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bankrolling

bankrolling is the present participle and gerund of bankroll.

Meaning of 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.

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Questions about bankrolling

What is bankrolling the present participle and gerund of?
Bankrolling is the present participle and gerund of bankroll.

Words near bankrolling in the dictionary

  1. bankrobbers
  2. bankroll
  3. bankrolled
  4. bankroller
  5. bankrollers
  6. bankrolling
  7. bankrolls
  8. bankrupcy
  9. bankrupt
  10. bankrupt cart
  11. bankrupt carts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bankrolling (page history and authors); bankroll (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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