0 past simple and past participle of bankroll --
1 to support a person or activity financially: --
Wark used his share of the cash to help pay for his wedding while a team-mate bankrolled a house extension.
Smalley, who also composed and plays the piano soundtrack, and his gang bankrolled the $70,000 film by selling on-screen credits for $10 each and having a hometown barbecue fundraiser.
The high school was built in 1923 at a cost of $4 million, bankrolled by the mining industry, which wanted to make the move more palatable for those being displaced.
Anderson bankrolled many early private space ventures and paved the way for the astropreneurs who followed.
More significantly, while he has largely bankrolled the team during the first years of his tenure as president, he is committed to making the club self-supporting.
He made large contributions to his church, and single-handedly bankrolled a haven for wayward teenagers.
Recruits to the force were usually personally wealthy, providing their own horses and uniforms, and units were often heavily bankrolled by their senior officers.
He also bankrolled the construction of one of the university's dorms, named for his wife.
