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bankroll

US/ˈbæŋk.ɹoʊl/

bankroll noun: a roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.

Noun

bankroll (plural bankrolls)

  1. A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
    • Phil kept his bankroll in his front pocket, as it made too much of a lump to sit on.
  2. (figuratively) The monetary assets of a person or organization.
    • Microsoft is a corporation with an extremely large bankroll.

Verb

bankroll (third-person singular simple present bankrolls, present participle bankrolling, simple past and past participle bankrolled)

  1. (transitive) To fund a project; to underwrite something.
    • Professor Stebbins didn't need to apply for government grants because his lab was bankrolled by a large pharmaceutical corporation.
    • Pathfinder is keen to stress it is not insolvent, but owner Barry Cordell, who is in his late 80s, has decided he can no longer bankroll the company.2025 October 15, “News: Pathfinder to run final trains”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 13

bankroll meaning in Urdu and Bengali

bankroll in Urdu

مالی مدد کرنا

bankroll in Bengali

আর্থিক সহায়তা দেওয়া, তহবিল যোগানো

Examples of bankroll in a sentence

  • The French islands didn't have the luxury of a deep-pocketed navy bankrolling a rum industry.
  • He would rather put a dent in his bankroll than fall down on anything he started.
  • Joseph had missed the feeling of carrying a phat bankroll, one not padded with Washingtons and topped with Grants.

All 10 example sentences with bankroll

Synonyms of bankroll

Forms of bankroll

Noun
pluralbankrolls
Verb
third-person singular presentbankrolls
present participlebankrolling
past participlebankrolled
pastbankrolled

Plural of bankroll: bankrolls

Origin of bankroll

Compound of bank + roll.

Words formed from bankroll

Questions about bankroll

What does bankroll mean?
Bankroll means a roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
What is bankroll in Urdu?
Bankroll in Urdu is مالی مدد کرنا. See Bankroll meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bankroll?
Bankroll can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce bankroll?
Bankroll is pronounced /ˈbæŋk.ɹoʊl/ (US).
What is the plural of bankroll?
The plural of bankroll is bankrolls.

Words near bankroll in the dictionary

  1. bankr.
  2. bankra
  3. bankras
  4. bankrobber
  5. bankrobbers
  6. bankroll
  7. bankrolled
  8. bankroller
  9. bankrollers
  10. bankrolling
  11. bankrolls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bankroll (page history and authors); bankroll (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bankroll (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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