backbone
Example Sentences
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While specialist science and engineering roles form the backbone, around 70% of the jobs are the operational roles required to keep the stations functioning.
From BBC
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
