bankrolled; bankrolling; bankrolls
: to supply money for (a business, project, or person)
bankroller
noun
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Examples of bankroll in a Sentence
Noun
They started the business with a fairly small bankroll.
my total bankroll right now is $2,000
Verb
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
In 2011, the Indian government levied a tax on coal, which was supposed to go into a National Clean Energy Fund that bankrolls research regarding green technologies.
—Ira Trivedi, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2015
John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
With its high concentration of movement leaders, conservative pastors and far-right megadonors, Texas has become the country’s foremost laboratory for Christian nationalist policy, and many of its experiments have been bankrolled by Dunn and Wilks.
—Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024
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Noun
On the latter, Delville says Belgium’s tax credit system is preferable because the government bankrolls before the cameras roll, guaranteeing funds for buyers and producers desperate to avert cashflow problems.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
In 2011, the Indian government levied a tax on coal, which was supposed to go into a National Clean Energy Fund that bankrolls research regarding green technologies.
—Ira Trivedi, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2015
Verb
The steely faux-Gothic design of Lord Norman Foster’s Four Twenty Five skyscraper, including the restaurant, was bankrolled by the same entrepreneurs who took over the Seagram Building, Aby Rosen, David Levinson and Robert Lapidus.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
With its high concentration of movement leaders, conservative pastors and far-right megadonors, Texas has become the country’s foremost laboratory for Christian nationalist policy, and many of its experiments have been bankrolled by Dunn and Wilks.
—Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Bankroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bankroll. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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