sustenance
noun
means of sustaining or supporting life or health; nourishment, especially food and drink.
self-sustenance
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a word derived from
sustenance.
Example Sentences
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It is a communal means toward “a kind of self-sustenance that was an ancient wealth sounder than dollars.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Despite facing unprecedented difficulties, Kim had opened up a new era for North Korea as a powerful socialist nation prospering and developing with self-sustenance and self-reliance, Choe said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 2022
The scale of the farm is small, but to the community it means clear streams and self-sustenance, and to Amazon Conservation it represents a model for other communities.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015
Considering only their economic demerits, World Bank President George Woods has estimated that 30 of the world's underdeveloped nations are at least "generations" away from anything resembling self-sustenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
As to many things she was compliant, and as to some things she was weak; but there was in her composition a power of resistance and self-sustenance on which Lady Ball had not counted.
From Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope
