Definitions for prop up
prop up

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1. prop up, prop, shore up, shoreverb

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   "shore and buttress an old building"

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1. prop upverb

   To support with, or as if with, a prop.

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1. prop up

   To "prop up" generally refers to supporting, sustaining or preventing something or someone from falling, either physically - by putting an object underneath for support, or figuratively like providing financial or other forms of assistance. It can also mean to falsely maintain or boost something like prices or ratings, often through artificial means.

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1. upprop

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prop up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prop up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of prop up in a Sentence

1. President Obama:

   [A]n attempt byRussia and Iran to prop up Assad and try to pacify the population is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire. And it won’t work.

2. Spokesperson Tommy Garcia:

   While Republicans chase windmills and rush their MAGA money into out-of-reach districts hoping to catch a couple headlines, Democrats are investing strategically and taking nothing for granted to maintain the path to 218 – while also forcing national Republicans to spend millions to prop up their extreme candidates, we’re confident the MAGA Republicans that would be a rubber stamp for the GOP’s nationwide abortion ban and gutting of Social Security and Medicare will never see the halls of Congress.

3. Nile Gardiner:

   There is a real danger for some sort of large-scale Iranian intervention to prop up the Assad regime at the same time as the Kurds are making progress against ISIS; so a war on several fronts.

4. Betsy Brantner Smith:

   After the worst week politically in his presidential career, it appears that Joe Biden plans to pivot to ‘police reform’ to prop up his faltering reputation and revive his popularity with‘anti-police’ activists.

5. Daleep Singh:

   The contraction this year is smaller than what I predicted publicly, but to my mind what Putin has done is prop up this year’s growth, in an accounting sense, by sacrificing long term growth potential, the lasting consequence of this war will be that Russia has lost Europe and the G7 as energy consumers and that’s going to dry out the major source of export revenue that remains. And it’s going to leave Russia as a smaller, weaker, more isolated economy.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=prop up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Prop_Up
3. ^ ChatGPT
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