential selective-reserve call-up or full mobilization.”
      “Reorganizing the Army to make the brigade the basic combat unit, however, begs the issue of adequate sustainment.”
      “During deployment, leaders should establish sustainment and cross-training plans on platoon organic weapons.”
sustention
  1. sustentation
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    1. “Accuracy, verisimilitude, sustention, count for nothing in comparison with imaginative adroitness and variety.”
      “And those qualities that good mystery or thriller writing calls for are not to be despised, since they include economy, skillful sustention of suspense, and very artful plotting.”
      “It is common on material issues for companies to solicit input from multiple firms on their prior audit experiences and sustention rates.”
sustentacle
  1. (obsolete) sustenance
sustainabilities
sustentations
sustentacles
  1. plural of sustentacle
sustainments
sustainings
sustenances
sustentions
sustainers
  1. plural of sustainer
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    1. “Expand the below-the-zone promotion rate for sustainers to accommodate larger numbers of highly creative thinkers and doers.”
      “Mr. scrivener and Captain Smith were now in fact the sustainers of the colony.”
      “In order to put the time and energy necessary into our continuing publication, we need the help of readers, content contributors, and financial sustainers.”
sustains
  1. plural of sustain
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