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

While unions representing teachers and firefighters front the opposition, billionaire donors are bankrolling parallel ballot measures to weaken or void the tax. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 Michelangelo, court artisans — all these things happened because someone was bankrolling them. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 18 Aug. 2026 Wall Street's largest banks are riding a lucrative new wave — bankrolling the AI gold rush. — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026 The man bankrolling it, John Middleton, was seated in the first row behind the Phillies’ dugout Friday. — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026 But the exact source of those dollars remains hidden, leaving voters in the dark about who is bankrolling the plan to overhaul the state’s tax structure. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrolling

Noun

In some cases, courts have ruled against the administration's grant funding cuts.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
With its latest funding, Kanin plans to scale waste heat-to-power and other on-site generation projects across North American heavy industry, focusing on energy costs, reliability and emissions.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of funding

Verb

The approval follows a group of Democratic lawmakers in March sounding the alarm about foreign investors financing the merger.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
The increase in the rate since then, of nearly 1 percentage point, translates roughly into an additional $255 monthly cost for a borrower financing a $400,000 home loan at the current average rate.

— Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of financing

Noun

Connecticut was among the few states helping to cover the loss of federal health insurance subsidies by earmarking millions of dollars to soften the blow for more than 150,000 Connecticut residents.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
But official data shows around 40 million people across the country still depend on government living subsidies.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of subsidy

Verb

The proposal is a significant departure from the original fund idea, which was created in the 1990s to help low-income parents remain active in the workforce by subsidizing childcare.

— Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2026
No one considers states subsidizing Tom Cruise’s salary an attempt to save good-paying middle-class jobs, like a grip or focus puller.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of subsidizing

Noun

Over the past five years, the endowment has gone up by about $7 million.

— Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Lawrence, who has represented Dior since 2012, will present the grand prize, which comes with a cash endowment of 400,000 euros and mentorship by the French luxury conglomerate’s teams.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of endowment

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