How to pronounce“backstop”in English
adjfrom the EU and the UK while maintaining the same political relations with the rest of the UK this Northern Ireland only backs up was the e use first
backstop proposal so here if the Prime Minister were to go for it that you could get it ready in plenty of time for that crucial EU leaders summit in
mid-october allowing Boris Johnson to say job done renegotiated I told you so
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Definitions of “backstop”
An object or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
“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.”
To serve as backstop for.
To bolster, support.
“Russia signalled on Monday it would backstop the European Union's bailout of Cyprus despite anger that the weekend rescue deal would impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors, many of them Russian.”