sponsor
Pluralsponsors
Verbsponsors, sponsoring, sponsored
Pluralsponsors
Formssponsors, sponsoring, sponsored
- 1A person or company that pays for an event or show, often to get advertising in return.
Like a company that pays for a free concert so people will see its name everywhere.
A local bank became the main sponsor of the music festival.
The cooking show lost its biggest sponsor last month.
Similarpatron, underwriter
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- 2To take on the role of a sponsor for a person, group, or event.
A big phone company agreed to sponsor the school's science fair.
They sponsor several young athletes each year.
Similarfund, finance, back, underwrite, support
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- 3A person or group who takes responsibility for someone else, often in a religious, legal, or money matter.
Like someone who promises to look after a newcomer and answer for them.
She agreed to be the sponsor for her nephew at his baptism.
Every new member needs a sponsor who will sign for them.
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- 4An experienced member of a recovery program who guides and supports a newer member.
Like an older student who helps a new student find their way.
Her sponsor called every night during the hardest weeks of recovery.
He asked an older member to be his sponsor in the program.
Similarmentor
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Origin
It comes from the Latin word spōnsor, which meant a person who gives a guarantee, and later a godparent at baptism.