sponsor
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Latin sponsor (“‘a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptims’”) < sponsus, past participle of spondo
[edit] Noun
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sponsor (plural sponsors)
- A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
- He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.
- They were my sponsors for immigration.
- One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
- And now a word from our sponsor.
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- (one that pays the cost of event, media program): patron, underwriter
[edit] Translations
person or organisation with responsibility (especially with a religious or financial aspect)
One that pays all or part of the cost of an event)
[edit] Verb
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to sponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)
- (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
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to be a sponsor for
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[edit] External links
- sponsor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- sponsor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] French
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sponsor m. (plural sponsors)
[edit] Italian
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sponsor m. inv.
- sponsor (commercial)
