Prop Up

Definition: Prop Up

Prop Up

Verb

1. Support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Prop Up

Crosswords: Prop Up

Oh, you crazy bastard! You'd prop up dead men and inspect them if you was ordered to! (The Hill; writing credit: Ray Rigby; R.S. Allen)

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Comic book illustration depicting a diverse group of past and present Americans helping each other prop up a tower wrapped in an American flag beneath a rainbow, following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City] / E. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Belgium

The Belgian Government reacted with poor macroeconomic policies to the 1973 and 1979 oil price hikes: it hired the redundant work force into the public sector and subsidized ailing industries--coal, steel, textiles, glass, and shipbuilding--in order to prop up the economy. (references)

Ukraine

Ukraine has recovered from the massive capital outflow caused by the financial crisis of 1998. As a result of the crisis, reserves plummeted in 1998 to less than a third of their level in the previous year - despite very heavy international borrowing to prop up the reserves position. (references)

Vietnam

Random and frequent price fluctuations are common, as many local distributors and wholesalers under-cut prices to achieve a faster turnover or withhold goods to prop up prices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "prop up": prop up street corners ♦ prop up temporarily. Additional references.

Albanian

përkrah (advance, back, bolster, buttress, champion, encourage, espouse, Favor, favour, hug, patronize, promote, protect, root for, side with, stand up for, stick up for, support, take smb.'s part, upbear, uphold), mbështet shkallët, mbështet (abet, adhere, back, back up, build, buttress, countenance, found, hold up, lean, pillow, push, shore, support, sustain, uphold), mbështes (lean, pillow, push, shore, support, sustain, uphold). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам подпори, крепя (hold, hold on, poise, retain, steady, uphold), подкрепям (aid, back, back up, bear out, bolster, buttress, carry through, corroborate, countenance, enlist, give a hand, patronize, piece in, promote, refresh, second, stand by, stand to, stick by, stick up for, support, sustain, take up, undergird, underlie, underpin, uphold, verify, weigh in with), подпирам (atlas, back, shore, support, sustain, truss, underlay, underpin, uphold), поддържам (adhere, atlas, back, bear, buoy, carry, contend, expound, favour, feed, fuel, help on, hold, hold up, keep, keep up, maintain, nourish, play along, ply, promote, pull for, retain, run, service, side with, stand for, stand in with, support, sustain, take, upbear, uphold, vindicate, vouch). (various references)

Chinese 

牮 , �"��'� (support), 搘 . (various references)

Czech

podepřít (brace, buttress, corroborate, prop, shore up, stake, support, underlay, underpin). (various references)

French

mise sur béquille du motocycle (prop up motorcycle). (various references)

German

unterstützen (abet, aid, back, encourage, further, lean, maintain, patronize, promote, provide, second, speak for, sponsor, subsidize, support, sustain, to abet, to back, to facilitate, to relieve, to second, to stand by, to support, uphold), stützen (back, back up, base on, bolster, brace, carry, enforce, hold up, lean, pillow, precipitate, reinforce, shore, shore up, support, sustain, to base on, to support, to sustain, underpin, uphold), aufstützen (lean, rest), abstützen (shore, shore up, support). (various references)

Hungarian

megtámaszt (buttress, hold up, to prop, to prop up, to stanchion, to stay, underset). (various references)

Indonesian

mengganjal (shore up, wedge in, wedge tight), mengampu, mengalangkan, mencagak. (various references)

Italian

mettere il motociclo sul cavalletto (prop up motorcycle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�う (to support or prop up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かう (to buy, to feed, to keep, to raise, to support or prop up). (various references)

Pig Latin

oppray upay

Russian 

подпереть (support). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podupreti (bolster, brace, buttress, shore, shore up, stay, support, truss, underlay, underpin), podbočiti. (various references)

Spanish

apuntalar (brace, pin, pin up, prop, shore, shore up, truss, underpin), apoyar (abet, back, back up, buttress, cheer, countenance, espouse, Favor, favour, hold up, invest in, lean, maintain, prop, recline, rest, second, support, supporte, sustain, to support, underwrite, uphold). (various references)

Swedish

palla upp, sätta stöttor under. (various references)

Turkish

yaslamak (flatten, lean, prop), destek koymak (chock, prop, truss, underpin), dayamak (base on, base upon, lean against, ply, ply with, prop, recline, recline on, recline upon, rest, support). (various references)

Turkmen 

diremek (brace), daяamak. (various references)

fulciebantur, fulcientes, fulciet, fulcietur, fulcite, fulserint, infulciet. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: upprop.

-2 letters: pour, prop, roup.

-3 letters: our, pop, pro, pup, pur, upo.

-4 letters: op, or, up.

+1 letter: upprops.

+3 letters: uppropped.

+4 letters: presuppose, uppropping.

+5 letters: presupposed, presupposes.