MAINSTAY


Meaning of MAINSTAY in English

(~s)

If you describe something as the ~ of a particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it.

Fish and rice were the ~s of the country’s diet...

This principle of collective bargaining has been a ~ in labor relations in this country.

N-COUNT: usu the N of n

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