BANKROLLING Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

bankrolling 1 of 2

noun

as in funding

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bankrolling

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verb

present participle of bankroll

as in financing

to provide money for several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical

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defunding

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Recent Examples of bankrolling

Noun

Just last week, the utilities spent $10 million against me, joining Big Oil’s bankrolling of my opponents. — Tom Steyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026 As recently as this summer, Robinson boasted about his role in co-creating, bankrolling, and starring in Legacy of Lies, an action movie headlined by John Wick martial artist Scott Adkins. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025

Verb

Allies include Brin’s Building a Better California, which is bankrolling two counter-measures aimed at undermining the billionaire tax. — Ben Paviour july 2, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026 Northanger Limited was founded in October 2024 with producers bankrolling development from private funds worth £300,000. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 June 2026 If the superfund template survives, the next decade of American energy policy will be written by trial lawyers, attorneys general and a handful of out-of-state philanthropies bankrolling the litigation pipeline. — Yaël Ossowski, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026 Purkis said Caulfeild is bankrolling the business — at least initially. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 18 May 2026 Governments spend more than $700 billion a year subsidising agriculture, much of it bankrolling the very fertilizers and fossil fuel inputs that make farming so exposed to price shocks. — Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026 Meantime the future beyond this year of Tour rival LIV Golf is in jeopardy as doubts arise whether the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia will continue bankrolling the league. — Greg Cote april 19, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2026 In his first mission as 007, Bond engages in a high-stakes poker game with bankrupt terrorist Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) but falls tragically in love with Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), the British treasury agent bankrolling his game. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026 Not everyone agrees the government should be in the business of bankrolling early-stage firms. — Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrolling

Noun

Google has also been involved both as a research partner and through funding.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
In May, the IMF said AI is changing how the financial system deals with vulnerabilities and incidents, and that extreme cyber losses could trigger funding stress, solvency concerns and wider market disruption.

— Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of funding

Verb

This leads central bankers to ask who is financing the build out, and the long-term stability in doing so.

— Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Examples range from financing community cooling centers and supporting ecosystem restoration to helping smallholder farmers in supply chains adopt practices such as crop diversification and rainwater storage that build resilience to drought.

— Sylvain Johansson, Fortune, 7 July 2026

Definition of financing

Noun

Health policy experts said the drop-off is the clearest sign yet that the lapse of federal subsidies for ACA premiums is making insurance too expensive for many Americans, leading many households to drop their coverage.

— Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Unlike their American counterparts, Chinese firms often benefit from subsidies, tax incentives, access to launch facilities, and investments from provincial governments.

— Rainer Zitelmann, Fortune, 2 July 2026

Definition of subsidy

Verb

To acknowledge this calculation, platforms should group rides and deliveries into tight, localized clusters instead of heavily subsidizing long, isolated routes, in recognition that drivers prioritize route efficiency.

— Christopher S. Tang, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
But taxpayers should not be subsidizing corporate labor costs while Washington walks away from its commitments.

— Dave Cortese, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Definition of subsidizing

Noun

What was once a niche institutional strategy has become a significant allocation in endowment, pension, and family office portfolios, and the asset class is increasingly accessible to high-net-worth individual investors through new structures.

— Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
But this anniversary year, the endowment has placed a particular emphasis on national pride.

— Chloe Veltman, NPR, 10 July 2026

Definition of endowment

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