bankroll

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noun bank·roll \ ˈbaŋk-ˌrōl \

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

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.

— seattle times staff, The Seattle Times, "Recently retired Stryker Phd is honored, Mach One Rules wins at Emerald Downs," 27 Aug. 2017
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.

— jeff nahill, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Handicapper turns $7,000 into $185,000," 1 Aug. 2017
Bee staff writers and horse players Debbie Arrington and Steve Pajak are renewing their head-to-head bankroll battle during the State Fair.

— debbie arrington and steve pajak, sacbee, "Money to burn at State Fair races? Here’s how we’d do it (hypothetically speaking)," 13 July 2017
Poker pro Adam Hendrix of Anchorage, who earlier this week bagged nearly $138,000 with a runner-up finish in a World Series of Poker event, has added some serious layers to his bankroll.

— Alaska Dispatch News, "Anchorage poker pro cashes in big again — nearly $56,000 this time," 30 June 2017
Karamanos had single-season highs of 237 wins and nearly $5.1 million in purse earnings in 2002, and his career bankroll has topped $50 million.

— baltimoresun.com, "Jockey Karamanos rides 2,000th career winner Sunday at Laurel Park," 18 June 2017
Like his predecessor at Goldman Sachs, former Democratic governor Jon Corzine, Murphy has spent a big portion of his bankroll on supporting other candidates and party organizations around the state, unsurprisingly harvesting a lot of endorsements.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "The Forgotten Race to Replace Chris Christie," 4 June 2017
In 2016, IshDARR punctuated his efforts with his project Broken Hearts and Bankrolls, highlighted by his growth on the mic and seamless beat selection, ultimately gaining a legion of fans.

— carl lamarre, Billboard, "Rising Rapper IshDARR Talks Milwaukee Roots & Acting Alongside Matthew McConaughey in Upcoming Movie 'White Boy Rick'," 31 May 2017
But a photo wasn’t needed to decide this one as Lady Eli scored her eighth victory in 11 lifetime starts to pad her career bankroll to $2,419,800.

— staff and news service reports, Orange County Register, "Lady Eli takes Gamely Stakes," 27 May 2017

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First Known Use of bankroll

1849

bankroll Synonyms

Synonyms

fund, coffers, exchequer, finances, pocket, resources, wherewithal

Related Words

shirt; bread [slang], cash, chips, currency, dough, gold, jack [slang], legal tender, lucre, pelf, scratch [slang], tender, wampum; assets, capital, deep pockets, fortune, means, opulence, riches, roll, substance, wealth; purse, treasury; cash flow; financing

Near Antonyms

debts, liabilities; indebtedness

bankroll

verb

Definition of bankroll

transitive verb

:to supply money for (a business, project, or person)

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bankroller

noun

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Examples of bankroll in a Sentence

several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical

Recent Examples of bankroll from the Web

That creditor, SQN Capital Management, wrote a Chinese solar trade group, offering to pull the plug on the case — which SQN is bankrolling — if the Chinese group would buy $55 million in Suniva equipment SQN got stuck with in the bankruptcy.

— evan halper, chicagotribune.com, "Will a trade fight with Asia sabotage the U.S. solar industry? That may be up to Trump," 16 Aug. 2017
Rep. Adam Jarchow (R-Balsam Lake) questioned why Foxconn should enjoy looser restrictions on wetlands when taxpayers will be bankrolling the incentives going to the company.

— rick romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Environmentalists criticize exemptions for Foxconn's $10 billion Wisconsin plant," 1 Aug. 2017
And rather than spotlighting small independent business, the Trump administration is highlighting a company that is bankrolled by the U.S. government.

— cam wolf, GQ, "Trump’s Made in America Week Shows Us Why Nothing Is Made in America Anymore," 19 July 2017
Luke also mentions that Joanna, wife Chuza, the manager of Herod's household, was bankrolling Jesus' ministry.

— greg garrison, AL.com, "Who paid Jesus' bills?," 19 July 2017
The movie was bankrolled by German pay TV group Sky and will air on one of its channels later this year.

— scott roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, "German Box Office: Top 10 Bow for 'Berlin Falling' With 'Game of Thrones' Star Tom Wlaschiha," 14 July 2017
But almost overnight, teams were reborn with resources to rival even the English Premier League teams bankrolled by Arab sheikhs and Russian oligarchs.

— tariq panja, Bloomberg.com, "Soccer Balls and China’s Billions," 13 July 2017
Baidu and Tencent have teamed up to bankroll Nio, a startup aiming to put autonomous electric vehicles on American and Chinese roads by 2020, which is now valued at $2.8 billion.

— reuters, Fortune, "Baidu Is Leading China’s Self-Driving Charge From Silicon Valley," 1 July 2017
Their business ventures included bankrolling the 2013 movie The Wolf of Wall Street via Aziz's production company, Red Granite, with money funneled through Goldman Sachs.

— jayme deerwester, USA TODAY, "Miranda Kerr turns over $8.1 in jewels ex bought with government funds," 27 June 2017