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megadonor

megadonor noun: someone who donates a lot, or who is responsible for a large amount of donations flowing to a person or entity.

Noun

megadonor (plural megadonors)

  1. Someone who donates a lot, or who is responsible for a large amount of donations flowing to a person or entity.
    • [Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents
    • Mr. Thiel’s $15 million appears to be the most ever spent by an individual megadonor to elect a single Senate candidate.2022 May 5, Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, “Tucker, Thiel and Trump: How J.D. Vance Won in Ohio”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of megadonor

pluralmegadonors
alternative formmega-donor

Origin of megadonor

From mega- + donor.

Questions about megadonor

What does megadonor mean?
Megadonor means someone who donates a lot, or who is responsible for a large amount of donations flowing to a person or entity.
What part of speech is megadonor?
Megadonor is a noun.
What is the plural of megadonor?
The plural of megadonor is megadonors.

Words near megadonor in the dictionary

  1. megadollars
  2. megadomain
  3. megadomains
  4. megadome
  5. megadomes
  6. megadonor
  7. megadonors
  8. megadont
  9. megadontia
  10. megadontism
  11. megadonty

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