The meaning of MAINSTAY is a crucial or key part of something. How to use mainstay in a sentence.

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MAINSTAY definition: 1. the most important part of something, providing support for everything else: 2. the most…. Learn more.

If you describe something as the mainstay of a particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it. Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet.

MAINSTAY definition: the stay that secures the mainmast forward. See examples of mainstay used in a sentence.

Definition of mainstay noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.