(n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(2) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(3) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
(4) Economy Clegg, Alexander and Laws have been determined backers of Osborne's austerity plan and have not been derailed from that view by claims that deep public sector cuts have damaged growth.
(5) Backer's cyst, branchial cyst, lymphangioma, and abscess.
(6) We had no financial backer and were not part of an education chain or religious group.
(7) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
(8) Human Rights Watch called on the Afghan government and its international backers to do more to hold the security forces to account.
(9) The business has also attracted reputable financial backers, including three of the core supporters of Facebook — Greylock, Accel and Meritech.
(10) However, Eagle’s backers have insisted she has more signatures than the 20% of the parliamentary party needed to launch a challenge, and is in a “holding pattern”.
(11) Whether Creepy Uncle Sam and his creepier backers will succeed in bringing down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains to be seen, but the prognosis is not good.
(12) The official said the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a bloc of African countries which has been leading peace efforts between backers of the nation’s president, Salva Kiir, and rebel leader Riek Machar, had set a 17 August deadline for both sides to accept a final offer.
(13) Cimarosa's break with the rules of omertà appears to vindicate the policy of asset seizures, which have cut Messina Denaro's cash flow and forced him to squeeze his backers harder for funds.
(14) But in a veiled reference to those in the Conservative party and their backers in the rightwing press pushing for a hard Brexit, he implied that there were people in the UK who still had to catch up.
(15) EU referendum: 250 business leaders sign up as backers of Vote Leave Read more ”Remain” campaigners accused Vote Leave of changing its position on the NHS, arguing that the group’s chief executive, Matthew Elliott, had supported spending cuts, opposed ringfencing of the NHS and proposed more privatisation in the past.
(16) Attempts by backers of the rebels and the government to orchestrate a population swap have yet to succeed, but an evacuation of the wounded was agreed in late December.
(17) Warner Bros has moved to reimburse backers whose money helped get the high-profile crowdfunded movie Veronica Mars into cinemas after some were unable to satisfactorily download their promised copy of the finished feature .
(18) The revelation of the unusual last-minute attempted appointment comes as tensions between the Turnbull government and the former prime minister and his backers reach boiling point.
(19) Robert Davies, another original investor, also a financial backer of Swansea’s Ospreys rugby union region which shares the Liberty Stadium, also has a 10.5% stake.
(20) Turkey , a key backer of the opposition, called for an end to Russian airstrikes in the aftermath of the agreement in Munich.
Balker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which balks.
(n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.