bankrolling
present participle ofbankroll
bankroll
verb[T]
informaluk/ˈbæŋk.rəʊl/us/ˈbæŋk.roʊl/tosupportapersonoractivityfinancially:
ajointprojectbankrolled by the USspaceagency
Paying money
- ante up (something)
- balance
- burn a hole insomeone'spocketidiom
- charge
- chargeable
- co-finance
- compensate
- congestion charge
- cough
- foot
- lash
- paid
- payer
- prepaid
- settle up
- sink intosomething
- spender
- splash out(something)
- spring forsomething
- stretch tosomething
Examplesofbankrolling
bankrolling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Grant-maintained schools provide a similar example of bribery andbankrolling.
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He called for a travel ban on business menbankrollingthe regime.
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We must tackle the way in which this country is involved on the quiet inbankrollingserious drugs crime.
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What are foreigners doingbankrollingthe election expenses of a party when they have no vote in the election for which they are contributing the money?
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The war economy was not so much a triumph of free enterprise as the result of governmentbankrollingbusiness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.No one would be buying, orbankrolling, projects such as these in the 1930s.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fools fought the enemies of today bybankrollingthose of tomorrow.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is largely due to the bandbankrollingthe album after their split with the production company, however, the quality of the record did not suffer.
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