Financer vs Sponsor - What's the difference?
financer | sponsor |
(finance) An entity that provides financing
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 24, Tara Siegel Bernard, Costs and Tighter Rules Thwart Refinancings, New York Times
, passage=And only a select few borrowers with pristine credit can secure the most attractive rates: for the week that ended Jan. 15, rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage sank to 5.12 percent, the 11th consecutive weekly drop and the lowest rate since the big mortgage financer Freddie Mac began tracking them in 1971. }}
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A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
#A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.
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One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
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To be a sponsor for.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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As nouns the difference between financer and sponsor
is that financer is (finance) an entity that provides financing while sponsor is sponsor.financer
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* patron, underwriterVerb
(en verb)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}