mainstay
IPA: mˈeɪnsteɪ
noun
- A chief support.
- Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution.
- (nautical) A stabilising rope from high on the mainmast to the base of the foremast.
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Examples of "mainstay" in Sentences
- The Academy is the mainstay of teaching.
- Fishing is the mainstay of the population.
- Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy.
- Fishing is the mainstay of the local economy.
- Dairy farming became the mainstay of the area.
- Regression models are the mainstay of predictive analytics.
- The mainstay of the conservative treatment is smoking cessation.
- The mainstay is just making sure people don't die of dehydration.
- The mainstay of treatment of epilepsy is anticonvulsant medications.
- In the past the logging industry formed the mainstay of the economy.
- Agriculture is the mainstay of the residents of this charming village.
- The bullpen mainstay is Troy Percival, who converted 39 of 42 save opportunities.
- Guyana and West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is often described as the mainstay of the regional side.
- The lot more includes her jewellery and interior designing business, which she calls her mainstay profession. “I have quite a few theme projects coming up on the interior designing front.
- If we are not able to do our study and use the commentaries for correction afterward, if our mainstay is not the word of God but the words of anybody else, we are still derivative teachers. from → Articles
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- My jobs mainstay is visiting hunters and I've watched these guys/gals spend thoudands of dollars so I see increased licenses fees, hotel/motel taxes and maybe even an October through December fuel tax as a way to fund a state sponsored program.
- (Senate Historian Richard Baker, Defense Correspondent Tony Capaccio, Sen. Sam Nunn, assorted biologists, engineers, and international journalists) These people may or may not have opinions, but their mainstay is fact-based explanations of their specialties for the intelligent layman.