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# sponsorship

«sponsorship» in Mova's school dictionary: **money or support that a person or company gives to pay…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sponsorship — uncountable; a sponsorship, sponsorships)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) Sponsorship is also money people promise to give to charity if you complete a challenge, like a sponsored walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#m2)

3) Sponsorship can mean officially supporting someone, such as a person moving to a new country or a member joining a club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and school events, sponsorship explains why a company's logo is on football shirts. At school children collect sponsorship for a sponsored run or read-a-thon. In money lessons sponsorship is a deal: the sponsor pays and gets advertising. Phrases: get sponsorship, sponsorship deal, under the sponsorship of.

### examples

- Our football team got sponsorship from the local bakery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x1)
- I raised forty pounds in sponsorship for the charity swim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x2)
- The concert was paid for by sponsorship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x3)
- The company ended its sponsorship of the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x4)
- My uncle signed a big sponsorship deal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x5)
- We need sponsorship to buy new instruments for the band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x6)
- Gran gave me sponsorship for every lap I ran. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sponsorship/#x7)

### note

Usually uncountable (much sponsorship), but «a sponsorship deal» or «sponsorships» is fine. The person or firm that pays is a «sponsor». In maths problems «a sponsorship of 2 pounds per lap» means multiply the laps by 2.

### In the corpora

- [Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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