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sustainment

sustainment

1 7.2
To provide food, water, and help so people can live
  • noun
  • /səˈsteɪnmənt/
translation icon : sostenimiento
  • As Pittsburgh progresses in response to the innovative industries establishing here and its vivacious cultural renaissance, we hope to see an increase in the community of serious collectors, more outreach and collaboration from the large institutions, and the sustainment of Pittsburgh's unrelenting communal support.
  • sustainment brigade

Examples

  • Additionally, the Canal guaranteed efficient use of logistics facilities and training centers on all three coasts of the United States for the sustainment of US presence wherever and for as long as it might be needed.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Results are discussed in the context of students' experience of yearly change in classroom environments, teachers' variable behavioral expectations and perceptions, and the need for intervention maintenance plans to support the sustainment of treatment effects.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Infrastructure has a major impact on military sustainment operations as well as on rebuilding efforts and the economic growth of the country.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Development and sustainment of a national NP database and tracking system.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The army's M1A1/2 tank supply and sustainment is easily over 60 percent reliant on foreign customer purchases.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Furthermore, the growth of academic interest in military history and the sustainment of top-notch foreign area studies programs have led to fulfillment of many of the fundamental requirements of comprehensive, cultural-historical studies of war.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Effective AU peace support missions also need deployment and sustainment capabilities, combat effectiveness, capable command, control, communications, and intelligence, as well as professional training, including education in civil-military relations, international humanitarian law, and human rights.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Farmers rely on adequate rainfall for the sustainment of their crops each season.

  • The organization focuses on the sustainment of community programs through consistent funding.

  • Healthy diets are essential for the sustainment of physical well-being and energy levels.

Synonyms

nourishment
vssustainment
38 2.0

Food and drink needed for growth and health

is about the general act of keeping life going rather than just nutrients
sustenance
vssustainment
23 5.7

Food and drink that keep you alive and healthy

is about the act of providing that support, not just the items
maintenance
vssustainment
19 3.6

Providing food and other needs so a person or family can live

is the same act expressed using an alternate common word
subsistence
vssustainment
16 6.6

Food and other things people need to live

is focused on supplying those resources rather than naming them
sustentation
vssustainment
9.9

Help that keeps people alive by giving food or money

is the same act expressed as a different word

Antonyms

neglect
100 3.5

Not caring for someone or something that needs care

How Much Support

abundance
91 3.3
maintenance
350 3.6
sustainment
1 7.2
subsistence
16 6.6
scarcity
29 4.4

Surface Forms

sustainment singular
sustainments plural

Morphology

sustainment = sustain (transparent) = sustain + ment

Standard nominalization of the verb 'sustain' with '-ment' denoting the act or result; meaning is directly derived from the verb.

Etymology

The word sustainment comes from sustain, which comes from an old Latin root tenere meaning 'to hold', and you can see the same idea in words like retain and tenant. So, sustainment is about 'holding up' life by providing the food and support people need to keep alive.