backing
Americannoun
-
backings
plural
-
aid or support of any kind.
- Synonyms:
- encouragement, patronage, sanction, sponsorship, endorsement, assistance, help
-
supporters or backers collectively.
-
something that forms the back or is placed at or attached to the back of anything to support, strengthen, or protect it.
-
Theater. a curtain or flat placed behind a window, entrance, or other opening in a stage set to conceal the offstage area.
-
material for backing a joist or rafter.
-
a bevel given to the outer and upper edge of a hip rafter.
-
the musical accompaniment for a soloist; backup.
noun
-
support given to a person, cause, or enterprise
-
a body of supporters
-
something that forms, protects, supports, or strengthens the back of something
-
theatre a scenic cloth or flat placed behind a window, door, etc, in a set to mask the offstage space
-
musical accompaniment, esp for a pop singer
-
the support in gold or precious metals for a country's issue of money in notes
-
meteorol an anticlockwise change in wind direction
-
a passageway running behind a row of terraced houses
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of backing
Vocabulary lists containing backing
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Moscow issued a similar warning in May but heads of state and governments from countries backing Ukraine have defied it by travelling to the war-torn country and the capital in show of support.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Even so, institutions are backing away after they, too, needed liquidity these funds don’t provide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Lewis Hamilton has declared Frederic Vasseur as "the guy to lead us" two days after Ferrari made an unusual public statement backing their team principal after speculation over this position.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The California Democratic Party is backing Ma, whose quarter-century in electoral politics includes stints on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in the State Assembly and on the State Board of Equalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The room was but small, and the clients seemed to have had a habit of backing up against the wall; the wall, especially opposite to Mr. Jaggers’s chair, being greasy with shoulders.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The only thing he requests is a tin of 112 players with adhesive backings.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
At that point, bank targets may be persuaded to do deals not because they need the liquidity, but to show they have the backings of large institutional investors.
From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2023
Dennis Reed, a proprietor of Hi-Tek Redneck Karaoke & DJ Service, served as the M.C. while overseeing the sound system and musical backings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Ms. Kokoszka described the members as having “unselfishly donated their time, talents, fabrics, battings, backings, bindings and labels for the making of the quilts each of our honored guests will receive tonight.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
