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is backstopping
noun
A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
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The Treasury is backstopping their capital and the Fed is helping them refinance their debts by buying up to $200 billion of their bonds in the open market.
"What's fascinating is — to finance these wind projects, it's hundreds of millions of dollars," Mr. Bowman said, "and what is backstopping that entire investment is somebody saying, this wind project is going to produce this amount of energy each year for the next 20 years.
But even the white supremacists whose favored social network Monster is backstopping don't buy everything he's saying to defend Gab.
Some E.C.B. stakeholders, notably in Germany, are worried about potential conflicts of interest if the central bank stays in the troika while it is backstopping euro zone government debt through its bond-buying program and about to take over supervision of banks that lend to troubled sovereigns.
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Even eBay's recent Bill Me Later feature is backstopped with its overseas cash, Mr. Gillis said.
*Each end zone is backstopped by nets that are 30 feet wide and 32 feet high.
The political turmoil in Romania has weighed on its battered economy, which is backstopped by a standby loan of €5 billion, or $6 billion, from the International Monetary Fund.
The Japanese insurers jointly own a reinsurer, the Japan Earthquake Reinsurance Company, which in turn is backstopped by the Japanese government.
A piece on the island of Tahiti — complete with a roundup of beautiful, and highly clothed, Tahitian women — is backstopped, inevitably, by one on fireflies, seen close up and glowing.
It is backstopped in this promise by its own self-insurance.
"The Chinese leadership is trying to break down this misunderstanding that everything is backstopped".
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