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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bankroll
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ed Bass, a millionaire from Texas, bankrolled the Biosphere project.
▪ The company is bankrolled by a Swiss investor.
▪ The competition is being bankrolled by a New York businessman and computer enthusiast.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we were like bankrolling this entire archaeological dig, you know, the two of us, basically.
▪ From 1981, Friends Provident also pumped money into the business, bankrolling its expansion until it was floated in 1985.
▪ There was plenty of expansion to bankroll.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And every time he told some one something, money gravitated into Lorre's bankroll.
▪ Even if we had found somebody to buy, there was the case of the diminishing bankroll.
▪ Harvey looked at his bankroll, and put it away slowly.
▪ Sure, my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll.
▪ The more convincing their smiles and back-patting, the bigger their bankroll became.
▪ With his virtually unlimited bankroll, Forbes could stay in the race long after other candidates are forced to quit.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bankroll

bankroll \bankroll\ n.

  1. the money carried on one's person. ''He shot his bankroll on a bob-tailed nag.''

    Syn: roll, wad.

  2. one's total supply of money; funds.

bankroll

bankroll \bankroll\ v. t. To pay the costs of; as, Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bankroll

"roll of bank notes," 1887, from bank (n.1) + roll (n.). The verb is attested from 1928. Related: Bankrolled; bankrolling.

Wiktionary
bankroll

n. 1 A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet. 2 The monetary assets of a person or organization. vb. (context transitive English) To fund a project; to underwrite something.

WordNet
bankroll
  1. n. a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.); "he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag" [syn: roll]

  2. v. provide with sufficient funds; finance; "Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?"

Usage examples of "bankroll".

All the beach towns, plus Torrance, Hawthorne, and greater Walteria, were in on some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions, appropriate chunks of which were finding their way to antidrug entities up and down every level of governance.

Ignacio Bozal had suddenly appeared in Acapulco with a bankroll big enough to buy and renovate a broken-down resort hotel and open for business just before the birth of the Mexican Riviera.

That visit waited, with so many other speculative projects, for an entity like Dreamworks to bankroll.

First Mothers, bankrolled by Councillor Alaina, had bought Olympus cheap.

Clark, heavily bankrolled by developers, is running a strong and defiantly lackluster second.

Since the races are partly bankrolled by the city of Miami, Dade County and the state of Florida, taxpayers might be interested in details about the bottom line, which currently is red.

When the ungrateful citizenry of Broward balked at bankrolling a hockey stadium, Huizenga stomped off.

As TAB had stopped bankrolling the Ancients, anyone with more than two working brain cells could deduce a shift in corporate policy that was not beneficial to the elves.

Tony La Russa left when the new owners renounced the old habit of bankrolling millions of dollars in losses.

Faithful to the developers who bankroll their campaigns, past county commissioners approved one subdivision after anothertens of thousands of new toiletseven as sewers began to burst, literally.

The First Mothers, bankrolled by Councillor Alaina, had bought Olympus cheap.

They were so treacherous that no one dared to work with them, except Solly Levine who was tolerated because he bankrolled their underworld schemes.

Oh, you had somebody bankrolling you and knew exactly who you were going to sell this shit to from the day you opened your factory.

A good many of those were sensitive to the uncanny forces here, I think, and were drawn by them—as well as by the lavish gypsy camp of the movie-makers, the bankrolls of the retired and the elderly, and a health-addict's climate, the last somewhat marred by chilly damp western winds and by burningly dry Santa Anas, threatening vast brush fires, and now by smog.

Now this is a class-A tip, and I deserve a reward for it, and I need some fuckin’ money to cover bets with, because bookies and shylocks with no bankroll get hurt and can’t snitch to candy-ass Fed cocksuckers like you.