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English: backstop

Portuguese translation: dar suporte/apoiar/contribuir



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English term or phrase:backstop
Portuguese translation:dar suporte/apoiar/contribuir
Entered by:Joana Gomes
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English term or phrase: backstop
Monitors the work of six community mobilizers, backstops training and capacity building, facilitates contacts with communities, local government and other partners,
Joana Gomes
Portugal
dar suporte/apoiar/contribuir
Explanation:
A única definição de backstop que encontrei como verbo foi

"act as backstop/support for"

A partir disso, deixei minhas sugestões.
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Isabella Becker
Brazil
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4 +7dar suporte/apoiar/contribuir
Isabella Becker


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
dar suporte/apoiar/contribuir

Explanation:
A única definição de backstop que encontrei como verbo foi

"act as backstop/support for"

A partir disso, deixei minhas sugestões.

Isabella Becker
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Mariana Moreira
6 mins

agree Tania Marques-Cardoso: Do OED: '... as v. trans., to support, back up; to supply with necessary additional resources. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.)'. Cheers!
11 mins

agree Deolindo
37 mins

agree rhandler
44 mins

agree Clauwolf
1 hr

agree Carlos Angelo
1 hr

agree xxxtagl
4 hrs
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