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In natural English speech, "backstop" appears in contexts such as: "alignment to lots of rules on the single market that we used to call the UK-wide backstop, which was designed so that it wasn't just Northern Ireland that was following all those rules, but the whole of the UK. So, there is a ready-made solution sitting waiting to be dusted off.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

noun

IPA/ˈbæk.stɒp/

Syllablesbac·kstop

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alignment to lots of rules on the single market that we used to call the UK-wide

backstop, which was designed so that it wasn't just Northern Ireland that was following all those rules, but the whole of the UK. So, there is a ready-made

solution sitting waiting to be dusted off.

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noun

An object or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

noun

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.”

verb

To serve as backstop for.

verb

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.”

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