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mainstay
[ meyn-stey ]
noun
- Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
- a person or thing that acts as a chief support or part:
Coffee is the mainstay of the country's economy.
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mainstay
/ ˈɪˌٱɪ /
noun
- nautical the forestay that braces the mainmast
- a chief support
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The biggest negative of appointing Brook is the workload it adds to one of England's busiest players as a Test, 50-over and T20 mainstay.
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République is a mainstay of the Los Angeles dining scene, a French bistro routinely topping “best of” lists.
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Heroin and other hard drugs were a tour mainstay.
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These shamanistic masks have long been a mainstay of populists.
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The French Canadian conductor, just turned 50, is a mainstay on the East Coast as music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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