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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Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
Musk, who helped bankroll OpenAI, launched a rival for-profit AI company in 2023 called xAI, which built a chatbot that competes with ChatGPT.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 May 2026
Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
Taxpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 12 June 2026
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Noun
Multiple survivors of Frederick von Mierers' Eternal Values cult are featured in the docuseries, though none more prominently than Hoyt Richards, a former model who used his fame and success to help bankroll von Mierers' enterprise before eventually escaping his clutches.
—Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
Musk, who helped bankroll OpenAI, launched a rival for-profit AI company in 2023 called xAI, which built a chatbot that competes with ChatGPT.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 May 2026
Verb
The deal is bankrolled by Trump ally Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle, whose son David Ellison became CEO of Paramount through a merger last year.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
Taxpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve.
—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 12 June 2026
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“Bankroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bankroll. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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