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support system

n.
A network of personal or professional contacts available to a person for practical or emotional support.
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Noun1.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"
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