- backer
- n1. supporter, upholder, champion, advocate, promoter, Inf. pusher; proponent, favorer, partisan, sympathizer, well-wisher; adherent, follower, disciple, votary.2. sponsor, patron, (of the arts)Maecenas, financer, angel, subsidizer; guarantor, warrantor, endorser, en-surer, co-signer.3. partner, sharer, mate, second, right hand, cooperator; aider, helper, assistant, coadjutor, coad-jutrix, adjuvant, adjunct; abettor, accessory, accomplice, conspirator; ally, colleague, confrere, confidante, crony, sidekick.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.