backing

Support, especially financial.

Adjective

  1. Providing support for the main performer.

Origin

Etymology tree English back English -ing English backing From back + -ing.

Derived

backing band backing track

Noun

  1. Support, especially financial.
    • It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.
  2. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
    • The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.
    • An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets. - 1957 August 5, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station,...
    • In general, the locomotives are painted dark green; the numberplates are brass, with a red backing, and are usually carried on the tank side. - 1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains...
  3. A backdrop.
    • The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside. - 2013, Gerald Millerson, TV Scenic Design, page 134:
  4. Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
  5. The mounting of a horse or other animal.
  6. The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.

Forms

backings

Derived

linebacking sealant backing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of back