All backup synonyms
back·up
B b noun backup
- auxiliary — An auxiliary is a person who is employed to assist other people in their work. Auxiliaries are often medical workers or members of the armed forces.
- substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- moral support — emotional assistance, encouragement
- assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- backing — If someone has the backing of an organization or an important person, they receive support or money from that organization or person in order to do something.
- holdup — a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
- snarl — to become tangled; get into a tangle.
- tie-up — a temporary stoppage or slowing of business, traffic, telephone service, etc., as due to a strike, storm, or accident.
- tailback — the offensive back who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage, as in a single wingback or double wingback formation.
- reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
- copy — If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- replica — a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- fill-in — a person or thing that fills in, as a substitute, replacement, or insertion: The company used a fill-in for workers on vacation.
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
adjective backup
- subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- in reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- supportive — giving support.
- in store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- adjuvant — aiding or assisting
- small fry — child
- substitutive — serving as or capable of serving as a substitute.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- vicarial — of or relating to a vicar.
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- standby — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
- appurtenant — relating, belonging, or accessory