Sponsored vs Complicit - What's the difference?
sponsored | complicit |
(sponsor)
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.
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, title= Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
* 1861 , Henry M. Wheeler, The Slaves' Champion ,
* 1973 , , As If by Magic , Secker and Warburg,
* 2005 , Larry Dennsion, "
As a verb sponsored
is past tense of sponsor.As an adjective complicit is
associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.sponsored
English
Verb
(head)sponsor
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* 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.}}
Derived terms
* sponsorial * sponsorshipExternal links
* * ----complicit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)p. 203,
- It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,
p. 177:
- "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
Letters," Time , 7 March:
- Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.