0 (of a business or other organization) to pay for someone to do something or for something to happen: --
Eva said she was doing a ten-mile walk for charity and asked if I'd sponsor her.
The team is sponsored by JVC, so the players wear the letters JVC on their shirts.
BMW has plenty of practice sponsoring golf tournaments in Europe.
His organization sponsored the study.
The participants' employers sponsor them for the six-month training program.
1 to write a bill (= a formal statement of a planned new law) and try to get people to vote for it: --
2 to organize talks between different groups: --
It was the first time that the USA had officially sponsored negotiations between the two sides.
The World Health Organization sponsored talks on an international convention meant to reduce smoking and tobacco-related disease.
3 to officially take responsibility for someone else's actions: --
4 a person or company that supports a person, organization, or activity by giving money: --
The children have been collecting sponsors for their swimathon.
How many sponsors have you got?
The players wore shirts with the sponsor's logo on the front.
All the major theatres now have sponsors, especially for high-cost productions.
5 someone who writes a bill (= a formal statement of a planned new law) and tries to get people to vote for it: --
I commend the bill 's sponsor for introducing such necessary legislation.
The underlying dependence of the post-colonial bourgeoisie upon metropolitan sponsors remains unchanged.
The journal also publishes abstracts and proceedings on behalf of academic and corporate sponsors.
All three countries are currently sponsoring projects to develop more comprehensive and publishable quality data.
Before the child's birth, the sponsoring father filed for divorce and sought to avoid support obligations for the child.
They were sponsored by each tax administration following internal specific goals.
The emperor also sponsored large-scale scholarly projects to map the region, classify its peoples and write its definitive history.
As a consequence, much of the research sponsored by government remained atheoretical and often unco-ordinated.
An interested reader might wonder who or what sponsored or funded the 'education program' and seek further information.
