DONORS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

donors

noun

plural of donor

as in donators

one that helps another with gifts or money a list of donors in the charitable foundation's annual report

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Recent Examples of donors What donors and kids get Another potential upside for donors is a whole new class of shareholders, Gentry said. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 Many of her other donors work in social work, education, healthcare, business or are retired. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026 Thompson lodged criticisms for Jones’ Silicon Valley donors, shifting policy positions and associations with healthcare companies that were fined for denying care. — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026 People connected to Democratic fundraising tell CNBC some major donors remain wary after Harris’ 2024 presidential defeat. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 Sonia Ben Jaafar, CEO of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation, told Semafor that private donors from the Gulf want to be more involved in designing development programs rather than simply financing them. — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026 They're taken from either healthy donors or the patients, and then grown, altered, or engineered, to be delivered back into the patient's body. — Max Darrow, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 One funder said its supporters included an invite-only group of four or five dozen donors who gather for dinner twice a year. — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2026

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Noun

That’s the gold standard of cancer designations that allows patients and donators alike to understand Sylvester’s standards.

— Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026

Definition of donators

Noun

Democratic divide As Republican donors open their wallets, some of Democrats’ biggest benefactors are missing from the DNC’s donor rolls.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Harvard and its peer institutions won’t suddenly stop caring about their largest benefactors.

— Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of benefactors

Noun

Miuccia Prada is one of the world’s great patrons of contemporary art.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 9 Oct. 2026
For all its flowering of original thought and creativity, the Renaissance was ultimately a time of patronage, and the patrons both held the power and used it to enrich their own palaces and places of worship.

— Christopher Koopman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

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