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noun

Sponsor n.

One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.

One who at the baptism of an infant professes the Christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.

A person who vouches for another as fit for some post or task; as, one needs two sponsors to be considered for membership.

A person or group that assumes financial responsibility for some activity, and may or may not participate in its organization and execution.

A person or organization, usually a commercial organization, which pays the cost of an activity, such as a radio or television broadcast, and in return is given the right to advertise itself or its products as part of the activity; as, now a word from our sponsor.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sponsor" Quotes from Famous Books

... for nearly four months to his great inconvenience, instead of pushing on to Florence and Rome. It had been some compensation that he had become extremely intimate with that most agreeable and superior person, Lord Belraven, who had consented to become sponsor to ...

— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge

... time been talking of his desire to become a Christian, if he could be efficiently protected against the seditions of his subjects. Louis welcomed with transport the prospect of Mussulman conversions. "Ah!" he cried, "if I could only see myself the gossip and sponsor of ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... less astute a world traveler than Samuel G. Blythe is sponsor for the assertion that the Berliners follow the night-life route because the Kaiser found his capital did not attract the tourist types to the extent he had hoped, and so decreed that his faithful and devoted subjects, leaving their cozy hearths and inglenooks, should go forth ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... Godparents because of the spiritual affinity created in Baptism when they undertake a responsibility almost parental in the future training of the baptized. In the Church of Rome Godparents may not intermarry. Anciently only one Sponsor was required. Their action at the font may be likened to that of those who brought the man sick of the palsy to our ...

— The Church Handy Dictionary • Anonymous

... I engage in an enterprise, it must not fail. The eye of the public is upon me, and I have my PRESTIGE to maintain. I have given you a great mark of confidence, for in lending you my influence I become, in some measure at least, your sponsor. But I cannot accept this great responsibility unless I am allowed absolute ...

— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

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