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:

• 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.