| 词汇 | backer |
| 释义 | backer noun[ C ] uk /ˈbæk.ər/ us /ˈbæk.ɚ/ someone who gives financial support to something: 资助人，赞助人 We need financial backers for the project.我们需要有人资助这项工程。 Compare angel someone who gives something giverWomen are the primary gift givers in households. donorOne anonymous donor contributed $1 million. benefactorPip is told he has a mysterious benefactor and is going to be very well off. philanthropistThe philanthropist has given a large chunk of his fortune to good causes. sponsorLondon Fashion Week is funded by corporate sponsors. backerThey were lucky to find two wealthy backers. Investing money bet bet big on something/someoneidiom capitalize co-investor deposit of something discretionary divestiture divestment endow investor landbanker mature microfinance pay something in pension plan plough plough into something/someone pump speculate speculator backer | American Dictionarybacker noun[ C ] us/ˈbæk·ər/ a person who gives support to someone or something with money or words: We'll need financial backers to do this. backer | Business Englishbacker noun[ C ] uk /ˈbækər/us FINANCE a person or company that provides support for something or someone, especially financial support: The project's backers believe that fund-raising should not be a problem. The club was desperately seeking new financial backers. Examples of backerbacker Since the concessions to corporate backers were minimal, sponsorship effectively became free money for the promoters as well as for the bands. These candidates and their associational backers converged on similar critiques of state policies; prominent among these was the handling of the debt crisis. He did so by condemning their backers as 'presbyterians ' and explicitly aligning them with these authors. The fire that rid the opera's backers of this albatross was, we might say, remarkably convenient for them. Some money may come from legitimate business activities or private savings, or from constituency backers. Here the attempt to convert backers of the opposition party through a strategy of incorporation bore fruit. The motives of his backers were hardly more edifying, moved as they evidently were by a mixture of political ambition and cupidity. However, theoretical and empirical analysis of the capacity of community organisations (and hence of donor, microfinance and private sector backers) to respond to this challenge is lacking. More probably, it represents a scaled-back plan developed after the scheme's backers had done some hard thinking about the 'estimate' of £150,000. Bishops, bookmakers, backers, and newspapers all buzz most terribly, and sometimes disconcertingly in unison, when the words "betting legislation" are mentioned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It offers exceptional opportunities for profit to the promoters, and there are exceptional lures for the backer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There have been the owners, breeders and trainers, and there have been the bookmakers and the backers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Regular backers of horses prefer to bet with bookmakers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to act quickly to dispel any doubts that there may be in the minds of potential backers of local authority partnership schemes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Ownership at the end of the contract period will depend upon the arrangements made by the contractor with his financial backer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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