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
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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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Bee staff writers and horse players Debbie Arrington and Steve Pajak are renewing their head-to-head bankroll battle during the State Fair.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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First Known Use of bankroll
1849
bankroll Synonyms
Synonyms
fund, coffers, exchequer, finances, pocket, resources, wherewithalRelated 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; financingNear Antonyms
debts, liabilities; indebtednessDefinition of bankroll
transitive verb
:to supply money for (a business, project, or person)
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bankroller
nounExamples of bankroll in a Sentence
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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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.
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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.
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And rather than spotlighting small independent business, the Trump administration is highlighting a company that is bankrolled by the U.S. government.
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Luke also mentions that Joanna, wife Chuza, the manager of Herod's household, was bankrolling Jesus' ministry.
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The movie was bankrolled by German pay TV group Sky and will air on one of its channels later this year.
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But almost overnight, teams were reborn with resources to rival even the English Premier League teams bankrolled by Arab sheikhs and Russian oligarchs.
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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.
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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.
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First Known Use of bankroll
1915
bankroll Synonyms
Synonyms
finance, capitalize, endow, fund, stake, subsidize, underwriteAntonyms
defundRelated Words
grubstake; cofinance, refinance; 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; refundBANKROLL Defined for English Language Learners
bankroll
verb
Definition of bankroll for English Language Learners
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: to supply money for (a business, project, person, etc.)
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