sostenimiento

m.

sustenance, the act of sustaining; support.

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sostenimiento

► nombre masculino

1 (apoyo) support

2 (mantenimiento) maintenance

3 (sustento) sustenance

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SM

1) (=sujeción) support

las vigas sirven de principal sostenimiento al edificio — the girders act as the building's main support

2) (=conservación)

una política de sostenimiento de precios — a policy of maintaining price levels

medidas que contribuyen al sostenimiento de la democracia — measures that contribute to the upholding o maintenance of democracy

3) (=apoyo) [financiero] maintenance; [con alimentos] sustenance

para el sostenimiento de la economía — for the maintenance of o to maintain the economy

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= sustaining, sustainment.

Ex. This article considers practical aspects of the transition from printed forms to electronic publishing, and the sustaining of profitability.

Ex. America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

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= sustaining, sustainment.

Ex: This article considers practical aspects of the transition from printed forms to electronic publishing, and the sustaining of profitability.

Ex: America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

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sostenimiento nm

1. [apoyo] support

2. [sustento] sustenance

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sostenimiento

m support