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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
backing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
backing singers (=people who sing with her)
▪ Tina Turner’s backing singers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
▪ Several new contracts are already being negotiated with Rentokil's financial backing and branch network offering further benefits to prospects.
▪ It is understood the financial backing for the plan has yet to be finalised.
▪ A private consortium has financial backing for a scheme to build an entire underground toll-road system.
▪ He had the expertise and financial backing.
▪ The Crusade received very substantial financial backing for the organization of the march from the right-wing military and political parties.
▪ And it has also provided financial backing for research into alternatives to the use of animals.
▪ But Hafodunos said they were ending negotiations with Watertight, who they said had failed to provide evidence of sufficient financial backing.
▪ Mr Venables said he had full but anonymous financial backing.
full
▪ Mr Mackie, who has the full backing of his firm, is pleading not guilty to the charge.
▪ The teachers have given the parents their full backing.
▪ We met them face to face and he gave his full backing.
▪ Val's scheme has got the full backing of police in Gloucestershire and West Mercia.
▪ The championships have the full backing of Durham County Cricket Club.
▪ For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church.
▪ Thousands of people across the country have signed the plea which has the full backing of the Opposition.
royal
▪ When they could no longer claim to act with royal backing they were dangerously vulnerable.
▪ It was this royal backing which turned Gloucester's territorial influence into a regional hegemony.
▪ The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected, rather than negated, the king's authority.
strong
▪ During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain.
▪ The regime was given strong backing by the Soviet Union but failed to gain widespread popular support.
▪ They again offered strong economic backing for reforms.
■ NOUN
singer
▪ She has already established herself as a backing singer specialising in jazz and stands to win professional recording sessions.
▪ As well as the choirs, the following also appeared in the cast: Pharaoh's backing singers.
▪ Having come from backing singer to lead, Sam is now enjoying well deserved success with the title song Stop.
vocal
▪ And she was even doing some of the backing vocals.
▪ There are verses and choruses and chick backing vocals and a big Chris Hughes production to give it that radio-friendly oomph.
■ VERB
get
▪ Although, the idea doesn't get whole-hearted backing from Grendon's Governor.
▪ And she's got the backing of the police.
▪ So one would image that the latest new fangled marketing initiative at Vaux-owned Swallow Hotel in Gateshead gets his backing.
▪ Val's scheme has got the full backing of police in Gloucestershire and West Mercia.
▪ But that isn't the reason for these kids not getting backing.
▪ Controls on straw burning get the full backing of the law this season - here's what to do.
▪ Today they got full backing from the visiting Prison's Minister.
give
▪ Representatives of interested local authorities have already met with transport under-secretary Patrick McLaughlin, who has given the scheme his backing.
▪ We met them face to face and he gave his full backing.
▪ I gave up backing horses years ago.
▪ The regime was given strong backing by the Soviet Union but failed to gain widespread popular support.
▪ More than 400 competitors in all, from the age of 5 upwards, gave their backing to the championships.
▪ For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church.
▪ At last, Ford and Jaguar bosses have given their backing to a spiritual successor to the E-type.
▪ Although the turnout was only 43 percent, 99 percent of votes cast gave backing to the Constitution.
need
▪ They desperately need backing just to continue the work everyone agrees should be expanded.
▪ The National Parks need backing, so do the greenbelts and the remaining countryside.
▪ I don't think you need all these backing tapes and samples.
provide
▪ The questions arise: Does the same experiment provide equally good backing for any other theory?
▪ They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following: s fly.
▪ We can imagine forms of social life which don't provide the necessary backing for sorrow and affection.
▪ And it has also provided financial backing for research into alternatives to the use of animals.
▪ A tight hypnotic beat provides the perfect backing.
receive
▪ The Crusade received very substantial financial backing for the organization of the march from the right-wing military and political parties.
▪ Grant, who receives some backing from Hogan clubs, relies heavily on support from his wife Linda.
▪ In four rounds of voting on July 24 and 26 none received the necessary backing of two-thirds of the 400 deputies.
▪ It received backing from venture capital firm 3i.
secure
▪ Walesa had secured the backing of virtually all of the country's political and social organizations, including the Catholic Church.
win
▪ The National Union of Teachers has launched a multi-million pound advertising campaign to win public backing for greater investment in education.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chairman Robert Eaton said he has the backing of the vast majority of the company's major shareholders.
▪ Does this policy have government backing?
▪ The company failed to get sufficient financial backing, and never got off the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dense pile wears better than a loosely-woven one, which can be parted to reveal the backing.
▪ But it was done now, there was no way of backing out.
▪ The grasses are woven together with cotton to form a mat, which is then bonded on to a paper backing.
▪ There was also a sanitary argument which seemed to have scientific backing, even if evidence was lacking.
▪ They're looking to entrepreneurs like David Puttnam and Richard Branson for the vital backing to develop the project.
▪ They desperately need backing just to continue the work everyone agrees should be expanded.
▪ This time the spelling changes had the backing of the government as well as of the Academy.
▪ We then measure the complexity of each description, and choose the one with adequate experimental backing and the simplest description.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backing

