sponsor

If you sponsor an event or you sponsor somebody to do an event, you give them money, usually in exchange for advertising.

Example: The contest in public school art classes is sponsored by the manufacturers of Ivory soap.

If a politician sponsors a law, they officially support it.

Example: Don't expect Senator Schaffer to sponsor legislation around those issues.

If you sponsor somebody, you agree to help them and be responsible for them.

Example: He discovered that no company would sponsor him for a work visa.

A sponsor is someone who gives money to an event or to somebody to do an event, usually in exchange for advertising.

Example: Without corporate sponsors, the event will not run this year.

A sponsor is somebody who officially supports a law.

Example: He was the only sponsor of a bill to cut $1.5 billion from government spending.