{"id":365616,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/support.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"support","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/support.html","title":{"rendered":"Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">vt<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to promote the interests or cause of <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to uphold or defend as valid or right <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to argue or vote for <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to provide with substantiation or corroboration &#91; an alibi&#93; <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to provide with the means of livelihood (as housing, food, or clothing) esp. in accordance with an agreement or court order <br \/>  <b>4<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to hold up or in position <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> maintain the physical integrity of &#91;the right to have one&#8217;s land <i>ed<\/i> by the underlying land&#93; <br \/> n  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the act or process of supporting <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the condition of being supported &#91;pledged the candidate their &#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a means of obtaining the necessities of life (as food, shelter, and clothing) <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a source of livelihood esp. in the form of alimony or child support <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> something that provides support <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Support&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-365616","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/365616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=365616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}