Usually means: Assistance provided to ensure success.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word support:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. support: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. support: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. support: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. support, the support: Collins English Dictionary
  5. support: Vocabulary.com
  6. Support, support, support: Wordnik
  7. support: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. support: Wiktionary
  9. support: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. support: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. support: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. support, support (support level): Dictionary.com
  13. support: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. support: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Support (emotion), Support (mathematics), Support (measure theory), Support (structure), Support (technical analysis), Support: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Support: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. support: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. support: Rhymezone
  19. support, support (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. support: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. support: Free Dictionary
  22. support: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. support: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. support: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. support: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Support: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  4. SUPPORT: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. support: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Support: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. support: Glossary of research economics
  8. Support: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Support: Investopedia
  11. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  12. Support: Securities Terminology
  13. Support (emotion), support: Legal dictionary
  14. Support: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. support: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. support: Netlingo
  3. Support (emotion), support: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Support (emotion), support: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SUPPORT: Acronym Finder
  3. support: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Support: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. support, support, support, support, support, support, support (graded ring): PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Support: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See supportability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To help keep from falling.
verb:  (transitive) To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
verb:  (transitive) To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
verb:  (transitive) To provide evidence for; to lend credibility to.
verb:  (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented position; to give support to.
verb:  (transitive) To assist or be involved with, but not be responsible for.
verb:  (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
verb:  (transitive, said of electronic devices, programming languages, etc.) To be designed to provide capacity for; to work or be compatible with (a part, accessory, file type, program, algorithm, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; tolerate.
verb:  (transitive) To play a lesser part in the same production with (a star performer).
noun:  (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
noun:  Financial or other help.
noun:  Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
noun:  (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
noun:  (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).
noun:  (commutative algebra, of a module M over a commutative ring R) The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM
noun:  Evidence.
noun:  (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
noun:  An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
noun:  An accompaniment in music.
noun:  (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
noun:  (gymnastics) Clipping of support position. [(gymnastics) a position in which a gymnast is holding their body above the rings (or high bar, parallel bars...) usually with straight arms.]

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