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

• 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。
• Samsung, another top-tier Olympic backer, said it was proud six of its sponsored athletes would carry the revered symbol through the crowded streets of India's capital city.
  另一家顶级奥运赞助商三星（Samsung）也表示，6名由其提供赞助的运动员将手持令人崇敬的象征，穿越印度首都拥挤的街道，该公司为此感到骄傲。
• Giorgio Napolitano, the Italian president and a strong Monti backer, said that political support for his technocratic government was slipping – an implicit warning to European leaders that Mr Monti needed to return from Brussels with assistance.
  蒙蒂的坚定支持者、意大利总统乔治纳波利塔诺（GiorgioNapolitano）表示，蒙蒂技术官僚政府获得的政治支持日益下降&这是在含蓄警告欧洲领导人：蒙蒂需要带着援助从布鲁塞尔回来。
• At the time, Canada was a strong backer of hydroelectric power, which had played a key role in the country's early industrialization.
  当时加拿大对水电推崇备至，因为水电在该国早期工业化进程中发挥了重要作用。
• From then on, without backer, the cirrus had to creep on ground and struggle for life.
  从此，藤蔓再无依恃，只能匍匐在地上苦苦挣扎求生。
• Each stack of sheets is combined with a backer sheet of chipboard or heavy paper.
  每个表的堆栈是结合靠山表的硬纸板或重磅纸。
• Angel investor a financial backer providing venture capital funds for small startups or entrepreneurs.
  天使投资者向小型初始企业或创业者提供创业资金的财务投资者。
• 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。
• The key differences so far though seem to be funding ( the billionaire Koch brothers are a key backer of the Tea Party) and a more coherent set of concerns and issues.
  到目前为止，两者的主要区别似乎在于资金（亿万富豪科赫兄弟是茶党的重要支持者）和更为明确和统一的诉求。
• 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。