backer

英 [ˈbækə(r)]

美 [ˈbækər]

n.  支持者; 资助者; 赞助人

复数：backers　

经济

Collins.1 / BNC.12387 / COCA.9207

牛津词典

noun

• 支持者；资助者；赞助人
  a person or company that gives support to sb/sth, especially financial support

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 支持者；资助者
  Abackeris someone who helps or supports a project, organization, or person, often by giving or lending money.
  1. I was looking for a backer to assist me in the attempted buy-out.
     我正在寻找一位支持我收购的出资人。

英英释义

noun

• invests in a theatrical production
  Synonym:angel

双语例句

• China's tough stance against Japan in an ongoing territorial dispute may have no bigger backer than Yao Xin, a 23-year-old legal assistant who says she refuses to buy Japanese products.
  对于中国在中日领土争端问题上对日本采取的强硬立场，现年23岁的法律助理姚欣（音）可以算是最大的支持者。姚欣说她拒绝购买日本产品。
• Because I know that while I am establishing my career, you will always stand behind me as my backer, freeing me from extra worries.
  因为我知道当我闯事业的时候，你会站在我的背后做我坚强的后盾，免除我的后顾之忧。
• He says he could be our backer.
  他说那人可能是幕后资助人。
• So we can't trace it to the backer.
  也就是说我们不能找到后台。
• A few years ago my husband invited his business backer to dinner.
  几年前，我丈夫邀请了他的业务赞助者用晚餐。
• The backer managed to gather a small group of curious passersby round the platform.
  那人大喊大叫，设法把一小群好奇的过路人聚集在戏台周围。
• The union is the financial and logistical backer for Fast Food Forward, the group organizing the protests.
  该联盟向组织抗议的快餐前进（FastFoodForward）运动提供财政和物资援助。
• And not only that nor does its backer, the United States that gets into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan just over nothing.
  它的支持者美国也是如此，美国平白无故地就在和阿富汗发动了战争。
• Tom is my principal backer; if he withdraws his support, I don't see how I can be elected.
  汤姆是我主要的支持者，如果他撤销了他的援助，我不知我如何才能被选上。
• He threw a rolling block into the line backer.
  它扔了一个转的石块进后防线。