godfathering

Verb

godfather (third-person singular simple present godfathers, present participle godfathering, simple past and past participle godfathered)

1. (figuratively, often, transitive) To act as godfather or guardian to.
   • Hull objected violently that aid had not been used to extract commitments on postwar economic policy; the joint chiefs had wanted bases; others in the military still wanted Britain to play only a minor, if any, role in the Pacific; and they were all apparently angry at the Treasury for godfathering...1996, Ann Lane, The Rise and Fall of the Grand Alliance, 1941–45, page 61

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