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backbone

[bak-bohn] / ˈbækˌboʊn /


NOUN
spinal column of vertebrate
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A job posting on its website revealed the mobile ad tech company is hiring a software engineer to design and build the “digital backbone of our next-generation social platform.”

From Barron's

A job posting on its website revealed the mobile ad tech company is hiring a software engineer to design and build the “digital backbone of our next-generation social platform.”

From Barron's

In mature markets, everyday individual giving is the financial backbone of NGOs - formal, tracked and institutionalised.

From BBC

As the traditional cradle of Chinese heavy industry, the region provides the industrial backbone for advanced naval and aerospace production.

From The Wall Street Journal

Small businesses constitute the backbone of the U.S. economy.

From MarketWatch