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Sustainment

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of sustaining something

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of sustaining; maintenance; support; also, one who or that which sustains or supports.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

Word Usage

"In their paper, the officers argue that the United States has to move from "containment" - the foreign policy established after World War II to limit the expansion and influence of the Soviet Union - to what they call "sustainment" or sustainability."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

support

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

maintenance support

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

redeployment logistic reconstitution airlift logistical