Meaning of Sustainer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person or thing that sustains.
2. A rocket engine that remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after the separation of the booster engines.
3. A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.
   US
4. A radio program without a commercial sponsor.
   US, obsolete

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Examples

“[…] But thy selfe, hast a sustainer bene Of much affliction in my cause: […]”

“1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer, No. 36, 24 July, 1724, London: S. Richardson & A. Wilde, p. 296, […] not One in Fifty, of our Men of Fashion, or of Quality, as they call⟳ themselves, has an Understanding that is able to go alone. They are forc’d, therefore, to wait⟳ ’till they have⟳ their Sustainer’s Opinion to lean⟳ against, before they dare venture upon the Praise⟳, even of what they are inclinable to think⟳ favourably of […]”

“[Bread] constitutes of itself a complete⟳ life sustainer, the gluten, starch and sugar which it contains representing ozotized and hydro-carbonated nutrients, and combining the sustaining powers of the animal and vegetable kingdoms in one product.”

“What a good lot of people they all were, I was betrayed by their applause and too many pink gins into thinking, the red-jowled sustainers of a great empire and their ladies, quaffers and yarners and players of deck games.”

“21st time this year a sponsor⟳ gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let’s Pretend⟳, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend⟳ for Cream of Wheat.”

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