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noun

plural of sponsor
as in patrons
a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing you'll need a sponsor to recommend you in order to get into the exclusive country club

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sponsor
as in funds

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Recent Examples of sponsors
Noun
China International Capital Corporation and Deutsche Bank served as the joint sponsors for the Hong Kong debut. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 8 July 2026 Official Sponsors Need Engagement By comparison, several official sponsors have struggled precisely because their campaigns feel overly scripted, one of the themes highlighted by marketing specialists at The Revival Agency. — Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Among the sponsors was then-state legislator Mike Kreidler, a Democrat and optometrist who served 16 years in the Legislature and 24 as insurance commissioner. — Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 8 July 2026 Corporate sponsors have backed Liga El Dorado, according to Sanchez, but the league must first receive approval from the Colombian Football Federation in order to operate. — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 7 July 2026 That’ll teach the Padres for increasing baseball’s appeal to fans and ballpark sponsors. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026 The show is produced by V10 Entertainment, whom Reeves praises for playing a key role in helping to find sponsors and working closely with Moto America. — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026 Bordewich says about 20% of the American population visited Philadelphia, mostly via direct passenger service provided by the Pennsylvania Railroad — one of the fair's biggest sponsors. — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 1 July 2026 Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, one of the measure’s sponsors, claimed in a phone interview that California does not send ballots to people who have since left the state of California, which could influence elections. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsors
  1. patrons
  2. funds
  3. supporters
  4. stakes
  5. benefactors
  6. finances
  7. underwrites
  8. patronizes
Noun
  • In some countries, such as Japan, tipping can even be viewed as awkward, inappropriate, and unnecessary as patrons eat, pay the bill, and simply leave.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Ross will be helping select and convince audience members to join her in the show, wandering the aisles to chat as patrons first file in.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026
Definition of patrons
Verb
  • The National Science Foundation jointly funds and operates the observatory with the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Established in 2014, the Frieze London Artist Award honors artists at a crucial point in their careers and funds the realization of a new work to be presented at the London fair.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 7 July 2026
Definition of funds
Noun
  • The event is open to #LatinaGeeks members, allies and supporters.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
  • Duplass Brothers Productions is one of the original supporters of the fund, which was created to support micro-budget feature filmmaking by transgender creators.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Definition of supporters
Verb
  • Dar Zéro founder Brigid Smith stakes her claim on bohemian style, blending gritty luxury with elevated, global influences.
    — Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The Arab Republic of Egypt (1953) stakes a natural claim to the Rosetta Stone, which was commissioned in 196 BCE by a Greek-speaking pharaoh of Macedonian descent, and unearthed near Alexandria by French engineers in 1799.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Definition of stakes
Noun
  • And then from behind him came Miuccia Prada, the co-creative director and owner of her namesake brand, one of the world’s great art collectors and high-cultural benefactors.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
  • The question is, will their billionaire benefactors be so quick to write checks this time after coming up short again.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 5 June 2026
Definition of benefactors
Verb
  • Read on for your June career and finances horoscope according to your zodiac sign.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Taxes from tabs go to the state Highway User Tax Distribution Fund, which finances Minnesota’s highway system.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
Definition of finances
Verb
  • An investor who underwrites to the seller's tax line rather than the post-sale reassessment is buying a cap rate that will never actually exist for them.
    — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Goldman advises hyperscalers, underwrites chip company offerings, and sits at the table with the companies building the very infrastructure Covello was interrogating.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Definition of underwrites
Verb
  • Liam, the brother who clearly wanted this reunion the most, and wore the inability to re-consummate the brotherly relationship like an open wound, is still given mostly to jokes on stage more than serious statements or anything that patronizes the audience.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Definition of patronizes

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