supporting

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
• (RP) IPA: /səˈpɔːtɪŋ/
• (rhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
• (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /səˈpoətɪŋ/

Adjective

supporting

1. That supports.

Verb

1. present participle of support#English|support

Noun

supporting (plural supportings)

1. That which supports something else; a support.
   • 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (page 252)

     But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]

   • 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

     […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.

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