buttress, shore, shore sth up, a run on the bank, shore and buttress an old building

“A public culture dominated by individuals talking about themselves tends to buttress the idea that poetry is mainly, even exclusively, about personal experience.” —Anahid Nersessian

"Night on the Shores of Lake Ilmen", Ivan Bilibin (Stage design for the opera "Sadko" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Quote:

"Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country." — Laura Ingalls Wilder, By the Shores of Silver Lake

Lehman's announcement on Monday was meant to shore up eroding confidence in the investment bank. Lehman became the smallest of the major investment banks after Bear Stearns was acquired by JPMorgan Chase following what was effectively a run on the bank.


Barclays said it will raise $8.9 billion through a share issue that will include Asian and Mideast investors, in a move to shore up its balance sheet.

PARIS -- Alcatel-Lucent's board has tapped two Europeans for the top posts at the Franco-American telecom-equipment company, moving to restore management unity and shore up the company's finances.

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. announced a plan Sunday to help shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

美國出台兩大房貸機構救助措施

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The motivation for Jet Blue was more clear: The stake sale could help shore up the lagging finances of the airline, which has $433 million in current debt obligations and has already substantially curtailed its growth plans and sold some assets like older planes.

Moscow Moves to Calm Investors

Top Russian officials sought to reassure investors alarmed by the sudden removal of long-serving Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, predicting a rebound for the ruble even as the central bank said it spent $2.36 billion on Monday to shore up the slumping currency.

prop
To support by placing something beneath or against; shore up.

shore was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

• shore
• shore sth up (SUPPORT PHYSICALLY)
• shore sth up (MAKE EFFECTIVE)
• on shore

Verb

1.

shore up - support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"

verb

[with object] (shore something up) 

• 1Support or hold up something with props or beams: rescue workers had to shore up the building, which was in danger of collapse
  

  More example sentencesSynonyms
• 1.1Support or assist something that would otherwise fail or decline: Congress approved a $700 billion plan to shore up the financial industry

a run on the bank 銀行擠兌

buttress

/ˈbʌtrɪs/

noun

1. 1.

   a structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it.

   "the cathedral's massive buttresses"

   Similar:

   prop

   support

   abutment

   shore

   pier

   reinforcement

   stanchion

   stay

   strut

   

   

   

   
2. 2.

   a source of defence or support.

   "she clung to her shrinking faith as a buttress against despair"

verb

1. 1.

   provide (a building or structure) with buttresses.

   "we buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse"
2. 2.

   increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce.

   "authority was buttressed by religious belief"