noun
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a person who gives financial or other support
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a person who bets on a competitor or contestant
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Etymology
Origin of backer
Example Sentences
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Gazprom publicly became the IBA’s financial backer, filling its coffers with tens of millions of dollars.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Pipeline giant Energy Transfer, whose boss is a backer of the upstart bourse, said it would move its primary listing there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“The track record of memecoins has been rocky at best, and it was not clear that this issue had either the backer or the timing to buck that trend.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Kendall had been a key backer of Democrat Andrew Jackson in the 1828 election, having defected from Henry Clay’s Whigs.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
OpenAI was founded in part because its backers, including first investor Elon Musk, feared that AI's development would end up in the hands of Google, which they believed could not be trusted with the technology.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Musk had unusual demands for Boring’s investors, which include a slew of his longtime backers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Among those she named was British billionaire Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based businessman, who is one of Reform's biggest backers.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
After more than a decade of civil war, his two main international backers, Russia and Iran, were bogged down in wars elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Sympathetic to Bobby’s plight, the committee circulated to its members a letter of protest that was ultimately sent to Icelandic Television, other media, and to the financial backers and distributors of the film.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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