shore sth up
— Phrasal Verb with shore /ʃɔːr/ verb FINANCEDefinition
› to support a business, system, currency, etc. that is weak and seems likely to fail, especially by providing money: They put in an additional $3.6 million for its employee pension fund as part of a four-year plan to shore it up. India's central bank has spent an estimated $1-2 billion to shore the rupee up since April.
(Definition of shore sth up from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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