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| Main Entry: |
auspices
 [aw-speks] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection; support |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, authority, backing, care, charge, control, countenance, guidance, influence, patronage, sponsorship, supervision |
| Main Entry: | auspice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, foreshadowing, harbinger, portent, prognostication, sign, warning |
| Main Entry: | auspice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | patronage |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, auspices, backing, guidance, patronization, protection, sponsorship, support |
Example Sentences
- The diving that occurs under Smithsonian auspices is called scientific diving.
- Many of the future technologies discussed are being developed under the auspices of legitimate programs with beneficial outputs.
- She works under his auspices.
| Main Entry: | aegis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
| Synonyms: | auspices, backing, patronage, shelter, sponsorship, wing* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | auspice, boding, forerunner, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, portent, precursor, presage, prognostication, promise, prophecy, sign, token, warning |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill |
| Main Entry: | backing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | abetment, accompaniment, adherence, advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, championing, championship, encouragement, endorsement, funds, grant, help, patronage, reinforcement, sanction, secondment, sponsorship, subsidy |
| Antonyms: | disfavor, opposition |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody of person, usually child |
| Synonyms: | administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, ministration, protection, safekeeping, superintendence, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, wardship |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
| Synonyms: | aegis, auspices, care, conservation, custodianship, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, ward, wardship, watch |
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