sponsor

One who assumes responsibility for another person or a group during a period of instruction, apprenticeship, or probation.

One who vouches for the suitability of a candidate for admission, as to an organization.

A legislator who proposes and urges adoption of a bill.

One who presents a candidate for baptism or confirmation; a godparent.

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.

To act as a sponsor for.

A surety; one who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; specifically, one who is surety for an infant at baptism, professing the Christian faith in its name, and guaranteeing its religious education; a godfather or godmother. The custom of having sponsors in baptism is as old as the second century. See godfather.

In entomology, a genus of coleopterous insects.

One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.

One who at the baptism of an infant professes the Christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.