sponsor
noun
a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
sponsorial
-
a word derived from
sponsor.
Example Sentences
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Among assorted reasons for suspecting things may not actually be that bad – Champions League group stage qualification, fresh sponsorial funds – is the makeup of the youthful fringes of this Arsenal team.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2012
Suffers slight drop in laughably excessive sponsorial earnings as a result.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2011
What is there, what can there be, in common with these widely severed classes, save that they equally enjoy Sir at the head and Bart. at the tail of their sponsorial and patronymic appellations?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
Kate—by this name we would distinguish her, as veritable historians are silent on her sponsorial appellation—Kate was unhappily fair and well-favoured.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
While we’re doing the sponsorial act, lunch will be prepared and ready for us to discuss during the next run.”
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick
