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Defender vs Backer - What's the difference?

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Defender is a related term of backer.


As nouns the difference between defender and backer

is that defender is someone who defends people or property while backer is baker.

defender

English

Alternative forms

* defendor (obsolete) * defendour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who defends people or property.
  • (legal) A lawyer who represents defendants.
  • A fighter who repels an attack.
  • (sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.

    • backer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, s; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (phonetics) (back)
    • Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174:
  • :: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
    • English agent nouns