What does SUSTAINED mean?
Definitions for SUSTAINED
sus·tained
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word SUSTAINED.
Princeton's WordNet
sustainedadjective
maintained at length without interruption or weakening
"sustained flight"
free burning, sustainedadjective
(of an electric arc) continuous
"heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs"
Wiktionary
sustainedadjective
held continuously at a certain level
sustainedadjective
held at a certain pitch
Wikipedia
sustained
Sustain is a parameter of musical sound in time.
ChatGPT
sustained
Sustained generally means continuing or maintained at length without interruption or weakening. It is often used to describe something that is steady, constant, prolonged or extended over a certain period of time. This term can be applied in various contexts such as sustained effort, sustained growth, sustained attention, etc.
Webster Dictionary
Sustained
of Sustain
Sustainedadjective
held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music
Editors Contribution
sustained
At a moderate level with an accurate amount or number.
They had a sustained way of living.
Submitted by MaryC on February 13, 2020
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SUSTAINED in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SUSTAINED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of SUSTAINED in a Sentence
Really what they're trying to do overall, Jake, is reduce our confidence in our Democratic processes. And this is what they did obviously in 2016 and it's really part of a sustained campaign of political subversion.
This decision follows a sustained political attack on the Company, and the concern that the jobs and livelihoods of nearly one thousand employees would be at immediate risk as a result of the outgoing director's association with the company.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
It looks at this stage as if it (oil) has formed a little bit of a bottom and perhaps we're going to see a sustained price in the $30s, maybe trending back up to $40 dollars at some point, the macro picture takes all corners of the globe into account, and those corners seem to be improving ... and that's where I'm seeing the oil price tick higher.
None of those currently experiencing these worrisome trends ever fulfilled the criteria laid out by the task force, which included a sustained downtrend in the percent positive tests for at least 2 weeks.
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