sponsor · verb
Meanings and examples
To pay for an event or activity, often in return for publicity.
A local bank agreed to sponsor the exhibition for its first three months.
Several businesses are sponsoring the festival and will display their names near the stage.
The company sponsored a series of workshops on skills for young jobseekers.
We are looking for organisations willing to sponsor the community sports programme.
Forms
- sponsor base form
- sponsors third-person singular present
- sponsored past tense; past participle
- sponsoring present participle