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

• "We have great expectations," said backer Kevin Christie.
  赞助人凯文·克里斯蒂说：我们对这个项目抱有很高的期望。
• Have you got any comments on the proposed promotion of Tom backer?
  你以提议给汤姆贝克升职有什么评价？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• So we can't trace it to the backer.
  也就是说我们不能找到后台。
• 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。
• I was hoping for a backer, but the project was too chancy.
  我希望有支持者，但这项目风险太大。
• 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。
• 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。