| Main Entry: | auspices |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection; support |
Synonyms: |
advocacy, aegis, authority, backing, care, charge, control, countenance, guidance, influence, patronage, sponsorship, supervision |
| Main Entry: | auspex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | augur |
Synonyms: |
diviner, foreteller, oracle, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, seer, soothsayer, vaticinator |
| Main Entry: | aegis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
Synonyms: |
auspices, backing, patronage, shelter, sponsorship, wing* |
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | backing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
Synonyms: |
abetment, accompaniment, adherence, advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, championing, championship, encouragement, endorsement, funds, grant, help, patronage, reinforcement, sanction, secondment, sponsorship, subsidy |
Antonyms: |
disfavor, opposition |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody of person, usually child |
Synonyms: |
administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, ministration, protection, safekeeping, superintendence, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, wardship |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
Synonyms: |
aegis, auspices, care, conservation, custodianship, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, ward, wardship, watch |
| Main Entry: | guidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counseling |
Synonyms: |
advice, auspices, conduct, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, government, help, instruction, intelligence, leadership, management, navigation, supervision, teaching |
| Main Entry: | means |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way, method |
Synonyms: |
agency, agent, aid, apparatus, auspices, avenue, channel, course, dodge*, equipment, expedient, factor, fashion, gimmick, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, intermediary, machinery, manner, measure, mechanism, medium, ministry, mode, modus operandi, organ, organization, paraphernalia, path, power, process, road, route, step, stepping-stone, system, tactic, technique, trick, vehicle, ways and means |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support of a cause |
Synonyms: |
advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, backing, benefaction, championship, encouragement, financing, grant, guardianship, help, promotion, protection, recommendation, sponsorship, subsidy, support |
Antonyms: |
antagonism, detraction, opposition |