sustainably

UK/səˈsteɪ.nə.bli/US/səˈsteɪ.nə.bli/

adverbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — sustain sits at #5,120leans written

Sustainably means in a way that can be kept up without using things up. Fish sustainably.

The test is whether it could go on for ever, which almost nothing passes. Working sustainably applies to people as much as to forests, and is ignored in both.

Definitions of sustainably

1adverbsustainablyIn a way that can be kept up without using things up.C1
“The forest has been worked sustainably for four hundred years.”

sustainably is a manner.

Where it comes from

From sustainable + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

sustainably in the wild

The food is generally made of unique seasonal ingredients, often locally and sustainably sourced.
Fine dining
Faith in Place has established cooperative fair trade markets, and, for a time, the Eco-Halal cooperative for "Muslim consumers to purchase sustainably raised lamb, chicken, and beef".
Faith in Place
The composting of brown waste sustainably returns the carbon to the carbon cycle.
Brown waste
Individuals can also choose to live more sustainably.
Sustainability
Cole Clark uses unique construction and designs, advanced live pickup technology and have a strong focus on sustainably sourced timbers.
Cole Clark

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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