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Sponsor vs Ambassador - What's the difference?

sponsor | ambassador |

As nouns the difference between sponsor and ambassador

is that sponsor is 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 while ambassador is a minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence.

As a verb sponsor

is to be a sponsor for.

sponsor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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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  • Synonyms

    * patron, underwriter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be a sponsor for.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

    Derived terms

    * sponsorial * sponsorship

    ambassador

    Alternative forms

    * ambassadour (obsolete) * embassador (archaic) * embassadour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence )
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  • An official messenger and representative.
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  • A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.
  • A trick to duck some ignorant fellow or landsman, frequently played on board ships in the warm latitudes. It is thus managed: A large tub is filled with water, and two stools placed on each side of it. Over the whole is thrown a tarpaulin, or old sail: this is kept tight by two persons, who are to represent the king and queen of a foreign country, and are seated on the stools. The person intended to be ducked plays the Ambassador, and after repeating a ridiculous speech dictated to him, is led in great form up to the throne, and seated between the king and queen, who rising suddenly as soon as he is seated, he falls backwards into the tub of water.
  • Usage notes

  • Syntax usage: In English the preferred constuction is ambassador to , example: The French ambassador to the United States .
  • Derived terms
    * ambassadorial * ambassadorship

    See also

    * consul