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名詞

sustainment (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sustainments)

1. The act of sustaining something.
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 2, page 66:

     Mary heard with sorrow, and fear also, of the projected journey; but the altered expression of Isabella's countenance was a great palliative—dreadful as it was that her husband should love another (かつ of that distressing fact it was impossible to doubt), his confidence was consoling; and her power to prove the firmness of her character, her right to his esteem, and the immolation of her happiness to further his desires, had, in itself, the sustainment which belongs to great sacrifice.

   • 2009, January 5, U.S. Labor Looks to Obama for Help‎^[1]:

     Otherwise, the sustainment or creation of jobs is seriously imperiled.