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# sponsor

«sponsor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or company that gives money to support an event…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sponsor, sponsors); verb (sponsor, sponsors, sponsored, sponsoring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sponsor is a person or company that gives money to support an event, team or person, often to get their name shown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m1)

2) A sponsor is someone who promises to give money to charity if you do a task, like a sponsored walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m2)

3) To sponsor is to give that money or support. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m3)

4) At a christening, a sponsor is a person who promises to help bring up a child in their faith. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school, children do sponsored walks, swims or silences: family and friends promise money for each lap or mile, and it goes to charity. In sport, team shirts show sponsors' names. In maths, sponsorship gives money problems: money = laps × amount per lap. Phrases: «a sponsored walk», «sponsor me», «sponsor form», «sponsored by».

### examples

- Will you sponsor me for the charity swim? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x1)
- Grandad sponsored me one pound for every lap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x2)
- The football shirts show the sponsor's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x3)
- Our school did a sponsored walk to raise money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x4)
- The show was sponsored by a toy company. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x5)
- I swam 20 lengths at 50 cents each, so my sponsor gave $10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x6)
- I suppose the creature must be christened, but I don’t see how we are to ask anyone to be sponsor to him, and what are we to call him?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/#x7)

### note

Ends in «-or», not «-er». Noun: «sponsorship». In maths, total sponsor money = number of laps (or miles) × money per lap, plus any fixed amounts.

### In the corpora

- [When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/)
- [Influencers are often paid to praise products; look for #ad, «sponsored» or «paid partnership».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/17/)
- [Many online videos are sponsored: the maker gets things free or is paid to show them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/13/)
- [Videos that are paid adverts are often marked "ad" or "sponsored", sometimes in small print.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sponsor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.