0 present participle of buoy
2 to make someone feel happier or more confident about a situation:
3 to support something and make it more successful:
The staff of such places will see a slightly higher wage packet at the end of the week thus buoying up the feel-good factor.
They provide the necessary safeguards and powers for such things as dredging work, raising wrecks, buoying and lighting the harbour.
I was interested to hear what he said about buoying up the criminal justice system after the death of the 18 judges.
Its activities include the supervision of the engineering works, dredging, buoying and the marking of channels.
It is no use buoying ourselves up with the idea that we can make gestures.
There may be costs of providing common-user moorings and of dredging, lighting and buoying.
They are always buoying themselves up with the old story that the tide will turn.
I am assured by the fishermen that buoying is not the answer and that the removal of the wreck from the channel is the only solution.
