What is "bankrolled"

Usage examples of "bankrolled".

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.

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