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View definitions for buoy up

buoy up

verb as in make light, encourage

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Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel’s opposition movement, said he would buoy up Netanyahu’s position, providing him a “political safety net,” if he supported a permanent cease-fire and lost Ben-Gvir’s faction as a result.

From Slate

Rare earth permanent magnet material is subject to a 13% VAT discount on export from the country, and provincial governments give support on energy costs, for example, which also helps buoy up magnet-making facilities.

From BBC

The government's need for dollars to buoy up the exchange rate and enable government largesse ahead of 2024 elections is among the motives for a crackdown on alleged corruption at state oil company PDVSA, sources told Reuters in March.

From Reuters

The flow of Russian tourists to Venezuela has been increasing since late last year, part of a government strategy to buoy up an industry battered by Venezuela's long-running economic crisis, danger from crime and cuts to public services like electricity and water.

From Reuters

He was trying to buoy up the chances of Ron DeSantis becoming governor instead of the African American Democrat, Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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