Definition of bankroll
: supply of money : funds
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Examples of bankroll in a Sentence
They started the business with a fairly small bankroll.
my total bankroll right now is $2,000
Recent Examples of bankroll from the Web
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His campaign bankroll includes $500 from Mac Churchill and $250 from Tarrant County Commissioner Gary Fickes, according to campaign finance records filed Jan. 15 that reflect donations through the end of 2017.
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Unlike the Jolie-Pitts, not all of them have the bankroll necessary to hire a top-tier attorney like Laura Wasser.
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And in a time before helmet laws were widespread and molecular body armor was standard, only a small group had the nerve and the bankroll to mount one.
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Notable bankroll names of today, such as Bill Gates ($101 billion), Sam Walton ($128 billion) and Queen Elizabeth ($43.4 billion), are further down on this list, which doesn't include Oprah Winfrey's $2.7 billion as enough to make the cut.
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This percentage can be much less, especially if your bankroll is higher.
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In order to combat this variance, DFS players should consider the following courses of action: Play a smaller portion of your overall bankroll than usual with a larger percentage of your money in play in GPPs.
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Stryker Phd, trained by Larry Ross for owners Jim and Mona Hour of Bellevue, won 11 of 33 starts, and his bankroll of $631,011 ranks third all time among horses bred in Washington.
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Players had to pay $2,000 to enter, which went to the prize pool, and had to have $5,000 for a live bankroll to wager.
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First Known Use of bankroll
1849
Definition of bankroll
: to supply money for (a business, project, or person)
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nounExamples of bankroll in a Sentence
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
Recent Examples of bankroll from the Web
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The latest financing will bankroll investments in parallel fields such as autonomous driving and augmented reality, cover the growing cost of AI talent and shore up its computing power.
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Flanking him were local officials, including a vice-mayor of Shenzhen, and the chairman and CEO of China's CheerLand Investment Group, which is bankrolling the effort to launch the center.
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Broidy bankrolled that conference and contributed to the financing of a second conference hosted on a similar theme in October by another think tank, the Hudson Institute.
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If approved, the money would bankroll various building improvements across the district, including a new building for Whitney Elementary School, which originally was built in 1929.
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Nathan is a wealthy Canadian philanthropist who helped bankroll her NGO.
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According to Vanity Fair, Norman Blachford, a wealthy retiree, had been bankrolling Cunanan's spending for a time, but Blachford cut off Cunanan in September 1996.
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Leyard bankrolled Planar's 2016 purchase of a Corvallis motion-capture company, NaturalPoint, for $125 million.
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If listening to us talk isn’t enough for you, here’s Rebecca’s story about the billionaire couple bankrolling the drug pricing debate.
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First Known Use of bankroll
1915
bankroll Synonyms
Synonyms
capitalize, endow, finance, fund, stake, subsidize, underwrite;
Antonyms
Related Words
advocate, aid, back, champion, endorse (also indorse), patronize, sponsor, support;
maintain, nourish, provide (for);
clear, defray, discharge, foot, liquidate, pay, pay off, pay up, quit, recompense, settle, spring (for), stand;
BANKROLL Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of bankroll for English Language Learners
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: to supply money for (a business, project, person, etc.)
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