n. a roll or wad of currency; one's cash assets. : Don't show that bankroll around here!
tv. to finance something. : We were hoping to find somebody who would bankroll the project.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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All they see are the dollar signs on his bankroll, and the action he's willing to put down at the tables.
Nor would he have triumphed without getting the business oligarchs to bankroll his campaign.
Only an imperceptible portion of petrodollars bankroll terrorism, which is anyway quite cheap.
The feds are still going to bankroll conventional roads and highways and so forth.
The regimes that bankroll sovereign-wealth funds are often authoritarian and sometimes downright dangerous.
Those billions are typically used to bankroll private developers and low income housing projects.
The new system relies on private money to bankroll athletes once taken care of by the state.
Investors usually expect to bankroll several missions before getting a return on their investment.
And the company is backing the product with a fat bankroll.
Individual donors are unlikely to bankroll despots for strategic reasons, as governments do.