life savings vs sustentation

life savings

noun
  • A large sum of money one has saved over a considerable number of years. 

sustentation

noun
  • The scheme by which the ministers of the Free Church of Scotland are supported by voluntary contributions not local or congregational, but with a national altruism or solidarity paid into a great central fund, out of which equal stipends are paid to all alike. 

  • The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth. 

  • The act or the result of sustaining; sustainment. 

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