backbone
/ˈbækˌbəʊn/
Misollar
- Data integrity is the backbone of security.
- Information is the backbone of modern life.
- Woman is the backbone of every society.
- Oil and gas are Algeria's backbone.
- Didouche Mourad Street is Algiers' commercial backbone.
- Invertebrates have no backbone or spinal column.
ot noun
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Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
Before automobiles, railroads were a backbone of commerce.
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Courage, fortitude, or strength.
He would make a good manager, if he had a little more backbone.
- The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.