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Sponsor

noun

Someone who supports or champions something. Synonyms: patron, supporter.

An advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.). Synonym: presenter.

verb

Assume sponsorship of. Synonyms: patronise, patronize.

Assume responsibility for or leadership of.

Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of. Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at.

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"Sponsor" Quotes from Famous Books

... my daughter. Sofia, Mrs. Waring has graciously offered to sponsor your introduction to Society, to guide and instruct you and be in every ...

— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance

... gate of the continent we begin the pageant of the Columbian Exposition. By the cruel irony of fate the promoters and sponsor of this great display cannot have any hand in the Fair. The Spaniards have a proverb that you can't at the same time ring the bell and be in the procession [laughter]; and although you can make Chicago a seaport by Act ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... seems to have held out an earnest of future favor to Sidney, by naming him amongst the noblemen and knights appointed to attend Philip of Spain to England for the completion of his nuptials; and this prince further honored him by becoming sponsor to his afterwards celebrated son and giving him his own name. But Sidney soon quitted a court in which a man of protestant principles could no longer reside with satisfaction, if with safety, and accompanied to Ireland his brother-in-law viscount Fitzwalter, then lord-deputy. ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... on schedule time in spite of strikes and lockouts, and another one of Hilmer, and a second photograph of a woman. Fred looked twice before he realized that the face of his wife was staring up at him from the printed sheet. Helen Starratt was to be the ship's sponsor and there was a pretty and touching story in this connection. It had always been Mrs. Hilmer's ambition to christen a seagoing giant, and she had been chosen to act as godmother to a huge oil-tanker only a ...

— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie

... for the present. She has made one provision which is that we are to take a quantity of pictures of the region while there, and that will certainly be an easy way of returning her kindness, especially since she stands sponsor for everything, and we are not limited to the ...

— Jack Winters' Campmates • Mark Overton

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