noun
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a person who gives financial or other support
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a person who bets on a competitor or contestant
Etymology
Origin of backer
Example Sentences
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“Marty Supreme” director Josh Safdie cast Catsimatidis as Christopher Galanis, a financial backer of the table tennis phenom played by Timothée Chalamet in the film.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Thrive Capital, another large OpenAI investor and loyal backer of Altman’s, is set to lead the round instead, people familiar with the deal said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
But a backer of the bill, Congresswoman Nancy Picón Martínez, said that the mining industry was being portrayed "as if it were a monster".
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
While investors’ appetite for space has grown in recent years, NASA, through its contracts, remains a major backer of everything from satellite makers to launch companies.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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