mainstay

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Editorial note

This brings an all new audience to the service, which has become a mainstay in the workplace.

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a prominent supporter; "he is a pillar of the community"

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noun

a prominent supporter; "he is a pillar of the community"

noun

a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"

noun

the forestay that braces the mainmast

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mainstay.

noun

a prominent supporter; "he is a pillar of the community"

noun

a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"

See also: anchor, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin

noun

the forestay that braces the mainmast

Example sentences

This brings an all new audience to the service, which has become a mainstay in the workplace.

Taco trucks have been a mainstay of Los Angeles foodstuffs for a long time before the current trend of 'gourmet' truck food started.

When I was growing up teenagers were the mainstay of the supermarket bag&checkout for example - now I see older people having these jobs.

Brand arbitrage is a mainstay of many affiliate marketers.

My mainstay is heavy image processing and procedural animation in Flex/Flash.

I don't know what current policies are at Nordstrom's, but it does seem that fashionable shoes for occasional use have long been a mainstay of the store's business.

Higher-kinded polymorphism, a mainstay in Haskell, is pretty rare to find almost anywhere else.

While Cracked are disciples of the church of lists, I wouldn't attribute the unfortunate trend to them: it has been a checkout line magazine mainstay for many, many years.

"As a note he says this will be the 'new mainstay of the air force' however we still have the F-22 as our air superiority fighter which is still believed to be better then anything out there, and indeed in their simulation the only limitation to the F-22 was there were too few of them.