backings
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- 1Plural of backing.
The album featured lush orchestral backings behind every vocal track.
Rival candidates secured competing financial backings ahead of the election.
Note
A plural that only some uses of backing take comfortably. Every meaning of the noun can be counted or left uncountable, and the plural belongs to the counted side: separate liners or reinforcing layers, several backdrops, distinct musical accompaniments, individual sources of money. When backing means support in general, as in the plan has wide backing, it stays singular and resists the -s.
backings is a form of backing
backing, noun: Support given to a person, project, or cause, especially in the form of money. Full entry
- Forms
- backingbackings plural
- Spelling
- backing → backings: add -s
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