sponsor
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 →
2) A sponsor is someone who promises to give money to charity if you do a task, like a sponsored walk. tree →
3) To sponsor is to give that money or support. tree →
4) At a christening, a sponsor is a person who promises to help bring up a child in their faith. tree →
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 →
- Grandad sponsored me one pound for every lap. tree →
- The football shirts show the sponsor's name. tree →
- Our school did a sponsored walk to raise money. tree →
- The show was sponsored by a toy company. tree →
- I swam 20 lengths at 50 cents each, so my sponsor gave $10. tree →
- 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 →
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.
- Influencers are often paid to praise products; look for #ad, «sponsored» or «paid partnership».
- Many online videos are sponsored: the maker gets things free or is paid to show them.
- Videos that are paid adverts are often marked "ad" or "sponsored", sometimes in small print.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sponsor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.