English-Italian translations for buttress

• sperone
• appoggiare
• confermare
• contrafforte
• contrafforti
• corroborare
• corroborazione
• rafforzare
  Molte banche hanno invece usato tali risorse per rafforzare la propria posizione. Instead, many banks have used the liquidity to buttress their own position.
  Dal nostro punto di vista, anziché aumentare e rafforzare il ruolo del Mediatore, la definizione di cattiva amministrazione proposta nella risoluzione potrebbe avere l'effetto contrario. In our view, far from increasing and buttressing the role of the Ombudsman, the definition of maladministration that appears in the resolution could have exactly the opposite effect.
• sostenere
• supporto

Definition of buttress

• A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it
• A buttress-root
• Anything that supports or strengthens
• To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress

Examples

• Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress, Hourglass Buttress, Kardam Buttress, Seven Buttresses thumb|right|Milestone Buttress on w:Tryfan|Tryfan. The direct route is highlighted.

Related words

• buttressing
• buttress root
• flying buttress