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sustainer

[ suh-stey-ner ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that sustains.
Rocketry.
1. any stage of a multistage rocket or guided missile that sustains flight after the burnout of the booster.
2. the rocket engine or cluster of engines contained in such a stage.

First recorded in 1350–1400, sustainer is from the Middle English word sosteynere. See sustain, -er ¹

Everyone, all the builders and sustainers and stakeholders, wants better.

Over the same period, the market capitalization of sustainers dropped by a similar amount.

A suffocating silence filled the Sustainer Theater on LSA Anaconda in Iraq.

Not only is the sun the giver and sustainer of life, but it is also the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

To whom belongs this rôle of educator, protector, sustainer?

He was not denying any 'All-embracer and All-sustainer,' for he knew of none such.

The people of Crete adored her as the Great Mother, more especially in her signification as the sustainer of the vegetable world.

He was the sustainer of the universe, the lawgiver, the god of moral rectitude, and the sublime sovereign of gods and men.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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