BACKER (backer)

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Irregular inflected form: backer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does backer mean? 

• BACKER (noun)
  The noun BACKER has 1 sense:

1. invests in a theatrical production

  Familiarity information: BACKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Invests in a theatrical production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

angel; backer

Hypernyms ("backer" is a kind of...):

patron; sponsor; supporter (someone who supports or champions something)

Derivation:

back (support financial backing for)

 Context examples 

It was curious to see the intense gravity of them all, fighters and backers, as they bent their brows and weighed the conditions of the match.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The backers of Cherokee waxed jubilant and offered ridiculous odds.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Traddles is not at all wanted, but is in attendance as my general backer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a hurried consultation between the principals, the backers, the referee, and the timekeeper.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

White Fang's backers were correspondingly depressed, and refused bets of ten to one and twenty to one, though one man was rash enough to close a wager of fifty to one.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Go in, then! Go in!” whooped the two prize-fighters, while every backer in the crowd took up the roar.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It should be easy, now that backers and fighting men are gathered together under one roof, to come to terms with each other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In those days poor Avon and I were his principal backers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, although my uncle had not yet named his man, there was no doubt amongst the public that Jim was to be his nominee, and the report of his physique and of his performance found him many backers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The inner was for the combatants and for their seconds, while in the outer there were places for the referee, the timekeeper, the backers, and a few select and fortunate individuals, of whom, through being in my uncle’s company, I was one.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)