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# sponsor

noun (a sponsor, sponsors); verb (sponsor, sponsors, sponsored, sponsoring)

«sponsor» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A sponsor is a person or company that gives money to support an event, team or person, often to get their name shown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m1)
2. A sponsor is someone who promises to give money to charity if you do a task, like a sponsored walk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m2)
3. To sponsor is to give that money or support. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m3)
4. At a christening, a sponsor is a person who promises to help bring up a child in their faith. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m4)

### In the lessons

In school, children do sponsored walks, swims or silences: family and friends promise money for each lap or mile, and it goes to charity. In sport, team shirts show sponsors' names. In maths, sponsorship gives money problems: money = laps × amount per lap. Phrases: «a sponsored walk», «sponsor me», «sponsor form», «sponsored by».

### Examples

- Will you sponsor me for the charity swim? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x1)
- Grandad sponsored me one pound for every lap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x2)
- The football shirts show the sponsor's name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x3)
- Our school did a sponsored walk to raise money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x4)
- The show was sponsored by a toy company. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x5)
- I swam 20 lengths at 50 cents each, so my sponsor gave $10. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x6)
- I suppose the creature must be christened, but I don’t see how we are to ask anyone to be sponsor to him, and what are we to call him?’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x7)

### Note

Ends in «-or», not «-er». Noun: «sponsorship». In maths, total sponsor money = number of laps (or miles) × money per lap, plus any fixed amounts.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sponsor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sponsor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sponsor.html) on Mova free.