Synonyms of the word

sponsor

• n. A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially…
• n. One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange…
• v. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.

advocate

• n. Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
• n. Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
• n. A person who speaks in support of something.
• n. A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
• v. (transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support,…
• v. (transitive) To encourage support for something.
• v. (intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.

advocator

• n. One who advocates.

benefactor

• n. Somebody who gives one a gift. Usually refers to someone who gives money to a charity or another form…

exponent

• n. One who expounds, represents or advocates.
• n. (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.

frequent

• adj. Done or occurring often; common.
• adj. Occurring at short intervals.
• adj. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
• adj. (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
• adj. (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
• v. (transitive) To visit often.

helper

• n. One who helps; an aide.
• n. (Singapore) A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family, or in a market.

patron

• n. One who protects or supports; a defender.
• n. A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
• n. A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
• n. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
• n. (historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights…
• n. An advocate or pleader.
• n. (Britain, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
• n. (nautical) A padrone.
• v. (obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.

patronise

• v. To make a patron.
• v. To treat as inferior unfairly, talk down to, treat condescendingly.
• v. To make oneself a regular customer of a business.

patronize

• v. (transitive) To make a patron.
• v. (transitive) To act as a patron; to protect, defend, support.
• v. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.
• v. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

presenter

• n. Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies.
• n. Someone who presents a thing or person to someone else.
• n. (computing) A small handheld device used to remotely control a computerised slide show.
• n. (software) A conceptual layer in GUI-based software that assumes the functionality of the "middle-man".

proponent

• n. One who supports something; an advocate.
• adj. Making proposals; proposing.

shop

• n. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but…
• n. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
• n. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
• n. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
• n. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
• n. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
• n. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
• n. (figuratively, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
• v. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention…
• v. (transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
• v. (transitive, slang, chiefly Britain) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an…
• v. (transitive, Internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
• interj. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

supporter

• n. A person who gives support to someone or something.
• n. Something that supports another thing.