Sponsor Meaning
/ˈspɒn.səː/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
nounA person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect., A senior member of a twelve step or similar program chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them.
Sentence Examples
And the banquet sponsor tasted the water, which had turned into wine.
All the expenses will fall on the sponsor.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The main ____ of the race donated thousands of dollars for the event.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local bank decided to ____ the school's soccer team by providing new uniforms for all the players.
Word Origin & History
Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone."
— 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
"Members also choose a sponsor, with whom they are supposed to remain in regular, even daily, contact—and that, too, is a powerful boost for monitoring."
— 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 173:
"Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth."
— 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The main ____ of the race donated thousands of dollars for the event.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local bank decided to ____ the school's soccer team by providing new uniforms for all the players.