sponsored
- 1Simple past and past participle of sponsor.
The foundation sponsored three students through college.
The research was sponsored by a pharmaceutical company.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: the simple past (the foundation sponsored three students) and the participle after have or in the passive. Because sponsor is transitive, the passive is common, and a by-phrase names whoever pays or takes responsibility. The participle also stands before a noun as an adjective, as in a sponsored walk, marking an event that someone has agreed to back.
Three colleagues did a sponsored walk of twelve miles along the canal.
The charity is holding a sponsored swim next month.
sponsored is a form of sponsor
sponsor, verb: To act as a sponsor for a person, organization, event, or program. Full entry
- Forms
- sponsorsponsors he/she/itsponsoring -ing formsponsored past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- sponsor → sponsored: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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