backstop 的 3 个定义
- a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- Baseball. the catcher.
- a person or thing that serves as a support, safeguard, or reinforcement: There were technicians on board as backstops to the automated controls.
back·stopped, back·stop·ping.
- to act as a backstop.
back·stopped, back·stop·ping.
- to act as a backstop to: The government agreed to backstop companies that invested in oil exploration.
backstop 近义词
等同于 fence
更多backstop例句
- California’s offsets are considered additional carbon reductions because the floor serves “as a conservative backstop,” Clegern said.
- Credits in the pool can never be sold, but act as a kind of backstop in case of wildfires, drought and other events.
- Instead, it calls on government to act as a backstop through incentives that will lead to job creation and provide greater access to the safety net while expanding things like universal pre-kindergarten and childcare.
- It paid for a backstop and dugouts at a neighborhood Little League field.
- The government is going to be putting a backstop on certain parts of the economy.
- On the other, you risk ballooning one into the backstop in front of 50,000 people.
- After the corporate split, the paper will no longer have blockbuster movies to backstop it.
- It could serve as a backstop for Mitt, bringing him over the top at the last possible moment.
- And Perry thinks TARP was a total mistake—along with all subsequent efforts to backstop or stimulate the economy.
- She was out of the cell before it hit the backstop and following me down the hall towards her brother's room.
- Each time one sailed away over the backstop, it was like the pop of a safety-valve; it averted an explosion.
- The backstop was built up of earth and was soft enough so that the pins would not splinter on striking it.
- He began to turn its center dial, at first a quarter circle, and then all the way to the final backstop of the calibration.
- Finally, the tenth shot smacked against the backstop and he racked his weapon and punched at the target return button.