underpin : 支える、support

underpin

支える、To support from below, as with props, girders, or masonry.

一般例文

• assumptions that underpinned their claims

英字新聞からの例文

• 引用元 : Financial Times (by Richard Waters) - Qualcomm has been playing a weakened hand (2017/11)

  Royalty rates have not been set yet. But Qualcomm, which claims a big slice of the technology underpinning 5G, hopes to capture much of the upside.

• 引用元 : Financial Times (FT Confidential Research) - Chinese depositors flock to fintech in flight from low bank rates (2017/11)

  Barring a significant market failure that challenges the moral hazard underpinning these investments, we believe such alternative choices are here to stay.