Sustainable development is the concept of the current generation utilizing the environment and meet human demands while not harming the ability of future generations to satisfy their own demands and interests.
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Sustainable
//səˈsteɪnəbəl//
Synonyms for "sustainable" (6 found)
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Related words (3)
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3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
68 translations across 29 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- sostenible adj (able to be sustained)
- sostenible adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 可持續的 /可持续的 adj (able to be sustained)
- 可持續的 /可持续的 adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Czech
1 entries- udržitelný adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Danish
3 entries- bæredygtig adj (able to be sustained)
- bæredygtig adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- holdbar adj (able to be sustained)
Dutch
3 entries- duurzaam adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- verantwoord adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- verantwoord adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Esperanto
2 entries- daŭrebla adj (able to be sustained)
- daŭripova adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Estonian
4 entries- jätkusuutlik adj (able to be sustained)
- jätkusuutlik adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- kestlik adj (able to be sustained)
- kestlik adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Finnish
3 entries- kestävä adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- pysyvä adj (able to be sustained)
- ympäristöä säästävä adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
French
2 entries- durable adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- viable adj (able to be sustained)
Galician
2 entries- sustentábel adj (able to be sustained)
- sustentábel adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Georgian
2 entries- მდგრადი adj (able to be sustained)
- მდგრადი adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
German
4 entries- aufrechterhaltbar adj (able to be sustained)
- aufrechtzuerhalten adj (able to be sustained)
- nachhaltig adj (able to be sustained)
- nachhaltig adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Hebrew
1 entries- בר־קיימא adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Hungarian
1 entries- fenntartható adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Indonesian
1 entries- berkelanjutan adj (able to be sustained)
Italian
2 entries- sostenibile adj (able to be sustained)
- sostenibile adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Japanese
2 entries- 持続可能 adj (able to be sustained)
- 持続可能 adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Latvian
2 entries- ilgtspējīgs adj (able to be sustained)
- ilgtspējīgs adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Malay
4 entries- lestari adj (able to be sustained)
- lestari adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- mampan adj (able to be sustained)
- mampan adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Māori
2 entries- toitū adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- whakauka adj (able to be sustained)
Norwegian
2 entries- bærekraftig adj (able to be sustained)
- bærekraftig adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Polish
4 entries- możliwy do utrzymania adj (able to be sustained)
- możliwy do utrzymania adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- podtrzymywalny adj (able to be sustained)
- podtrzymywalny adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Portuguese
2 entries- sustentável adj (able to be sustained)
- sustentável adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Russian
4 entries- возобновля́емый adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- жизнеспособный adj (able to be sustained)
- усто́йчивый adj (able to be sustained)
- усто́йчивый adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Spanish
4 entries- sostenible adj (able to be sustained)
- sostenible adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
- sustentable adj (able to be sustained)
- sustentable adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Swahili
1 entries- endelevu adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Swedish
2 entries- hållbar adj (able to be sustained)
- hållbar adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Tagalog
1 entries- likas-kaya adj (able to be sustained: environmental term)
Turkish
1 entries- surdurulebilir adj (able to be sustained)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
I like recycling the wall. I do sustainable translation.
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I mainly participated in the working group "environmental protection and sustainable agriculture".
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Sarkozy defended a model of sustainable growth.
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