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sponsors

sponsors is the plural of sponsor.

sponsors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sponsor.

Meaning of sponsor

Noun

sponsor (plural sponsors)

  1. A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
    • He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.
    1. A senior member of a twelve step or similar program chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them.
      • My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.
  2. A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
    • And now a word from our sponsor.
    Synonyms:
    patron, underwriter

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Questions about sponsors

What is sponsors the plural of?
Sponsors is the plural of sponsor.

Words near sponsors in the dictionary

  1. sponsorial
  2. sponsorially
  3. sponsoring
  4. sponsorless
  5. sponsorly
  6. sponsors
  7. sponsorship
  8. sponsorships
  9. spontaneism
  10. spontaneist
  11. spontaneists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sponsors (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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