Sustainer

Quick meaning: Sustainer is a noun meaning A person or thing that sustains.

Meaning

A person or thing that sustains.

More Meanings

1. (aeronautics) A rocket engine that remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after the separation of the booster engines.
2. (US) A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.
3. (US, obsolete) A radio program without a commercial sponsor.

Example Sentences

[…] But thy selfe, hast a sustainer bene Of much affliction in my cause: […]

21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let’s Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat.

What a good lot of people they all were, I was betrayed by their applause and too many pink gins into thinking, the red-jowled sustainers of a great empire and their ladies, quaffers and yarners and players of deck games.

[Bread] constitutes of itself a complete life sustainer, the gluten, starch and sugar which it contains representing ozotized and hydro-carbonated nutrients, and combining the sustaining powers of the animal and vegetable kingdoms in one product.

Word Forms

• sustainers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sustentator, cosustainer, maintainer, stayer, subsister, supporter.

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