sponsor

CEFRB1

/ˈspɒn.səː/

verb · noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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A 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.
A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.

In context

He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.
My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.
They were my sponsors for immigration.

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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
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
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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Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).