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🤝 A joint sponsor 🤝 To sponsor together
to cosponsor

to cosponsor

4 4.2
To join others in paying for an event, bill, or project
  • verb
  • /koʊˈspɒnsər/
translation icon : copatrocinar
  • The senator decided to cosponsor a new education reform bill with several colleagues.
  • cosponsored a conference
  • cosponsoring a community event
  • cosponsoring a project

Examples

  • The organization is looking for partners to cosponsor the upcoming charity event.

  • The government of Brazil and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are cosponsoring a project aimed at saving the Brazilian Amazon.

    Academic text (2000)

  • I just cosponsored it to raise my visibility.

    Live Wire (1992)

  • The resolution has been formally introduced into Congress and has been cosponsored by other members of the House and Senate.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Participants suggested cosponsoring community events, attending community meetings, and providing information on helpful resources.

    Academic text (2010)

  • The meeting is cosponsored by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

    Academic text (2007)

  • In 1999, MENC and Florida State University cosponsored the Vision 2020 Symposium to help guide MENC through the next twenty years.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The National Symposium on Music Instruction Technology, cosponsored by MENC, is scheduled for July 30-31 at Auburn University in Alabama.

    Academic text (1999)

  • After several discussions, they agreed to cosponsor the new environmental initiative together.

Synonyms

to sponsor
vsto cosponsor
362 3.7

To support and take responsibility for an event or person by giving money

works together with others to support something rather than acting alone

How Involved

to cosponsor
4 4.2
to sponsor
362 3.7
support
∞ 1.0
to endorse
183 4.2

Surface Forms

cosponsor infinitive
cosponsored past
cosponsored past participle
cosponsoring present participle
cosponsors third person singular

Morphology

cosponsor = sponsor (transparent) = co + sponsor

The meaning 'to sponsor jointly' is directly and regularly formed from the productive prefix 'co-' meaning 'together' plus the verb 'sponsor'.

Etymology

The word cosponsor comes from co- meaning 'together' and sponsor, a person who promises or gives support. So to cosponsor is to join with others to support or help fund something.