bankrollern.
/ˈbaŋkˌrəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈbæŋkˌroʊlər/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
A person or organization that provides the funding for an enterprise, project, etc.
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1930 Salt Lake Tribune 5 Nov. 24/1 Why the great shouting about the contamination of boxing by the active presence of racketeers? It may be that some of this type of citizens are ‘bankrollers’. Isn't that also as true in other business regarded as legitimate?
1947 Billboard 16 Apr. 5/2 The agency is understood to have pacted a sponsor already, with the bankroller said to be a major firm currently in network radio.
2004 M. W. Summers Party Games ix. 154 He..remained for the next twenty years the bankroller of a party desperately in need of funds.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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