SUPPORT


Meaning of SUPPORT in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

If you ~ someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed.

The vice president insisted that he ~ed the hard-working people of New York...

The National Union of Mineworkers pressed the party to ~ a total ban on imported coal.

= back

? oppose

VERB: V n, V n

Support is also a noun.

The prime minister gave his full ~ to the government’s reforms...

N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp

2.

If you give ~ to someone during a difficult or unhappy time, you are kind to them and help them.

It was hard to come to terms with her death after all the ~ she gave to me and the family...

N-UNCOUNT

3.

Financial ~ is money provided to enable an organization to continue. This money is usually provided by the government.

...the government’s proposal to cut agricultural ~ by only about 15%.

= funding

N-UNCOUNT: oft supp N

4.

If you ~ someone, you provide them with money or the things that they need.

I have children to ~, money to be earned, and a home to be maintained...

She sold everything she’d ever bought in order to ~ herself through art school.

VERB: V n, V pron-refl

5.

If a fact ~s a statement or a theory, it helps to show that it is true or correct.

The Freudian theory about daughters falling in love with their father has little evidence to ~ it.

= substantiate

VERB: V n

Support is also a noun.

The two largest powers in any system must always be major rivals. History offers some ~ for this view.

= evidence

N-UNCOUNT

6.

If something ~s an object, it is underneath the object and holding it up.

...the thick wooden posts that ~ed the ceiling...

= hold up

VERB: V n

7.

A ~ is a bar or other object that ~s something.

N-COUNT

8.

If you ~ yourself, you prevent yourself from falling by holding onto something or by leaning on something.

He ~ed himself by means of a nearby post.

VERB: V pron-refl

Support is also a noun.

Alice, very pale, was leaning against him as if for ~.

N-UNCOUNT

9.

If you ~ a sports team, you always want them to win and perhaps go regularly to their games.

Tim, 17, ~s Manchester United.

VERB: V n

10.

see also ~ing

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