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plural sponsors, feminine sponsoress
A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect. quotations
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
A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him. quotations examples
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, page 173
One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time. examples
third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored
(transitive) To be a sponsor for. quotations examples
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