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sponsor

[spon-ser]

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noun

a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.

a person, firm, organization, etc., that finances and buys the time to broadcast a radio or television program so as to advertise a product, a political party, etc.

a person who makes a pledge or promise on behalf of another.

a person who answers for an infant at baptism, making the required professions and assuming responsibility for the child's religious upbringing; godfather or godmother.

verb (used with object)

to act as sponsor for; promise, vouch, or answer for.

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Origin:
1645–55; < Latin spōnsor guarantor, equivalent to spond(ēre) to pledge + -tor -tor, with dt > s

Related forms

spon·so·ri·al

[spon-sawr-ee-uhl, -sohr-] , adjective

spon·sor·ship, noun

un·spon·sored, adjective

Synonyms
1. patron, backer; guarantor. 2. advertiser. 5. guarantee, finance, back, underwrite.

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Example Sentences

Four represent the sponsor and five are unit owners.

Sponsor student organizations and participate fully in department committees and community outreach.

What you read here is commentary by this debate's sponsor.

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Four represent the sponsor and five are unit owners.

Sponsor student organizations and participate fully in department committees and community outreach.

What you read here is commentary by this debate's sponsor.

Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors or for technical malfunctions of any kind.

Afterward, both men and women indicate to the sponsor if they would be interested in seeing any of the others again.

Native entrepreneurs own skateboard companies and sponsor community-based skate teams.

The first television show to have a commercial sponsor debuts.

Others sponsor book clubs, give lectures to community art and literary groups, or write columns for the newspaper.

Also, you claim that these children will sponsor other family members back home.

Sponsor targeted training in these green initiatives of new hires and refreshers for existing employees.

SoundExchange is listed as a sponsor on the homepage of the organization's web site.

Each faculty sponsor is limited to nominate one candidate each year.

The stability pact would surely wither if its chief sponsor defied it for a fourth year running.

The offering plan provides that the sponsor will retain control of the.

It will also sponsor annual conferences and a set of networking resources designed to accelerate development and deployment.

The quake forced that project to shut down, and its sponsor had to make millions of dollars in payments for damaged buildings.

To discover, display and protect the world's antiquities, museums should sponsor excavations.

Other towns sponsor picnic dinners or other events for the riders.

However, students must earn a mentor's effort to advocate for and sponsor him or her.

To prevent that would effectively be penalizing those who sponsor the site.

Others let professors sponsor independent studies based on internships.

Under rules that came in last month, employers and colleges must join an official register to sponsor work or student visas.

My main sponsor was hit by the financial crisis and couldn't continue funding me after a year and a half.

Often, the connection between the departments and the programs they've been told to sponsor can be pretty tenuous.

Governments and cultural organizations sponsor students to come to their countries to restore their art and excavate history.

So-called godfathers sponsor aspiring politicians in return for promised shares of government money.

It almost seems as though there may have been some pre-established relationship between the sponsor of the spam and nenastnyj.

It's not a big leap from these uncontested claims to say that sports create a market for the colleges that sponsor them.

Volunteer to serve on committees, sponsor student organizations, grade departmental exams-whatever.

People who embark on higher degrees take out a commercial bank loan, find an indulgent sponsor or earn the money first.

Even with a degree she'll have a hard time getting someone to employ her without having to sponsor her.

Private businesses, long absent from education, now sponsor scholarships and university chairs.

His obligation to the study and its corporate sponsor could have caused him to overlook his patient's safety.

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World English Dictionary

sponsor (ˈspɒnsə)

—n
1.	a person or group that provides funds for an activity, esp
	a. a commercial organization that pays all or part of the cost of putting on a concert, sporting event, etc
	b. a person who donates money to a charity when the person requesting the donation has performed a specified activity as part of an organized fund-raising effort
2.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) a person or business firm that pays the costs of a radio or television programme in return for advertising time
3.	a legislator who presents and supports a bill, motion, etc
4.	Also called: godparent
	a. an authorized witness who makes the required promises on behalf of a person to be baptized and thereafter assumes responsibility for his Christian upbringing
	b. a person who presents a candidate for confirmation
5.	chiefly (US) a person who undertakes responsibility for the actions, statements, obligations, etc, of another, as during a period of apprenticeship; guarantor

—vb
6.	(tr) to act as a sponsor for

[C17: from Latin, from spondēre to promise solemnly]

sponsorial

—*adj*

'sponsorship

—n

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Word Origin & History

sponsor

1651, from L.L. sponsor "sponsor in baptism," in L. "a surety, guarantee," from sponsus, pp. of spondere "give assurance, promise solemnly" (see spondee). Sense of "person who pays for a radio (or, after 1947, TV) program" is first recorded 1931. The verb is attested from

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1884, "to favor or support;" commercial broadcasting sense is from 1931.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

sponsor

one who stands surety for another in the rite of Christian baptism. In the modern baptism of an infant or child the godparent or godparents make profession of faith for the person being baptized (the godchild) and assume an obligation to serve as proxies for the parents if the parents either are unable or neglect to provide for the religious training of the child, in fulfillment of baptismal promises. In churches mandating a sponsor only one godparent is required; two (in most churches, of different sex) are permitted. Many Protestant denominations permit but do not require godparents to join the infant's natural parents as sponsors. In the Roman Catholic Church godparents must be of the Catholic faith.

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