0 past simple and past participle of support --
1 to agree with and give encouragement to someone or something because you want him, her, or it to succeed: --
Which team do you support?
[ + obj + to infinitive ] We will always do our best to support our students to succeed.
I think it's important to support local businesses by buying locally.
The majority of people in the town strongly support the plans to build a new school.
My father supported the LabourDemocratic Party all his life.
2 to help someone emotionally or in a practical way: --
3 to give a person the money they need in order to buy food and clothes and pay for somewhere to live: --
4 to hold something firmly or carry its weight, especially from below to stop it from falling: --
figurative The Bank of England has taken measures to support the pound (= to stop it from being reduced in value).
My ankle is weak, so I always put a bandage on it to support it when I play tennis.
When babies first learn to stand, they hold on to something to support themselves (= to stop themselves from falling).
5 to help to show something to be true: --
You can't make a statement like that without any supporting documentation.
With regard to dependants, 25 (37.9%) of the women and 18 (52.9%) of the men supported their parents, usually by sending money home.
However, it was not the cost, but whether the women who had supported the court would attend that made it the talk of the town.
This view is supported by studies that are intended to show that satisfactory understanding on the part of patients cannot be achieved.
The notion of sectoral specialisation is supported by another branch of recent analysis which involves understanding differences in the characteristics of firm owners.
The patterns of those acts (patriotic, ethical, altruistic), perhaps supported during their formation by a scaffold of extrinsic reinforcement, must be highly valuable in themselves.
That is, coefficients on these two variables are expected to be positive but less than one if the hypothesis is supported.
It is unclear whether this is a statistically supported observation.
This is supported by the isolated, periclinal nature, the absence of cross-stratification or visible pinching and swelling of laminae across the waves.
