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backingnoun an act or instance of helpingthe teacher's backing on the science project was invaluable abetment, aid, assist, assistance, boost, hand, help, helping hand, leg up, lift, support advancement, encouragement, facilitation, forwarding, furtherance, furthering, nurturancebenefaction, patronage, promotion, sponsorshipadvice, care, counsel, guidance, mentoringattendance, attention, hand-holding, servicebeneficence, charity, favor, kindness, philanthropyassuagement, palliation, relief, succor hindrance constraint, frustration, inhibition, interference, obstruction, repression, restraintdeterrence, discouragement the financial support and general guidance for an undertakingthe museum exhibition would not have been possible without corporate backing aegis(also egis), auspice, patronage, sponsorship bankrolling, endowment, financing, funding, subsidyencouragement, fosterageaid, assistance, help backingverbpresent participle of backto promote the interests or cause ofshe enthusiastically backed the plan to renovate and upgrade the school's facilities advocating, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), patronizing, plumping (for), plunking (for)or plonking (for), supporting adopting, embracing, espousingabetting, aiding, assisting, helping, propping (up), seconding, siding (with)backstopping, bolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing(also reenforcing)advancing, forwarding, furtheringplugging, preaching, talking upbailing out, delivering, rescuing, saving going in for, going to bat for, holding a brief for, standing up for, sticking up for baffling, foiling, frustrating, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwartingdeserting, disappointing, failing, letting down to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an enda number of influential people have already agreed to back the candidate abetting, aiding, assisting, backstopping, helping, propping (up), supporting advancing, easing, facilitating, forwarding, fostering, furthering, launchingchampioning, endorsing(also indorsing), patronizing, promoting, sponsoringattending, caring (for), comforting, ministering (to), succoringsustainingbolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing(also reenforcing)advising, counseling(or counselling), guiding, mentoring, nurturingbailing out, delivering, rescuing, savingemboldening, encouraging, hearteningbenefiting(also benefitting), favoring, obliging, profiting, serving bearing a hand, standing one in good stead hindering balking, barring, blocking, constraining, hampering, handicapping, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, obstructing, restraining, stranglingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, inconveniencing, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwartingdeserting, disappointing, failing, letting downdiscouraging, dishearteningrepressing, retarding, stifling, straitening, stuntingdamaging, harming, hurting, injuring to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)the author needs to back her thesis with more facts bolstering, buttressing, corroborating, reinforcing(also reenforcing), shoring (up), substantiating, supporting confirming, establishing, proving, verifyingaffirming, avouching, validating undercutting, undermining, weakening in 1745 |