Sustainment

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sustainment \Sus*tain"ment\, n.
     The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. --Milton.
     Lowell.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sustainment
       n : the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of
           subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing
           was their main sustainment" [syn: {sustenance}, {sustentation},
            {maintenance}, {upkeep}]