One who speaks for another, One who or that which speaks; one who is able to speak, One who speaks as the voice of a group of people

One who assumes responsibility for another person or a group during a period of instruction, apprenticeship, or probation, A legislator who proposes and urges adoption of a bill, One that finances a project, event, or organization directed by another person or group, such as a business enterprise that pays for radio or television programming in return for advertising time, verb_ assume responsibility for or leadership of, do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of, transitive To be a sponsor for

Simple past tense and past participle of sponsor

Plural form of sponsor, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sponsor

The state of being a sponsor, countable and uncountable The aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage, the act of sponsoring (either officially or financially)

A sporting man; one who is interested in open-air sports; hence, in a bad sense, a betting man; a gambler; a blackleg, Amusement; enjoyment; entertainment; diversion; fun, A joking mood or attitude, intransitive verb_ To play or frolic, To wear or have on one's body, especially prominently or ostentatiously, To have as a prominent feature, transitive verb_ To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun, To represent by any kind of play, colloq. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear, adjective_ Of, relating to, or appropriate for sports, Designed or appropriate for outdoor or informal wear

Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like, exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play, verb_ Present participle of sport, noun_ A sport; a game; specifically, participation in horse-racing, sports of the field, etc.; sports collectively, with all the interests involved in them, In zoology and botany, spontaneous origination of new and singular characters; the appearance of a sport, or the assumption of that character by an individual animal or plant. See sport, v. i., 3, and n., 8

Plural form of sport, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sport

A playing card with a specified number of such marks on it indicating its value, A location or position, A position or an item in an ordered arrangement, intransitive verb_ To remove spots from, as in a laundry, To become marked with spots, To locate targets from the air during combat or training missions, adjective_ Presented between major radio or television programs, Made, paid, or delivered immediately, Of, relating to, or being a market in which payment or delivery is immediate

A strong beam of light that illuminates only a small area, used especially to center attention on a stage performer, Public notoriety or prominence, a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer, verb_ illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater, To draw attention to, transitive verb_ To illuminate with a spotlight, To focus attention on