SUSTAINMENT

sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeep

(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; “they were in want of sustenance”; “fishing was their main sustainment”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sustainment (countable and uncountable, plural sustainments)

The act of sustaining something

Source: Wiktionary


Sus*tain"ment, n.

Definition: The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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