sustaining program

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   a program without a commercial sponsor

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Questions about sustaining program

What does sustaining program mean?

sustaining program means "a program without a commercial sponsor".

Is sustaining program a common word?

sustaining program is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.