rooting interest

rooting interest

A strong desire to support a particular person or group. Primarily heard in US. My brother is a huge sports fan and has a rooting interest in all our local teams. I have a rooting interest in that candidate and am going to be campaigning for her.
See also: interest, root
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That certainly heightens my rooting interest, and I hope it does the same for you.
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for good and ill, the show revolves around frequently irritating protagonists that will present a challenge to viewers' rooting interest, but there are enough moments of sheer awkwardness and bawdy humor to make this a series a core audience should be able to like, if not, you know, love.
Love
Simian, which means you may have a rooting interest in this so-so drama with Zac Efron playing a dance-music DJ (or aspiring DJ).
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By upending well-established labor law and standards, the NLRB has walked away from its basic mission as an impartial arbiter in employer-employee relations and taken a clear rooting interest in outcomes that overwhelmingly favor organized labor at the expense of employers and employees.
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We want to widen the net by growing the sport and creating a rooting interest.
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But I know how much they love soccer and I don't think anything is going to get in the way of their rooting interest in a football team, or a soccer team, or whatever you want to call it.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM; NFL NEW ENGLAND v ST LOUIS; He has the looks, the money and the supermodel wife.. now all Brady wants is another Super Bowl for the Patriots
As a proud alumnus of two historically Black universities, I have a rooting interest in the collective success of HBCUs.
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I think there's a rooting interest for her," he added.
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He welcomed us into his home for dinner, invited us to local bar association functions, and developed a rooting interest in our intramural softball team.
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To endure that peculiar agony, season after season, requires something more than purely a rooting interest in the outcome.
A fan's lament
The intruder doesn't wear an athletic uniform or have a rooting interest, other than finding a portal of entry into the skin and causing unsightly infections, that, if not treated correctly, can be life-threatening.
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There was a real rooting interest in how France fared in the Great War.
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