source of support
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsourceandsupport
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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support
noun
uk/səˈpɔːt/us/səˈpɔːrt/
agreement with and encouragement for an idea, group, ...
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(Definition ofsourceandsupportfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsource of support
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Another importantsourceofsupportcomes from the information extraction and text mining field which allow the detection and extraction of relevant information from texts.
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This is especially the case in many developing countries where the family has traditionally been the majorsourceofsupport.
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Thus, for the most wanting, children could not be asourceofsupport.
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Later, however, the practical problems with the system became anothersourceofsupportfor change.
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Although significant others can be an importantsourceofsupport, they may also be a major source of distress.
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As a spouse is an importantsourceofsupportin later life, marital status is influential.
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One keysourceofsupportremained local churches.
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At the same time, the shift in employer-provided pension coverage from defined benefit to 401(k) plans has weakened thatsourceofsupport.
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Children are wanted as asourceofsupport, comfort in old age, power against enemies, and, after death, help into heaven.
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Anothersourceofsupportfor this conclusion is found in acoustic studies of coarticulation.
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Their roles jointly complemented the nursing function as the mainsourceofsupportstaff.
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Far from being asourceofsupport, unmarried children generally represented a net economic drain on the older parents' resources.
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One common and particularsourceofsupportremains to be identified, and this is the help which is sometimes available to refugees from co-ethnic nationals.
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Besides the family's function as the primary social group and the majorsourceofsupportand comfort, family relations may generate friction and tension that eventually leads to burn-out.
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When nosourceofsupportis adequate - not the family, not the universal welfare system, nor the labour market - the ultimate financial lifebuoy is means-tested social assistance (supplementary benefits).
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It is now generally accepted that children's growing vocabulary is an emergentsourceofsupportfor nonword repetition, supplementing the support of earlier emerging phonological representations discussed above.
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Anothersourceofsupportfor the analysis of upstep as a return to the phrasal reference line comes from the neutralisation of earlier downstep distinctions in the upstepped peak.
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We now turn to the sensitivity of the models to the assumptions about informal care, the most importantsourceofsupportfor dependent older people in all four countries.
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Family are seen as an appropriatesourceofsupportwhen parents were in need of child care, emotional support, and advice about aspects of children's behaviour and health.
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