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# sponsorship

noun (sponsorship — uncountable; a sponsorship, sponsorships)

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

## Everyday

1. Sponsorship is money or support that a person or company gives to pay for an event, team or activity, often to advertise their name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#m1)
2. Sponsorship is also money people promise to give to charity if you complete a challenge, like a sponsored walk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#m2)
3. Sponsorship can mean officially supporting someone, such as a person moving to a new country or a member joining a club. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#m3)

### In the lessons

In sport and school events, sponsorship explains why a company's logo is on football shirts. At school children collect sponsorship for a sponsored run or read-a-thon. In money lessons sponsorship is a deal: the sponsor pays and gets advertising. Phrases: get sponsorship, sponsorship deal, under the sponsorship of.

### Examples

- Our football team got sponsorship from the local bakery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x1)
- I raised forty pounds in sponsorship for the charity swim. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x2)
- The concert was paid for by sponsorship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x3)
- The company ended its sponsorship of the race. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x4)
- My uncle signed a big sponsorship deal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x5)
- We need sponsorship to buy new instruments for the band. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x6)
- Gran gave me sponsorship for every lap I ran. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x7)

### Note

Usually uncountable (much sponsorship), but «a sponsorship deal» or «sponsorships» is fine. The person or firm that pays is a «sponsor». In maths problems «a sponsorship of 2 pounds per lap» means multiply the laps by 2.

## On Mova

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