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sponsoring

sponsoring is the present participle and gerund of sponsor.

Meaning of sponsor

Verb

sponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)

  1. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
    • Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle...2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36

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Questions about sponsoring

What is sponsoring the present participle and gerund of?
Sponsoring is the present participle and gerund of sponsor.

Words near sponsoring in the dictionary

  1. sponsorette
  2. sponsorettes
  3. sponsorhood
  4. sponsorial
  5. sponsorially
  6. sponsoring
  7. sponsorless
  8. sponsorly
  9. sponsors
  10. sponsorship
  11. sponsorships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sponsoring (page history and authors); sponsor (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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