bankroll
Example Sentences
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When giant retailers showed interest in carrying their product, they went hunting for capital and raised another $30 million just in time to bankroll holiday orders.
Later, they bet on renewables, bankrolling enormous hydroelectric projects, solar fields and wind farms.
Just four months earlier, he had bankrolled his son David’s $8-billion acquisition of the storied Paramount Pictures.
From Los Angeles Times
But for Warner Bros. executives and investors, two individual films meant that the “Harry Potter” bankroll could continue even longer.
From Salon
Humain, launched in May, is bankrolled by Saudi's powerful Public Investment Fund, which has played a key role in financing the kingdom's so-called gigaprojects -- major developments aimed at boosting and diversifying its oil-reliant economy.
From Barron's
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