bankrolled; bankrolling; bankrolls
: to supply money for (a business, project, or person)
bankroller
noun
Examples of bankroll in a Sentence
Noun
They started the business with a fairly small bankroll.
my total bankroll right now is $2,000
Verb
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Authoritarian powers exploit these fissures: Russia bankrolls and amplifies extremist movements, China exports surveillance tools, and both flood their Western adversaries with disinformation.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2025
Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
By contrast, the new project—bankrolled by Big Tech firms and crypto moguls—is one of excess and self-advertisement.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Think of this promo as an opportunity to start building a bankroll on FanDuel Sportsbook.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Authoritarian powers exploit these fissures: Russia bankrolls and amplifies extremist movements, China exports surveillance tools, and both flood their Western adversaries with disinformation.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
Foster said the end result of the funding shortfall is that defense attorneys taking under-market rates to represent low-income defendants have ended up bankrolling the federal government.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
By contrast, the new project—bankrolled by Big Tech firms and crypto moguls—is one of excess and self-advertisement.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Bankroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bankroll. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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