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buoy
/bɔɪ/ verb [T]Definition
› to support a business, economy, or financial market and make it more successful: be buoyed (up) by sth Shares rose 50p to 810p, buoyed up by news of a possible merger.
(Definition of buoy verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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