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

• 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。
• 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？
• Is Mozilla in danger of losing their biggest financial backer?
  Mozilla是否处于失去最大的财力支持者的危险之中？
• He says he could be our backer.
  他说那人可能是幕后资助人。
• Because I'm not you boyfriend, Just I Backer for you happy and lose.
  因为不是你的男朋友，我才会在你高兴难过得意失落的时候都支持你。
• 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。
• So we can't trace it to the backer.
  也就是说我们不能找到后台。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。