backstop
see also: Backstop
Noun
Backstop
Proper noun
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see also: Backstop
Noun
backstop (plural backstops)
- A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
- A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
- The Express, 7 June 2018
- Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, this morning, said a time-limited backstop would be unacceptable, and has previously promised to vote down the UK’s Brexit withdrawal deal unless it features a satisfactory backstop.
- The Irish Times, 17 November 2018
- "The 2½ years since have been about hammering home these points in any European capital that would listen. And in spite of capacity-sapping talks on the first point – Brexit, border and backstop – the Department of Foreign Affairs and other government departments have been working quietly to make good on the second.
- The Express, 7 June 2018
- (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
- (baseball slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
- (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
- (cricket, dated) The longstop.
- (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
- (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
- 1976, Joseph Burkholder Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior (page 116)
- […] to be set up in Indonesia with a phony book and school supplies company established in New York City as a backstop.
- 1990, Bruce W. Watson, Susan M. Watson, Gerald W. Hopple, United States intelligence: an encyclopedia (page 1974)
- Closely representing an alibi, creating a backstop could involve such measures as having people available to verify the details of an agent's cover story.
- 1976, Joseph Burkholder Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior (page 116)
- German: Rückhalt, Schutz, Unterstützung, Sicherung, Rettungsschirm, Sicherheitsnetz
- Italian: spalleggiamento, supporto
- Portuguese: respaldo, batente
- German: Letztsicherung, Notlösung, Auffanglösung
- Italian: garanzia, copertura
- Portuguese: rede de proteção, salvaguarda
- German: Abfangzaun
backstop (backstops, present participle backstopping; past and past participle backstopped)
Translations- Portuguese: salvaguardar
- German: Rückendeckung geben
Backstop
Proper noun
- (UK) A proposed seamless border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in the event of Brexit.
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