Definition of BANKROLLING

Synonyms & Antonyms for bankroll

Synonyms: Noun

Synonyms: Verb

Antonyms: Verb

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

Nor does comparing overflowing bankrolls to the earnings of unskilled or production workers, as the relative labor earnings measurement does. — Jo Craven Mcginty, WSJ, "Is Jeff Bezos Really the Richest of Them All?," 10 Aug. 2018 The same can be said by building that starting bankroll. — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, "You aren’t a pro, so don’t treat your bankroll like you are," 16 Apr. 2018 Stick around for a few hours and your bankroll will almost certainly be gone. — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, "Investors Can’t Get Enough of Wall Street’s Sucker’s Bets," 29 June 2018 His latest movie, which is also his first in 15 years, stars Keith Carradine and Sondra Locke as two down-on-their-luck people who each improbably stumble onto ample bankrolls. — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, "9 movies that lead the list of thought-provoking choices at the Cinetopia 2018 festival," 31 May 2018 On the topic of starting and running up a poker bankroll, there is no shortage of advice out there. — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, "You aren’t a pro, so don’t treat your bankroll like you are," 16 Apr. 2018 On Bye earned $34,827 for the win, pushing his career bankroll to $529,530 with a record of 7-19-10 from 56 starts. — baltimoresun.com, "Digest (June 2): Brigade beat by Albany Empire, 61-53," 2 June 2018 In 2016, George Soros, the philanthropist who’d later bankroll Krasner’s campaign, backed a dozen reform candidates, and ten of them won. — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, "Power of the Prosecutor," 24 May 2018 The party-wrangling has emerged despite Baker’s popularity in public polls and $7.9 million political bankroll that dwarfs all Democrats’ campaign funds combined. — Frank Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, "Charlie Baker has made great efforts to distance himself from Trump. His party? Not so much," 27 Apr. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

In 1902, White Star had become a property owned by the International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM), a holding company bankrolled by famed financier J.P Morgan. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "The Wild Conspiracy That the Titanic Never Sank," 27 Feb. 2019 Lamont, a wealthy businessman from Greenwich who is also bankrolling his own campaign, said $3. — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, "Politics and the Price of Milk," 14 July 2018 Mercer, a prominent donor to President Donald Trump who bankrolled Breitbart News and the political-data company Cambridge Analytica, served as a Lake Arthur reserve officer from 2011 to 2017, according to department records. — Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, "Tiny Town Shuts Police Program That Gave Robert Mercer a Badge," 10 Apr. 2018 In December 2014, a Russian hacker group named Shaltai Boltai released a trove of emails linking top Syriza leaders with Dugin and Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, who has bankrolled the separatist movement in Ukraine. — Owen Matthews, Newsweek, "The Kremlin's Campaign to Make Friends," 16 Feb. 2015 The Queen also bankrolls several family members, including her children Andrew, Anne, and Edward, as well as the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, who, like William and Harry, are official working royals. — David Mcclure, Town & Country, "How Queen Elizabeth's Fortune Is Divided Among the Members of the Royal Family," 16 Feb. 2019 Would a payment almost certainly bankroll future terrorist attacks? — Ann Toews, WSJ, "‘We Want to Negotiate’ Review: Deal or No Deal," 21 Jan. 2019 That study was bankrolled by Fitzgerald's business. — Evan Halper, latimes.com, "EPA used disavowed research to justify putting dirtier trucks on the road," 29 May 2018 Early Stages of BFR Yusaku, helping to bankroll this mission, will be among an elite—and formerly wholly white—rank, as just 24 people have landed on or orbited the moon. — Condé Nast Traveler, "SpaceX Announcement: Yusaku Maezawa Is First Tourist to Fly to the Moon," 17 Sep. 2018

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