to be in favor of; to support; to back; support; backing; to stand by; CL:個|个[ge4]

to pay (money)

to provide assistance; to support; to back

check (bank); cheque; CL:本[ben3]

to prop up; to support; strut; brace

a gun; guns in general

expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔[bi3],項|项[xiang4]); to spend money; (coll.) to pay wages

branch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge; to ramify; to subdivide

to pay in advance; to get payment in advance

(banking) to overdraw; to take out an overdraft; an overdraft; to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue); (old) to draw one's wage in advance; (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc); to damage a natural resource through overuse