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Backing

noun

1.

The act of providing approval and support. Synonyms: backup, championship, patronage.

2.

Something forming a back that is added for strengthening. Synonym: mount.

3.

Financial resources provided to make some project possible. Synonyms: financial backing, financial support, funding, support.

Back

verb

(past & past part. backed; pres. part. backing)

1.

Be behind; approve of. Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support. "I backed Kennedy in 1960"

2.

Travel backward. "The car backed up and hit the tree"

3.

Give support or one's approval to. Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second. "I can't back this plan" , "Endorse a new project"

4.

Cause to travel backward. Antonym: advance.

5.

Support financial backing for.

6.

Be in back of. Antonym: front.

7.

Place a bet on. Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake. "I'm betting on the new horse"

8.

Shift to a counterclockwise direction. Antonym: veer.

9.

Establish as valid or genuine. Synonym: back up.

10.

Strengthen by providing with a back or backing.

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"Backing" Quotes from Famous Books

... annoyance had been brief; but he had stipulated that favours should not be compulsory. If they were, he for one would 'scratch.' This time he had a larger backing; and, amid a good deal of chaff and laughter, ...

— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver

... would be to furnish me with a moderate military force. With this I would march to Canossa; there I would espouse Adelheid; then I would proceed to Ivrea, would dethrone the wicked Berengar, would proclaim Adelheid queen in his place, with myself as king consort; then, with the assistance and backing of the imperial German, I would no doubt soon be able to maintain my royal pretensions. Once self-supporting, and relying upon our Italian subjects for our army and finances, I would boldly re-establish ...

— The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander • Frank R. Stockton

... embodying his conception of the true relations of the British nations to one another. There was nothing to do but to block all suggestions of organic change designed to strengthen the centralizing of power and to await the development of a national spirit in Canada to the point where it would afford backing for a movement in the opposite direction. So Laurier had to look pleasant and keep on saying no. To Mr. Chamberlain's proposal in 1897 "to create a great council of the Empire," No. To the proposal made at the same time for a Canadian money contribution ...

— Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics • J. W. Dafoe

... Kringle!" cried Hippy, who was in the lead, as he skipped nimbly into the living-room, and set down the heavy suit case he carried with a flourish. Then backing into David Nesbit, who stood directly behind him, he said apologetically: "I beg your pardon, David, but if you will insist in taking up so much space you must expect to have your ...

— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... got five hundred dollars' worth of Russian bonds that girl Vera gave me.... But worth five million, ten million, fifty million if the Czar gets back.... I'm backing the little white father," cried Heineman. "Anyway Moki says he's alive; that Savaroffs got him locked up in a suite in the Ritz.... ...

— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos

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