backing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: back=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

backing, n. 

•  The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.  [1913 Webster]
•  Support or aid given to a person or cause.  [1913 Webster]
•  The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

backing, n.
1 a support. b a body of supporters. c material used to form a back or support.
2 musical accompaniment, esp. to a singer.

THESAURUS

backing

Brownian movement, Smyth sewing, abetment, about-face, about-turn, advance, advocacy, advocate, advocating, aegis, affirmation, aid, alpenstock, angular motion, approval, approving, arm, ascending, ascent, assistance, athletic supporter, attestation, auspices, authentication, axial motion, back, back track, back trail, backbone, backflowing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backsliding, backup, backward motion, bandeau, bearer, bearing, bearing out, bibliofilm, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, bipack, black-and-white film, bolstering, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, bushing, buttress, buttressing, cane, capitalization, care, career, carriage, carrier, carrying, cartridge, case, casemaking, casing-in, certification, cervix, championship, charity, chassis, circumstantiation, climbing, collating, collating mark, color film, color negative film, confirmation, cooperation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, corset, countenance, course, cover, crook, crutch, current, deficit financing, descending, descent, disenchantment, documentation, dope, downward motion, drift, driftage, dry plate, dust cover, dust jacket, ebbing, emulsion, encouragement, endorsement, favor, favorable, favoring, film, financial backing, financial support, financing, flight, flip-flop, flow, flux, folding, footband, fortification, forward motion, fosterage, foundation garment, frame, fulcrum, funding, funds, gathering, girdle, gluing-off, goodwill, grant, grubstake, guidance, guy, guywire, hard binding, headband, help, infrastructure, interest, investment, jacket, jock, jockstrap, lapse, library binding, lining, lining-up, mainstay, maintainer, maintenance, mast, mechanical binding, microfilm, money, monochromatic film, moral support, motion-picture film, mount, mounting, neck, negative, niggerhead, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, orthochromatic film, pack, panchromatic film, passage, patronage, patronization, perfect binding, photographic paper, plastic binding, plate, plunging, printing paper, pro, progress, proof, prop, proving, proving out, provision of capital, psychological support, radial motion, random motion, ratification, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reinstatement, relapse, reliance, rest, resting place, restitution, restoration, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rigging, right-about, right-about-face, rising, roll, rounding, run, rush, saddle stitching, seconding, security blanket, set, setting, sewing, shoulder, shroud, side sewing, sideward motion, signature, sinking, skeleton, slipcase, slipcover, slipping back, smashing, soaring, soft binding, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, spine, spiral binding, sponsorship, sprit, staff, stake, stamping, standing rigging, stapling, stave, stay, sternway, stick, stiffener, stream, strengthener, strengthening, subsiding, subsidy, substantiation, subvention, succor, support, supporter, supporting, supporting evidence, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sustainer, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, swingaround, sympathy, tailband, tipping, traject, trajet, trend, trimming, tripack, turn, turnabout, turnaround, tutelage, underframe, undergirding, upholder, upholding, upkeep, upward motion, validation, vehicle, verification, volte-face, walking stick, well-disposed, well-inclined, wire stitching, wrapper