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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sustainable
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
environmentally
▪ The two governments will work together on solutions for environmental problems based on principles of environmentally sustainable development.
▪ We believe that this what is required if we are to achieve environmentally sustainable development.
▪ Labour will promote environmentally sustainable development and encourage new approaches to reduce Third World debt.
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▪ The contract was quickly sold down to a more sustainable 2600 level.
▪ So perhaps another way to foster a more sustainable gay culture would be to create institutions that promote intergenerational interaction.
▪ In too few cases has the reduction been accompanied by an admission that the new base will be more sustainable in future.
▪ Nor does performance shift to a new more sustainable level.
▪ Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s.
■ NOUN
agriculture
▪ The basic challenge for sustainable agriculture is to maximise the use of locally-available and renewable resources.
▪ One battleground in the debate is the issue of whether biotechnology threatens sustainable agriculture.
▪ While companies talk about sustainable agriculture, they create plant varieties that can withstand being sprayed by their most virulent herbicides.
▪ What is the expected response of farmers in industrialised countries to sustainable agriculture?
▪ It is essential that sustainable agriculture be developed in the areas already deforested and settled.
▪ Hence sustainable agriculture could replace unsustainable agriculture, reducing the impact of erosion and flooding on downstream agricultural areas.
▪ Extensification for meat production purposes is therefore an option that is consistent with sustainable agriculture.
▪ Quietly, slowly and significantly, sustainable agriculture is sweeping the farming systems of the world.
development
▪ Analyse policy options for dealing with global environmental change and promoting the goal of sustainable development.
▪ The guidelines introduce into local planning the concept of protecting the environment through sustainable development.
▪ We believe that this what is required if we are to achieve environmentally sustainable development.
▪ The fashionable creed of sustainable development panders to that sort of thinking.
▪ Sets out a definition of sustainable development and the government's commitment in practical terms.
▪ New commitments from the sustainable development plan would be incorporated in the White Paper's tables for subsequent monitoring.
▪ Labour will embrace the goal of sustainable development, with environmental modernisation an integral part of our industrial strategy.
▪ Mr. Win Griffiths Does the Minister intend to bring the concept of sustainable development right into planning guidance as a primary role?
forest
▪ He tries to buy wood which has a certificate to say it comes from sustainable forests.
▪ It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management.
growth
▪ The foundations have been laid for sustainable growth in both output and employment.
▪ Economic stability has been restored, setting the foundation for sustainable growth. 2.
▪ As the economy slows, the markets are likely to trim their estimates of sustainable growth in both productivity and profits.
▪ When thinking about sustainable growth rates, subtract at least 4 percentage points from current published figures.
management
▪ Greenpeace has described the guidelines' description of sustainable management as too vague.
source
▪ Before you buy furniture, make sure it isn't made from tropical hardwoods, unless from a sustainable source.
▪ Care must be taken to ensure plants are obtained from a sustainable source Reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
use
▪ We strongly advocate sustainable use of coastal resources, which includes the exploitation of minerals.
▪ As encouraging the sustainable use of coral reefs for the fishkeeping hobby.
▪ Land-use has to be balanced to achieve sustainable use.
way
▪ Patients quality of life was enhanced, they returned to work, and their disease progression was delayed in a sustainable way.
▪ There is no challenge more pressing nor more fundamental than developing a genuinely sustainable way of life for humankind.
yield
▪ In general, the aim of fisheries advisers is to establish the maximum sustainable yield for each prey species.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ sustainable economic growth
▪ All wood used in our furniture comes with a certificate saying it comes from sustainable forests
▪ Traditional agricultural methods employed by the local people are highly sustainable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ So perhaps another way to foster a more sustainable gay culture would be to create institutions that promote intergenerational interaction.
▪ The fashionable creed of sustainable development panders to that sort of thinking.
▪ The political Greens took it as confirmation that industrial society was indeed not sustainable.
▪ The Queensland Conservation Council accepts that grants are needed to encourage sustainable land management.
▪ The Toronto Protocol is entitled: Public Transport -- a major contributor to liveable communities and sustainable development.
▪ These raise questions like: What is sustainable tourism?
▪ Which industries out of this set will be sustainable?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sustainable

Sustainable \Sus*tain"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. soutenable, OF. soustenable.] Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sustainable

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
sustainable

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.

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WordNet
sustainable

adj. capable of being sustained

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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.