Backing and Expense

Backing

Backing noun - An act or instance of helping.

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Expense and backing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Expense" instead a noun "Backing".

Nearby Words: back, background, backer, backup, backed

Expense noun - A payment made in the course of achieving a result.

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Backing and expense are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backing" instead a noun "Expense".

Nearby Words: expend, expensive, expensively, expensed, expensing

considerable	considerable backing	considerable expense
legitimate	legitimate backing	legitimate expense
actual	actual backing	actual expense
massive	massive backing	massive expense
Other adjectives: major, minimal, additional.

Played for Laughs in The Hire: Star, where an incredibly abusive singer's driver decides to have some fun at her expense, leading her bodyguards (trying to catch up in an SUV) in a high speed chase through a city, at one point backing into an alleyway to see if they'd "lost them".

Source: Blind Alley
It's very loosely based on actual events (which, for one thing, actually occurred in 1942).Spielberg, with the combined backing of two major studios (Universal and Columbia), spared no expense on this film.

Source: Film / 1941

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