1 a person who gives support to someone or something with money or words:
We'll need financial backers to do this.
2 a person or company that provides support for something or someone, especially financial support:
Since the concessions to corporate backers were minimal, sponsorship effectively became free money for the promoters as well as for the bands.
These candidates and their associational backers converged on similar critiques of state policies; prominent among these was the handling of the debt crisis.
He did so by condemning their backers as 'presbyterians ' and explicitly aligning them with these authors.
The fire that rid the opera's backers of this albatross was, we might say, remarkably convenient for them.
Some money may come from legitimate business activities or private savings, or from constituency backers.
Here the attempt to convert backers of the opposition party through a strategy of incorporation bore fruit.
The motives of his backers were hardly more edifying, moved as they evidently were by a mixture of political ambition and cupidity.
However, theoretical and empirical analysis of the capacity of community organisations (and hence of donor, microfinance and private sector backers) to respond to this challenge is lacking.
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