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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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？
• 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 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。