backstop
Example Sentences
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Treasury would backstop the peso if voters gave the coalition the support the Argentinian president needs to govern over the next two years.
Sarah Friar, the company’s chief financial officer, mused about a “backstop” from the government during an appearance at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event earlier this month — comments she later walked back on LinkedIn.
From MarketWatch
But at just 25 years old, and still relatively new to a position he started playing regularly only in college, Smith wasn’t ready to be the full-time backstop.
From Los Angeles Times
He added that putting the firm into a "special administration regime" - where it would be temporarily re-nationalised - was remained a "backstop option" and "we're still a long way from that".
From BBC
UBS executives are hoping to announce that the bank will not call on the government backstop when it publishes its second-quarter results on Aug. 31, the report added.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
