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Upholder vs Backer - What's the difference?

upholder | backer | Related terms |

Upholder is a related term of backer.


As nouns the difference between upholder and backer

is that upholder is someone who upholds something while backer is baker.

upholder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who upholds something
  • (obsolete) a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster
    • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    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