sustainment

English

Etymology

From sustain +‎ -ment.

Noun

sustainment (countable and uncountable, plural sustainments)

1. The act of sustaining something.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, 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 (and 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”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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