transcription, транскрипция: [ spɒnsə(r) ]
( sponsors, sponsoring, sponsored)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If an organization or an individual sponsors something such as an event or someone’s training, they pay some or all of the expenses connected with it, often in order to get publicity for themselves.
The competition was sponsored by Ruinart Champagne...
= finance
VERB : V n
2.
In Britain, if you sponsor someone who is doing something to raise money for charity, for example trying to walk a certain distance, you agree to give them a sum of money for the charity if they succeed in doing it.
Please could you sponsor me for my school’s campaign for Help the Aged?
VERB : V n
3.
If you sponsor a proposal or suggestion, you officially put it forward and support it.
Eight senators sponsored legislation to stop the military funding.
VERB : V n
4.
When a country or an organization such as the United Nations sponsors negotiations between countries, it suggests holding the negotiations and organizes them.
Given the strength of pressure on both sides, the superpowers may well have difficulties sponsoring negotiations...
VERB : V n
5.
If one country accuses another of sponsoring attacks on it, they mean that the other country does not do anything to prevent the attacks, and may even encourage them.
We have to make the states that sponsor terrorism pay a price.
= support
VERB : V n
6.
If a company or organization sponsors a television programme, they pay to have a special advertisement shown at the beginning and end of the programme, and at each commercial break.
Companies will now be able to sponsor programmes on ITV and Channel 4.
VERB : V n
7.
A sponsor is a person or organization that sponsors something or someone.
I understand Coca-Cola are to be named as the new sponsors of the League Cup later this week...
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