Backer Definition

băkər
backers
noun
backers
One that backs a person, group, or enterprise.
Financial backers of a ballet company.
American Heritage
A person who supports or gives help, as to a protégé or undertaking; patron; sponsor.
Webster's New World
One who bets on a contestant.
American Heritage
A person who bets on a contestant.
Webster's New World
One who provides or works with backs or backing.
American Heritage
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adjective

(phonetics) Comparative form of back: more back.

Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders, p. 174:/eɪ/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /ɪ/.
Wiktionary
pronoun

A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Cornelis Andries Backer (1874-1963).

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Backer

Noun

Singular:
backer
Plural:
backers

Origin of Backer

  • back +‎ -er

    From Wiktionary

Backer Sentence Examples

  • Shia Islamist parties would be deprived of their backer.

  • An admirable biography is to be found in Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867); and a complete list of his works in De Backer's Bibliotheque de la compagnie de Jesus.

  • The cap stones should always be brought to the most accurate bed possible, with grouting used as a thin cement and not as a backer.

  • Scottish Screen had already become the film's major backer with £ 500,000 of lottery cash.

  • In this case, too, the Iraqi Shia Islamist parties would be deprived of their backer.

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