sponsor

From Latin sponsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”), from sponsus, past participle of spondeō

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspɒn.sə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspɑn.səɹ/

sponsor (plural sponsors)

1. 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.

   Hyponym: godparent

   He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.

   They were my sponsors for immigration.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     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.

   1. A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.

      My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.

2. One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.

   And now a word from our sponsor.

• (one that pays the cost of event, media program): patron, underwriter

sponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)

1. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     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.

• sponsorial
• sponsorship

• sponsor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sponsor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

sponsor c (singular definite sponsoren, plural indefinite sponsorer)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “sponsor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English sponsor.

• Audio

  (file)

sponsor m or f (plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)

1. sponsor

• financierder

sponsor

1. first-person singular present indicative of sponsoren
2. imperative of sponsoren

Borrowed from English sponsor.

• IPA^(key): /spɔ̃.sɔʁ/

sponsor m (plural sponsors)

1. sponsor offering financial support in sports, arts or cultural actions in exchange for notoriety

   Pour mieux trouver le commettant, ou le « sponsor » qui financera les travaux, le chercheur définit un programme, chiffré en temps et en argent. (L'Expansion, févr. 1972, p. 30, col. 2)

2. (Middle East business) sponsor cashing on foreign investors

   Vous voulez faire des affaires au Koweit ? Il faut d'abord trouver un sponsor, koweitien, savoir qu'il vous prendra un honnête pourcentage (13 à 15 %) mais refusera d'endosser le moindre risque et disparaîtra au premier accrochage. (Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 févr. 1974, p. 29, col. 2)

• (patron): commanditaire, mécène, parrain
• (Middle East business): caution, garant, répondant

• sponsorisation
• sponsoriser

• “sponsor” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• “sponsor” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor m (invariable)

1. sponsor (commercial)

From spondeō (“to promise”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.sor/, [ˈspõː.sɔr]

spōnsor m (genitive spōnsōris); third declension

1. a bondsman, surety

Third declension.

• sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sponsor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be security for some one: sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo
    
• sponsor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorer, definite plural sponsorene)

1. a sponsor

• sponse

• “sponsor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorar, definite plural sponsorane)

1. a sponsor

• sponse

• “sponsor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor m (plural sponsores)

1. sponsor

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor c

1. a sponsor

• sponsra
• sponsring