Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun support_system

1 sense of support system

Sense 1
support system -- (a network of facilities and people who interact and remain in informal communication for mutual assistance; a network that enables you to live in a certain style)
       => network, web -- (an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth")