The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SUPPORTS
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More clues leading to the result SUPPORTS
- Encourages university players initially joining in soccer etc
- Games incorporating leading backs
- Stays for two drinks before end of festivities
- Props to good guys eating up unfinished pork
- Defends drink
- Tees backs up
- Members’ stands?
- Champions drink alcohol before penultimate contest
- Have a meal with wines and props
- Champions ahead in game’s final minutes
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What does SUPPORTS mean?
SUPPORTS noun- (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
- Financial or other help.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- In relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
- (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- Evidence.
- Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- An accompaniment in music.
- (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
- To keep from falling.
- To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- To help, particularly financially.
- To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
- To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.
- To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
- To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
- A position in which a gymnast is holding their body above the rings (or high bar, parallel bars...) usually with straight arms.