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bankroll

verb as in to finance

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This situation leaves open the question of whether the public has a right to know who is bankrolling a nonprofit’s activity.

From Salon

South Park has spent decades reveling in its own poor taste, but the people who bankroll the show have their limits.

From Salon

At the start of her career, when she was signed to a US label, that made it impossible to bankroll a European tour.

From BBC

GOP lawmakers argued that the public and legislators had little time to review the maps of the proposed congressional districts and questioned who crafted the new districts and bankrolled the effort.

But the effort was ultimately bogged down by internal bureaucracy and international pressure — most notably from Qatar and Turkey, both sometime U.S. partners that harbor strong Brotherhood sympathies and bankroll Islamist causes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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