BANKROLL Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

bankroll 1 of 2

noun

ˈbaŋk-ˌrōl

Definition of bankroll

as in fund

available money my total bankroll right now is $2,000

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bankroll

2 of 2

verb

as in to fund

to provide money for several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical

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defund

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Recent Examples of bankroll

Noun

Musk, who helped bankroll OpenAI, launched a rival for-profit AI company in 2023 called xAI, which built a chatbot that competes with ChatGPT. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 May 2026 Lost in all of that has been a string of solid baseball looks that have kept the bankroll from plummeting. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2026

Verb

Michelangelo, court artisans — all these things happened because someone was bankrolling them. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 18 Aug. 2026 The deal has also revived concerns about circularity in AI financing, where a chip supplier like Nvidia effectively bankrolls its own biggest customers. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bankroll

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankroll

Noun

In August, the health board designated a $250,000 fund for rat abatement — so far the only public money specifically earmarked to combat the nuisance in the state.

— Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2026
Four staff will be hired as part of the grant − positions that couldn’t be funded through the district’s general fund budget.

— Morgan Matzen, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of fund

Verb

That’s as private credit is financing the AI boom as well, while chipmaker Nvidia is even leveraging its balance sheet to back AI deals.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
Paul Bennett, Managing Partner at Madox Square LLP, said extraordinary Chinese profits financed a generation of European overcapacity.

— Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of finance

Verb

The governor’s finance office issued an analysis opposing the bill for failing to outline a cap on tax credits and for seeking to subsidize existing jobs rather than encouraging the creation of more journalism jobs.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Paying an insider may be the only way to maintain access, protect the source or extract someone from a movement, but that same payment also carries the risk of subsidizing the movement itself.

— Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of subsidize

Noun

Hochul has made that argument in defending New York’s law, saying local officers should remain focused on investigating crimes rather than using state and local resources to perform ICE’s work.

— María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Newcastle had depleted full-back resources and Jaissle was convinced the 24-year-old’s athleticism was ideal.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026