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Able to continue over a period of time
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sustainable
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Word definitions for sustainable in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of being sustained
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sustainable development (= that is able to continue without damaging the environment ) ▪ The government is committed to sustainable development and the protection of the environment. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "bearable," from sustain + -able . Attested from 1845 in the sense "defensible;" from 1965 with the meaning "capable of being continued at a certain level." Sustainable growth is recorded from 1965. Related: Sustainably .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Able to be sustained. 2 Able to be produced or sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sustainable \Sus*tain"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. soutenable, OF. soustenable.] Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
Usage examples of sustainable.
Keff, even sustainable technology could take care of that midden heap in a more aesthetic and less odiferous fashion.
Finding Widdows, so that he could answer questions, now became the only sustainable line of enquiry in the murder investigation.
The United Nations - and the acronym soup of multilateral development banks, aid agencies and non-governmental organizations that descended on the region - failed to come up with a coherent plan for endowing Kosovo with a sustainable economy.
State commissions in drafting rate orders that will prove to be justiciably sustainable.
Nora wanted to talk about sustainable agriculture, but her charming Austrian accent made it impossible for me to focus on anything but Lipizzaners, those fine, white Austrian Imperial equines.
Respiratory functions were on the high side, but sustainable, as hormone levels whipsawed between apparent panic and anger states.
And notice that these social holons become larger, not smaller, in physical size, because once on a new level, that level expands up to its sustainable limits.
If we're lucky it will give up, or lose track or memory of you, and dissipate when its binding energy drops below a sustainable level.
Medical experts maintain that hyperfocus is not sustainable over the required hours of operation.
Asset realization is not sustainable in the long term, or even the medium term.
The far end of the mine does not have a sustainable atmosphere, and we're way past the time when someone could use the self-rescuers to survive.
It will also provide a working display of these technologies for the visiting public and help to publicise, throughout Europe, the potential for sustainable building design and solar energy.
The goal of Martian economics is not 'sustainable development' but a sustainable prosperity for its entire biosphere.
The World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development may be operating by the time this article appears.
Reprinted in The Sustainable Development Syllabus, available at 800-544-8927.