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- Dictionarybackstop/ˈbakstɒp/
noun
- 1. a thing placed at the rear of something as a barrier or support: "pull back harder until you reach the backstop on the stick"
- 2. a high fence or similar structure behind the home plate area.
verb
- 1. support or reinforce: "the founding banks were backstopping the loans"
- 2. act as backstop for.
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6 days ago · backstop. The fence behind homeplate, designed to protect spectators from wild pitches or foul balls. Catcher, sometimes "backstopper". back-to-back Consecutive. When two consecutive batters hit home runs, they are said to hit back-to-back homers. Or a pitcher may issue back-to-back walks, and so forth. backup Opposite of "backdoor".
1 day ago · The academics who attended the round tables valued the interpersonal dimension of academic support, and had a strong sense that there is a connection between the personal relationship and students being “known”, student engagement and student success, especially at the early stage of the course and during transition into university.
1 day ago · Large language models (LLMs) Large language models (LLMs) are a type of deep learning model trained on a large dataset to perform natural language understanding and generation tasks. They understand and generate content using natural language processing (NLP). This results in more conversational outputs.
1 day ago · While the concept of “public policy” is not defined and subject to interpretation, in practice, various courts have construed the exception in a relatively narrow way. France’s Arbitration Act ( 2011 ) focuses on concepts of “international public policy” when analyzing the recognition and enforcement of international arbitration ...
4 days ago · Syndication process for the backstop of the New Secured Financings to be provided by the Banks 3 extended to July 11, 2024, 6:00 p.m. CET, to take into account possible modifications related to ...
4 days ago · The first staging post would be to scale up the current PPF to at least £100bn. Conservative objections that this would leave the pension funds with no fiscal backstop can be easily overcome; backed by the state, the PPF will become the new backstop via a guarantee that does not score as public borrowing.
1 day ago · Central bank issues CBDC, provides a backstop to the payment system and keeps track of all CBDC transactions. Retail users can access CBDC through banks (and/or other private non-bank financial institutions), which play an operational role by supporting the system and handling payments, like in the indirect model.