backstop
Example Sentences
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In the traditional model, developers and external investors—often infrastructure funds and banks—took on the risk of developing and constructing the project, with financing backstopped by the creditworthy tech company’s power purchase agreement.
That’s why “if regional logistics and shipping lanes are impaired, that spare capacity becomes harder to deliver quickly and it doesn’t function like a clean backstop when the bottleneck is transport, not production,” he added.
From MarketWatch
That’s why “if regional logistics and shipping lanes are impaired, that spare capacity becomes harder to deliver quickly and it doesn’t function like a clean backstop when the bottleneck is transport, not production,” he added.
From MarketWatch
European officials have said they hope the White House will in coming days publicly commit to a U.S. backstop role.
But if I was going to personalize nature, I thought it would be prudent to backstop my feelings with expertise.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
