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advocate, back, champion, endorse (also indorse), patronize, plump (for), plunk (for) or plonk (for)
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brace, buttress, mount, mounting, prop, reinforcement, shore, spur, stay, underpinning
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I completely support your decision to stay. She no longer supports the war. The senator says that he supports the proposed legislation. Which presidential candidate do you support? The study is supported by the American Medical Association. The country's citizens were asked to support the war effort. Her friends supported her by signing her petition. The charity supports needy families. Bombers were called in to support the ground troops. The planet's atmosphere cannot support human life.Noun
The team gets a lot of support from its fans. I'd like to thank my parents for all of their love and support over the years. He depended on his wife for emotional support. He applied for financial support from the state. the company's friendly support staff Inspectors found that some of the bridge's supports were weak. She used my arm as a support and limped to the chair. These sneakers are designed to give your feet extra support.
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Earlier this week, Amazon pointed to polls showing the majority of New Yorkers supported the new headquarters, and its executives continued to meet with local and state officials. — Katie Honan, WSJ, "Amazon Cancels HQ2 Plans in New York City," 15 Feb. 2019 The musclebound torso before me wears nothing but a wrist band and a chest strap supporting a sensor the size and shape of a hotel soap bar. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "What Happened When I Trained With Air Force Human Performance Specialists," 12 Feb. 2019 For all his frustration with sections of the media over the years, as a future king, William believes in and supports a free press. — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, "How the Internet’s Obsession with the Royal Family Turned Toxic," 10 Feb. 2019 Out of the natural or herbal supplements available (including chamomile and lavender), valerian has the most studies supporting its sleep-inducing effects, Dr. Bollu says. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "What You Need to Know About OTC Sleep Aids, According to Neurologists," 30 Jan. 2019 So talk to your friends and family (especially those in the red states), consider volunteering or supporting an organization like Planned Parenthood or NARAL, and vote. — Molly Finneseth, Glamour, "How to Be Prepared if Roe v. Wade Is Overturned," 22 Jan. 2019 Patti Perret / Universal Studios Green Book took home three Golden Globe Awards on Sunday for Best Comedy, Best Screenplay, and supporting actor Mahershala Ali — and that’s hardly a surprise. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Green Book builds a feel-good comedy atop an artifact of shameful segregation. Yikes.," 7 Jan. 2019 Jerome Powell: China, Tariffs and the U.S. Economy Your browser does not support HTML5 video. — Justin Lahart, WSJ, "Warning to Investors: Powell Is No Greenspan," 15 Jan. 2019 The Duchess of Sussex stepped out following the announcement to visit one of the charities, Smart Works in London, which supports vulnerable and unemployed women to return to work. — Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, "Meghan Markle Styles a Woman for Her Job Interview During First Royal Patron Visit to Smart Works," 10 Jan. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Local support is critical in making a decision, said Dennis Donovan, who is a principal at Wadley Donovan Gutshaw Consulting LLC and has spent decades helping companies select sites for facilities across the country. — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, "Amazon’s HQ2 Reversal Highlights Risks of Public Perception in Site Selection," 14 Feb. 2019 And the support from the community was greater than the push-back, Pedro says. — Megan Lasher, Seventeen, "LGBTQ Teens Share Their Experiences Attending Prom," 11 Feb. 2019 The Duchess was writing in support of Hello! magazine's #HelloToKindness campaign, an initiative inspired by the social media trolls currently targeting Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, "Sarah Ferguson Recalls How the Press Pitted Her and Princess Diana Against Each Other," 11 Feb. 2019 One of the arguments against buying into GeForce RTX has been the lack of game support for the new technology. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "Why you should or shouldn't buy a GeForce RTX laptop," 29 Jan. 2019 Equipped with powerful signs and posters, marchers raised their voices in support of equal rights, healthcare, and social justice. — De Elizabeth, Glamour, "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Speaks at 2019 Women's March in New York City," 20 Jan. 2019 Yale Program on Climate Change Communication That support is now increasingly being reflected in policies at the local and state level. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Climate and energy news in 2018 actually wasn’t all bad," 1 Jan. 2019 But despite this issue, there was a period of time, between the late ’60 and late ’70s, when federal support of mass transit was a more serious part of policy discussions in Washington, D.C., and a different trajectory seemed possible. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "Public transit’s missed opportunity," 20 Nov. 2018 Arizona’s plan has broad support but hasn’t been approved by the Legislature, a factor that has made the negotiations on the drought contingency plan more complex. — Felicia Fonseca, The Seattle Times, "6 states backed Colorado River plan; Arizona faces deadline," 30 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'support.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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What It Is
In technical trading analysis, support is a lower limit in a price channel in which a security’s price tends to stay.
How It Works
Price channels can slope up (indicating bullish sentiment) or down (indicating bearish sentiment); they don’t have to simply go “sideways.” The important geometric characteristic is that the resistance lines (which are the opposite of support lines; they are the upper limits of the price channel) and support lines are parallel, as shown in this price channel for ChevronTexaco (CVX). The channel lines themselves are often based on multiday moving averages or logarithmic scales that reflect price movements in percentage terms. However, technical trading is as much an art as it is a science, and so one technical trader’s price channel might be different from another’s.
When a stock’s price touches or goes below the support, this may signal a trend change, which is why the support level is very important to technical traders.
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Why It Matters
Price channels help tip traders off about trend changes in a stock or "unusual" activity when the price goes above or below the price channel lines (we call this a breakout). For example, a technical trader might buy when a stock hits the support level of an upward-sloping price channel; similarly, traders hope to be already out of a stock before it hits the support level on a downward-sloping price channel.
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