Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, this morning, said a time-limited backstop would be unacceptable, and has previously promised to vote down the UK’s Brexit withdrawal deal unless it features a satisfactory backstop.
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Backstop
//ˈbæk.stɒp//
Synonyms for "backstop" (117 found)
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Strong matches (35)
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11 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 8 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- achtervang noun (thing or a person to support)
- noodoplossing noun (default arrangement)
Galician
3 entries- respaldo noun (thing or a person to support)
- salvagarda noun (default arrangement)
- salvagardar verb (serve as backstop)
German
4 entries- Abfangzaun noun (wall or fence behind home plate)
- Auffanglösung noun (default arrangement)
- Letztsicherung noun (default arrangement)
- Notlösung noun (default arrangement)
Irish
1 entries- cúlstop noun (default arrangement)
Italian
4 entries- copertura noun (default arrangement)
- garanzia noun (default arrangement)
- spalleggiamento noun (thing or a person to support)
- supporto noun (thing or a person to support)
Māori
1 entries- tautopenga noun (catcher; the position of catcher)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nødløsning noun (default arrangement)
Portuguese
4 entries- batente noun (thing or a person to support)
- rede de proteção noun (default arrangement)
- respaldo noun (thing or a person to support)
- salvaguarda noun (default arrangement)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
"The 2½ years since have been about hammering home these points in any European capital that would listen. And in spite of capacity-sapping talks on the first point – Brexit, border and backstop – the Department of Foreign Affairs and other government departments have been working quietly to make good on the second.
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Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.
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[…] to be set up in Indonesia with a phony book and school supplies company established in New York City as a backstop.
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