sponsor

Meanings

Noun

• A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
• One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.

Verb

• To be a sponsor for.

Origin

• From Latin sponsor ("a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism"), from sponsus, past participle of spondeō