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noun

ˈspän(t)-sər How to pronounce sponsor (audio)
Definition of sponsornext
as in patron
a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing you'll need a sponsor to recommend you in order to get into the exclusive country club

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verb

as in to fund

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Recent Examples of sponsor
Noun
The legal and regulatory commentary on the FDA's December 2025 final guidance on real-world evidence (RWE) for medical devices has focused on what the guidance asks sponsors to prove. — David Talby, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Dallas has re-upped several of its biggest sponsors over the past year, and the club’s $300 million in annual sponsorship revenue is nearly twice that of any other team. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
Multi-brand giant Stellantis’s chairman John Elkann and former Renault CEO Luca de Meo had urged the European Union to sponsor a new class of small cars, modelled on Kei cars, small but built to strong safety standards. — Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Some start side hustles out of their dorm room, convince their company to sponsor an advanced degree or apply to hundreds of scholarships. — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sponsor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsor
  1. patron
  2. fund
  3. supporter
  4. finance
  5. benefactor
  6. underwrite
  7. set up
  8. patronize
Noun
  • On Friday, patrons for three Smithsonian museums within the track’s perimeter — Air and Space, Natural History and American Indian — will need to pass through metal detectors.
    — Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In addition, each does so differently, because every library responds to what its patrons need.
    — Michael Fassnacht, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of patron
Verb
  • Nvidia would supply computing hardware through the chip arrangement instead of directly funding construction.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Unfreezing these assets is one of the main bargaining chips in talks with Western governments, with the ban on girls’ education a key sticking point – meaning the very money that once funded that schooling is now being withheld to try to restore it.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of fund
Noun
  • Russia, along with China, is a major supporter and arms supplier to Myanmar.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • It was drafted with tenant input and by a diverse coalition of community supporters.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of supporter
Verb
  • Before 2021, foreign aid financed roughly three-quarters of public expenditures.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But so far, the US has stopped short of targeting the major Chinese banks that finance the trade.
    — Magdalena Del Valle, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of finance
Noun
  • The Pinell Collection focuses on African American literature and is named after a local benefactor.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • After Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s popular Democratic governor, endorsed Stevens last week, El-Sayed explained the choice as the inevitable product of the two women’s benefactors.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Definition of benefactor
Verb
  • Within a few weeks, Iran managed to damage, destroy, or render irrelevant large parts of the archipelago of military bases that had underwritten American primacy in the Middle East.
    — MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The businesses that teach the market how to underwrite them will be the ones the machines cite when the market asks how.
    — Camden Kaminsky, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of underwrite
Verb
  • Loewe's Harrods space is set up to showcase the brand's philosophy of technology designed to integrate seamlessly into contemporary living environments.
    — John Archer, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • There are also regulatory hurdles to overcome in every community where Amazon wants to set up operations.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of set up
Verb
  • As early as the 1920s, Coco Chanel patronized Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company, famously designing the costumes for Le Train Bleu, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and premiered in 1924.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Beaverbrook is a five-star country house hotel that was once patronized by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and other 20th-century celebrities.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of patronize

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