-backedsuffix
uk/ -bækt/us/ -bækt/-backed suffix (SUPPORTED)
used to form adjectives that describe who is providing support, especially financial support:
government-backed contracts
US-backed intervention
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Backing, supporting & defending
- argumentation
- bale
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- collective security
- countenance
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- speak
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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-backed suffix (BACK PART)
used to form adjectives that describe what substance or material is at the back of something, or what the back of something is like:
foam-backed carpet
high-backed dining chairs
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Surfaces of objects
- back
- base
- bed
- crust
- face
- facet
- flange
- fore
- front
- nap
- plate
- rear
- reverse
- side
- superficialis
- surface
- surface area
- underneath
- underside
- ventral
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