Usually means: Maintained continuously without interruption.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word sustained:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustained: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sustained: Merriam-Webster
  3. sustained: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sustained: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sustained: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sustained, sustained: Wordnik
  7. sustained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sustained: Wiktionary
  9. sustained: Dictionary.com
  10. sustained: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Sustained: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sustained: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. sustained: Rhymezone
  14. sustained: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sustained: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. sustained: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sustained: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sustained: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustained: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sustained: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sustained: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Held continuously at a certain level.
▸ adjective:  (music) Held at a certain pitch.

Similar:
continuous, uninterrupted, free burning, prolonged, suffer, accelerated, steady, underpin, consistent, manifest, more...

Opposite:
temporary, fleeting, intermittent, sporadic, transient

Types:
monophonic, stereophonic, quadrophonic, surround sound, binaural, surround, more...

Phrases:
sustained yield, sustained release, objection sustained, sustained yields, self sustained, more...

Colors:
    emerald,     forest green,     olive,     sage,     teal, more...



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Similar:
continuous, uninterrupted, free burning, prolonged, suffer, accelerated, steady, underpin, consistent, manifest, more...

Opposite:
temporary, fleeting, intermittent, sporadic, transient

Types:
monophonic, stereophonic, quadrophonic, surround sound, binaural, surround, more...

Phrases:
sustained yield, sustained release, objection sustained, sustained yields, self sustained, sustained overdraft, sustained release medication, Maximum sustained wind, sustained conflict, able to be sustained, more...

Colors:
    emerald,     forest green,     olive,     sage,     teal, more...



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