Definition of "backed" []

• Having or furnished with a back or backing. Often used in combination: a low-backed chair; a high-backed sofa. (adjective)

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• "Now officials are looking to apply it to other markets, such as those for securities backed by commercial real-estate loans and "private label" mortgages that aren't tied to the big U. S.-backed mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
• "A U. N.-backed war-crimes tribunal is now going after alleged war criminals -- most recently Taylor himself, indicted last month on charges that he'd backed drug-crazed guerrillas in return for access to rebel-dug Sierra Leonean diamonds."
• "Now, Lebanon's western backed, U. S.-backed prime minister, has called this nothing short of a coup."