Usually means: Maintenance or support of life.
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  1. sustentation: Merriam-Webster
  2. sustentation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sustentation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sustentation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sustentation: Vocabulary.com
  6. sustentation: Wordnik
  7. sustentation: Wiktionary
  8. sustentation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sustentation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sustentation: Dictionary.com
  11. Sustentation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sustentation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. sustentation: Rhymezone
  14. Sustentation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sustentation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. sustentation: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sustentation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sustentation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sustentation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sustentation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sustentation)

noun:  The act or the result of sustaining; sustainment; sustention.
noun:  The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
noun:  (Christianity) The scheme by which the ministers of the Free Church of Scotland are supported by voluntary contributions not local or congregational, but with a national altruism or solidarity paid into a great central fund, out of which equal stipends are paid to all alike.

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