to shore up
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5.4
- phrasal verb
- /ʃɔr ʌp/
:
apuntalar
- To avoid a financial crisis, the government must shore up the struggling banks.
- efforts to shore up
- try to shore up
- shore up support
Well, we started using technology to shore up weaknesses in our own capabilities.
- Well, we started using technology to shore up weaknesses in our own capabilities.
- The losses prompted the bank to announce a share sale to shore up its capital position.
- LDI funds will have additionally sold index linked gilts to shore up the cash in their funds.
- Where is it that we use the literature and the research where you're going to do desk research to sort of shore up one leg of what you're doing?
- And it's, it's the, the thing we need to shore up is the trustworthiness of indispensable institutions.
- But we've also been recently America Fast forward in terms of trying finally to deal with us how to sort of shore up our public sector.
- And in developing those, it helps to shore up some of their weaknesses in a communal setting.
- Yeah, the things you do to protect your clients sometimes look like acts of aggression, but really they're just trying to shore up a defense.
- As she sought to shore up her relationships with people who buy ink by the barrel, she lied more.
- We have to really shore up the choices, particularly for our low income communities in rural areas.
- And I think they are playing a long game in terms of containing the problem by strengthening NATO and trying to do what we can to shore up the Ukrainian government.
- We just heard that multiple banks were in talks to try to shore up the debt that backs the X slash Twitter acquisition deal.
- As we support the people of Ukraine, we must also shore up our shared resilience, both to protect our people and our values.
- So he's trying to shore up his evangelical base in the United States of America, which is a play out of Donald Trump's playbook.
Examples
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The Lions have made some tepid moves to shore up the pass defense in free agency.
Blog text (17) -
Japan's sustained development assistance has helped shore up economic and social stabilization.
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We have to really shore up the choices, particularly for our low income communities in rural areas.
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Newton brought in his own people to the key jobs, to help shore up his new position.
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As we support the people of Ukraine, we must also shore up our shared resilience, both to protect our people and our values.
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The losses prompted the bank to announce a share sale to shore up its capital position.
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The most urgent task of the next decade is to shore up democracy in these countries.
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Instead, individuals used the money to shore up depleted bank accounts or pay off overextended credit card bills.
Academic text (2011) -
University of Akron President Matt Wilson outlined a two-year plan last week to shore up the school's finances.
Academic text (2016) -
Taxpayers have pledged as much as 70 billion euros to shore up the country's debt-laden financial system.
Blog text (21)
Synonyms
84
4.3
To give extra support to a person, plan, or idea
68
4.1
To hold something up by putting an object under or against it
54
3.6
Support something so it does not fall or fail
47
7.1
To support a building or wall by placing a beam against it
3
5.1
Make something stronger by adding support or protection
To give help to someone or something to make them stronger
To make something firm and strong again after it is damaged
Has extra support to make it stronger
Antonyms
How Supported
3
5.1
99
3.9
30
5.4
54
3.6
∞
1.0
238
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to support or strengthen' is directly derivable from 'shore' (to brace or prop) combined with the particle 'up' (completive/augmentative), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the sense. This verb+particle composition is a common, productive pattern in English (and has parallels in other languages), making the expression predictable for B1 learners.
Etymology
Shore up comes from building work: people would put a strong beam called a shore against a weak wall to hold it up. So, to shore up today means 'to support' or 'strengthen' something that might fall or fail.