Back \Back\ (b[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Backed (b[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Backing.]

  1. To get upon the back of; to mount.

    I will back him [a horse] straight.
    --Shak.

  2. To place or seat upon the back. [R.]

    Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed, Appeared to me.
    --Shak.

  3. To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.

  4. To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.

  5. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.

    A garden . . . with a vineyard backed.
    --Shak.

    The chalk cliffs which back the beach.
    --Huxley.

  6. To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.

  7. To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. ``The Parliament would be backed by the people.''
    --Macaulay.

    Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments.
    --South.

    The mate backed the captain manfully.
    --Blackw. Mag.

  8. To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.

    To back an anchor (Naut.), to lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one.

    To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated ``the field'', will win.

    To back the oars, to row backward with the oars.

    To back a rope, to put on a preventer.

    To back the sails, to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern.

    To back up, to support; to sustain; as, to back up one's friends.

    To back a warrant (Law), is for a justice of the peace, in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender.

    To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or propeller, so as to force the boat or ship backward.

Backing

Backing \Back"ing\, n.

  1. The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

  2. That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.

  3. Support or aid given to a person or cause.

  4. (Bookbinding) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
backing

1590s, "support;" 1640s, "retreat;" verbal noun from back (v.). Physical sense of "anything forming a backing to something else" is from 1793. Meaning "musical accompaniment" is recorded from 1940.

Wiktionary
backing

  1. (context music English) That which provides support for the main performer n. 1 support, especially financial. 2 A liner or other material added behind or underneath. 3 (context music English) musician and vocalists who support the main performer v

  2. (present participle of back English)

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WordNet
backing

  1. n. the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives" [syn: backup, championship, patronage]

  2. something forming a back that is added for strengthening [syn: mount]

  3. financial resources provided to make some project possible; "the foundation provided support for the experiment" [syn: support, financial support, funding, financial backing]

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Usage examples of "backing".

Backing away quietly, so Amparo would not hear her, Megan turned and ran out the back door.

They swung her round, backing water frantically, and let the currents and tides bob her closer and closer Enj called something out in Dwarvish, slung his pack on board, and jumped down after it before the anchorman could throw him the rope.

And there was no sight in twenty-first century Africa like the two ankylosaurs who now began to mate, backing their rear ends together with the most exquisite care.

When he looked around Apolline was backing away from him, only her powdered face visible.

The heavy arhythmia of her breathing mixed with the low sounds of his sure motions as he lit the candle beside her bed and then lit the wall sconces with their brilliant mirror backing.

Now Barnett realized that there was no longer any way to prevent or delay the inevitable: James Meredith was coming into the university with the might of the federal government backing him up.

Backing over and over, the Argives gave ground, seeing the lord of battles lead the Trojan onset.

I have extracted from the seamless web of the life of my chicks, pecking or avoiding beads, shaking their heads or backing away, peeping and twittering, are abstract generalizations that I have drawn from many hundreds of thousands of individual acts by individual birds that I have observed.

The windows on the other side of the shanty enabled him to see that there were two rows of berths, each backing against the other.

Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.

Lordsmen to back up the ceboid officers who in turn were backing the whipping neuters.

Months into the battles over the co-generation deals, Fastow showed no sign of backing off.

And in our Island here, I have five hundred thousand million separate power plants, each generating at the rate of decillions of ergs a second, backing this ship.

Without official backing, he had come to realize, no one got anywhere with Nazi files in Germany.

To his right he saw Jak holding Emma by one hand, a short-bladed throwing knife in the other, backing away in front of a stout ghoulie armed with a cleaver tied to a broomstick.