Backing
Definition of backing:
part of speech: noun
Something placed behind to support or strengthen; aid or support given to a person or cause.
Usage examples for backing:
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Curious, isn't it, that we should make friends while I was backing the President and you the rebels!
"The Coast of Adventure", Harold Bindloss. -
Probably he had already this plan in his head when he sent his treatise On the Beautiful to Hierius, orator to the City of Rome; he thought that by this politeness he might depend, later, on the backing of the well- known rhetorician.
"Saint Augustin", Louis Bertrand. -
" Very well, Captain, just to humor you," said the landlord, backing himself out with his head in his chest.
"Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon 1893", Hall Caine. -
Without the Society's backing the women could never have had their case put before the public as it was.
"The Trade Union Woman", Alice Henry.