as in financing
to provide money for
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Recent Examples of bankrolling
Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
But mobster Reggie Fontaine (Freeman), who’s been bankrolling Max’s dubious projects, is not at all amused.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Painters were beholden to those wealthy people bankrolling them.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Donors would have begun bankrolling their favorites, and organizations would have started to announce endorsements.
—Laurel Rosenhall, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The City of Rome is bankrolling the concert, so tickets to see Boy George are free.
—Alan Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
After bankrolling some more ambitious swings, the company has aimed more at the casual gaming segment, tying many of its releases to popular series and films.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
That’s unlikely, if not fanciful, given the network’s role in bankrolling college athletics.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
Germans were angry, too, resentful at bankrolling other people’s profligate ways.
—Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2019
Noun
The state’s top political fund-raisers—a pair of Christian nationalists—were bankrolling the effort.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
But mobster Reggie Fontaine (Freeman), who’s been bankrolling Max’s dubious projects, is not at all amused.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Painters were beholden to those wealthy people bankrolling them.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Donors would have begun bankrolling their favorites, and organizations would have started to announce endorsements.
—Laurel Rosenhall, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The City of Rome is bankrolling the concert, so tickets to see Boy George are free.
—Alan Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
After bankrolling some more ambitious swings, the company has aimed more at the casual gaming segment, tying many of its releases to popular series and films.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
That’s unlikely, if not fanciful, given the network’s role in bankrolling college athletics.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
Germans were angry, too, resentful at bankrolling other people’s profligate ways.
—Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrolling
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Marauder Pictures will make docs and narrative features and has brought in Mark Waugh, former global Chief Content Officer at Publicis Groupe, to drive innovation in the financing, marketing and distribution sides of production.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
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Aside from finding areas where Kodak can succeed, Continenza has focused on paying down the company’s debt and obtaining more appropriate financing to go with the company’s restructuring.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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His research findings can be applied China’s current strategy of subsidizing distressed companies, which is driving cheaper exports into global markets and could pose challenges for local suppliers.—
IESE Business School,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Then why is the public subsidizing this activity?—
Evan Simon,
ABC News,
19 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Despite years of federal subsidies, solar and wind cannot produce enough baseload energy to meet demand.—
Chris Talgo,
Boston Herald,
13 July 2025
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These kinds of choices are all over our lives, where either our social structures, our institutions make the costs invisible or whether, in some cases, there are literal subsidies to industries that artificially decrease the prices of things.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Noun
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Washington University has seen its endowment balloon in recent years—at the end of fiscal 2021, the endowment netted a mind-boggling 65% return (the median return for college endowments that year was 27%), which brought its value from $9.6 billion to $15.3 billion.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The law increases the tax to 8% on the near-trillion dollars of bloated university endowments — money that was never taxed.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
9 July 2025
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“Bankrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrolling. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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