Antonyms for backstop
ˈbækˌstɒpback·stop

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1. • Baseball
   • Fence
   • Infielder
   • Play

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1. catcher, backstopnoun

   (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher

   Synonyms:
   catcher

2. backstopnoun

   (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field

   Synonyms:
   catcher

3. backstopverb

   a precaution in case of an emergency

   "he acted as a backstop in case anything went wrong"

   Synonyms:
   catcher

4. backstopverb

   act as a backstop

How to use backstop in a sentence?

1. Cole Lyle:

   It’s a very powerful backstop when somebody’s feeling that lonely or depressed.

2. David Jones:

   I don't believe that we should get involved in any backstop proposals, but at least we can see the end of the tunnel.

3. Simon Coveney:

   In the next two weeks, we need to see written proposals. It needs to happen two weeks from the summit, if there is no progress on the backstop, we are in for an uncertain summer. At this point we need written proposals on the Irish backstop consistent with what was agreed. We await written proposals from the British side.

4. Erik Lundh:

   For the people who saved some of that money to backstop their spending, life is probably still pretty good, but for people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, that decline in real disposable income... that's much more distressing than economists and policymakers realize.

5. Eric Jorgeson:

   He climbed everything he could think of. It made us nervous early on as parents, but we got used to it, it was more other parents saying, 'Hey, your son is at the top of a backstop.'.

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