Usually means: Safety measure preventing worse outcome.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word backstop:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. backstop: Merriam-Webster
  2. backstop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backstop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backstop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backstop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backstop, backstop: Wordnik
  7. backstop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Backstop, backstop: Wiktionary
  9. backstop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backstop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backstop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Backstop, backstop: Dictionary.com
  13. Backstop (baseball), Backstop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. backstop: Rhymezone
  15. backstop: FreeDictionary.org
  16. backstop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. backstop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. backstop: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backstop: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backstop: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backstop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. backstop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Backstop)

noun:  A thing 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.
noun:  (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
noun:  (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
noun:  (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
noun:  (cricket, dated) The longstop.
noun:  (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
noun:  (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
verb:  (transitive) To serve as backstop for.
verb:  (transitive) To bolster, support.
noun:  (UK) A proposed seamless border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in the event of Brexit.

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