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sustainer🔊

A person or thing that sustains.

💬 Quotations
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.

(aeronautics) A rocket engine that remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after the separation of the booster engines.

(US) A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.

(US, obsolete) A radio program without a commercial sponsor.