Usually means: Support or backing, especially military.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. appui: Collins English Dictionary
  2. appui: Wordnik
  3. appui: Wiktionary
  4. Appui, appui: Dictionary.com
  5. Appui: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. appui: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Appui: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. appui: FreeDictionary.org
  9. appui: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. Appui: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (appui)

noun:  (obsolete) A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.
noun:  (horse-riding, obsolete) The mutual bearing or support of the hand of the rider and the mouth of the horse through the bit and bridle.
verb:  (transitive, military) To prop or support, e.g. by posting troops.
noun:  Clipping of point d'appui. [(military) A given point or body upon which troops are formed, or by which they are marched in line or column.]

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