What is another word for backers?

Pronunciation: [bˈakəz] (IPA)

Backers refer to individuals, organizations, or groups that provide financial or other support to a project or an individual. Synonyms for backers include supporters, sponsors, financiers, investors, patrons, benefactors, advocates, champions, well-wishers, and allies. These synonyms reflect the different nuances and forms of support that backers can provide. For instance, sponsors and financiers usually provide financial support, while advocates and champions provide moral support and endorse a project or individual. Regardless of the type of support received, backers play a crucial role in helping projects and individuals achieve success, and the various synonyms for this term highlight their importance in different contexts.

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Usage examples for Backers

Swallow's backers began to blanch.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
Not one of these would print articles proving that the supplies advertised by their backers were inimical to dental hygiene.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
When McDuffie told him that the remembrance of his attitude on the bill would, to his harm, meet him on some future day, like the ghost that appeared to Brutus at Philippi, he answered:- I can promise the ghost and his backers that if the fight goes against me at this new Philippi, with which I am threatened, and the enemies of the American Union triumph over me as the enemies of Roman liberty triumphed over Brutus and Cassius, I shall not fall upon my sword, as Brutus did, though Cassius be killed, and run it through my own body; but I shall save it and save myself for another day and another use,-for the day when the battle of the disunion of these states is to be fought, not with words but with iron, and for the hearts of the traitors who appear in arms against their country.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt

Famous quotes with Backers

  • The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.
    Amanullah Khan
  • The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.
    Mike Leigh
  • I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
    Tom Paulin
  • It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
    Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
  • Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
    Eric Hoffer

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