bankroll

1 of 2

noun

bank·​roll ˈbaŋk-ˌrōl How to pronounce bankroll (audio)
: supply of money : funds

bankroll

2 of 2

verb

bankrolled; bankrolling; bankrolls

transitive verb

: 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
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Sign up today to get up to $1,000 in bonuses and bet on the next fight with a boosted bankroll. Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024 DeSantis has threatened to veto any effort by Florida lawmakers to have the state bankroll Trump's legal bills. John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024 The live casino section gives you access to baccarat, Super 6, roulette, and over 30 real money blackjack tables with buy-ins perfect for every bankroll. Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024 Trump donor bankrolls pro-RFK Jr. super PAC Notably, one of Trump's top donors continued to bankroll a Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-aligned super PAC. Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024 Before wagering real money, take advantage of these free play options to get familiar with features and find the ones worth giving a try without risking your bankroll. Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024 And with entry costs set up for all bankrolls, everyone will be able to get in on the action. Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024 But there is no indication that funding is heading Blue Star’s way, even as HHS bankrolls the entirely new NBR plant in Louisiana with another company, SafeSource. Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023 Progressed from loafing here and there with scant dollars in my pocket, to swaggering to and fro with a bankroll swelling my sock. Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
Verb
Beef and soybean exports have bankrolled a construction boom, transforming the capital’s skyline, but destroying swaths of Paraguay’s biodiverse forests. Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024 The American Property Casualty Insurance Assn., the nation’s largest insurance lobbying group, bankrolled a new website attacking Consumer Watchdog in late 2023. Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024 Now the Republican donor class is confronting a reality its wealthy members had hoped to avoid: being limited to exerting their clout in the 2024 election cycle only through state-level races, lest they be forced to bankroll Donald Trump’s White House comeback bid. Amanda Gordon, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024 Lopez subsequently decides to bankroll the project herself — an endeavor which Affleck observes is historically risky in Hollywood. Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 Feb. 2024 Meanwhile, Singapore is funding a US $52 million open-source development effort for Southeast Asia, and the UAE continues to bankroll some of the largest available open generative AI models. IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2024 And when La Femme Nikita director Luc Besson fulfilled a childhood fantasy in 2017 by bankrolling Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets out of his own pocket, the most expensive independent movie ever made landed with the thud of a global box office bomb. Ernesto Lechner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024 Tomorrow California — a committee bankrolled by PG&E, the California correctional officers’ union and the California Building Industry Association — spent nearly $45,000 on mailers touting Krell’s career accomplishments. Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 15 Feb. 2024 The hedge fund that bankrolled P.&I.D.’s defense in London, VR Capital, stood to make a profit if the verdict had gone its way. Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1849, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1915, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bankroll was in 1849

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“Bankroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bankroll. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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bankroll

noun
bank·​roll
ˈbaŋk-ˌrōl
: supply of money : funds

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