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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

... cordial welcome. The brother-in-arms of the Margrave Karl, he was the esteemed friend of the Margravine, the exalted and beautiful Theodora of Boppum, and (albeit no theologian, and although the first princes of Christendom coveted such an honor,) he was selected to stand as sponsor for the Margrave's son Otto, the only child ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... was delighted to comply with her request, and promised that the tournament should be arranged to take place in a very short while; then, kissing the hand of his fair sponsor, he asked for one of her sleeves. When the lady gave him the favor he treasured it carefully, intending that it should be the victor's prize in ...

— With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene

... took his seat, he was appointed chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories, and so kept the role of sponsor for young commonwealths which he had begun to play in the House. No other public man has ever had so much to do with the organizing of Territories and the admitting of States into the Union; probably no other man ever so completely mastered all the details of such legislation. ...

— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown

... A great international house, Margot—the secret is an open one—is but the incognita of a business-like English countess who finds it financially profitable to sign articles on costume written by someone else, and be sponsor for the newest fashions which someone else designs. As a way of turning an impoverished historic title to account it is as good as ...

— The Dust Flower • Basil King

... these truculent, semi-savage bacchanals got their whiskey, and both men promptly and confidently declared it wasn't at the store. Neither of them would give or sell to either halfbreed a drop, and old Wilkins stood sponsor for the integrity of the affiants, both of whom he had known for years and both of whom intimated that the two specimens had no need to be begging, buying or stealing whiskey, when Bill Hay's private cellar held more than enough to fill the ...

— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

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