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Sponsor vs Investment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sponsor and investment

is that sponsor is sponsor while investment is the act of investing, or state of being invested.

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

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    investment

    English

    (wikipedia investment)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of investing, or state of being invested.
  • (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
  • * A. Hamilton
    • An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
  • That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Whose white investments figure innocence.
  • (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
  • * Marshall
    • The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments .
  • A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.