mainstay English

Meaning mainstay meaning

What does mainstay mean?

mainstay

— noun the forestay that braces the mainmast

— noun (= anchor, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin) 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 (= pillar) a prominent supporter he is a pillar of the community

Synonyms mainstay synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mainstay?

mainstay English » English

pillar

backbone

support

prop

nucleus

linchpin

main power

main force

lynchpin

leader

keystone

forestay

central figure

authority

anchor

vertebral column

supporter

support column

stylobate

stanchion

spine

spinal column

sinew

responsible person

prop of a roof

principle person

pivot

pilar

key man

key

framework

cornerstone

core number

chine

centre fielder

centre field

centre

central pillar

center fielder

center field

center

buttress

back

Examples mainstay examples

How do I use mainstay in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Food production is a mainstay of the country's economy.

He was the mainstay of this familiy.

Movie subtitles

The best mainstay a man can have as he gets along in years is a daughter.

Before the split, the New Pit was the mainstay, since we were small.

The mainstay of the Alamo diet is corn.

I'm trying to make a serious point. which is that a masculine love of physical beauty and of moral beauty. and of the beauty of the thirst for human knowledge - you omit that and you've omitted the mainstay of Athenian society.

Fortunately, soup is the mainstay of our diet.

Well, yes, it's the mainstay of civilisation as we know it, probably.

And these are not marginal experiments they are the mainstay of large numbers of communities across the world.

It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.

Hear what '80s mainstay Howard Hesseman has to say about it.

Communication is the mainstay of all life.

In rural England, there's a project under way that could seriously undermine inflation, the mainstay of the current cosmology.

The mainstay of nutrition education for over 30 years, the basic four defined what an entire generation of Americans believed was healthy to eat.

Yeah, you guys have those federal pension plans tied in with our mainstay fund.

However, the mainstay of his diet is seals, and now is the time when they have their pups.

Ease the strain on that mainstay. - Aye, master.

I suppose the best mainstay a man can have as he gets along in years is a daughter.

You've been their mainstay for years.

With us tonight are plant owner C.M. Burns. union kingpin Homer Simpson. and talk show mainstay Dr. Joyce Brothers.

I mean, pot's the mainstay.

The mainstay of the business is delivery of noodles to schools and hospitals.

It's going to be my second act mainstay.

Now I could sing to help my people, and that became the mainstay of my life.

And now, ladies and gentlemen one of the most exciting items of the night a mainstay on the FBI's most wanted list this gentleman has been on the list longer than any other criminal.

But it doesn't matter what you order, ladies and gentlemen, the mainstay of any meal will be salt and pepper.

Procedure's a mainstay in the CT repertoire.

Gliding above you. Sailing straight into every debate. A mainstay of every conversation.

News and current affairs

Surgery, although not always curative, is the mainstay of treatment because most tumors left in place will spread.

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the UK.

Intel, the world's biggest chip maker and a Silicon Valley mainstay, hasn't built a factory in California for more than 20 years.

Germany, by contrast, is a mainstay of the democratic world.

First, services growth is beginning to tap a new source of labor-income generation, the mainstay of consumer demand.