1 (fund) [+event] patrocinar; auspiciar; [+studies, research] financiar; [+participant in charity event] respaldar avalar mediante un donativo a favor de una obra benéfica;or Would you sponsor Karen in her swim for cancer research next week? I sponsored his attempt at the record my trip was sponsored by the Metal Box Company my faithful secretary, the young seminarist Luciano do Couto Salles Menezes, whose studies I intend to sponsor, in Rome the new-found readiness of the major religious denominations to sponsor market-oriented sociological research the conference was sponsored by the Guardian Mercury, in association with The Independent, is sponsoring the exhibition A company can sponsor a televised event US tobacco companies are doing everything they can here to sell their products advertising, sponsoring sports and cultural events Coca Cola are to sponsor the Scottish League Cup Community organizations sponsor retraining programs for those who need to brush up on old skills or acquire new ones The Friends of the English National Ballet raised enough money to sponsor a new production of the company's popular Christmas ballet, the Nutcracker Would you sponsor Karen in her swim for cancer research next week? "Please could you sponsor me for my school's campaign for Help the Aged?" my daughter asked her grandfather to sponsor sb [to do] sth If you want to give up smoking, why not get someone to sponsor you to stop?
sponsored walk/swim marcha/prueba de natación emprendida a cambio de donaciones a una obra benéfica
2 (support) respaldar; apoyar they have been accused of sponsoring terrorism se los ha acusado de respaldar apoyar al terrorismo;or
peace talks sponsored by the European Community The motoring industry has come together to sponsor an initiative to raise motoring awareness We have to make the states that sponsor terrorism pay a price
3 [+bill, motion] proponer Two Liberal MPs sponsored the Bill Japanese officials agreed today in Washington to sponsor a UN resolution
4 [+loan] fiar; avalar Salveson secured a low-interest government-sponsored loan
