Masculine

soutien

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La   logistique   nécessaire  n'aurait  jamais   pu   être   fournie   sans   le   soutien  d'un  milieu   sympathisant .

The necessary logistics could never have been provided without the support of a sympathetic environment.

  1. (masculine) support (physical)
  2. (masculine) support (psychological/emotional)
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, masculine) ellipsis of soutien-gorge

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/su.tjɛ̃/
Etymology

Deverbal from soutenir. (soutien-gorge): Compare typologically Russian подтя́жки (podtjážki) (distantly cognate vie Proto-Indo-European *ten-).

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