SPONSION

  

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SPONSION

Definition: SPONSION

SPONSION

Noun

1. An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.

2. The act of becoming surety for another.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Sponsion \Spon"sion\, noun. [Latin expression sonsio, from spondere, sponsum, to promise solemnly.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: SPONSION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Security

Sponsor, cosponsor, sponsion, sponsorship; surety, bail; mainpernor, hostage; godchild, godfather, godmother.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: SPONSION

Language Translations for "SPONSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

гаранция (bail, earnest, guarantee, guaranty, hostage, pledge, recognizance, safeguard, seal, security, surety, undertaking, warrant, warranty), поръчителство (bail, guarantee, guaranty, pledge, sponsorship, surety, warrant, warranty). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ruèení (liability, pledge, responsibility). (various references)

   

German

  

Bürgschaft (bond, guarantee, penalty, pledge, security, sponsorship, surety). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγγύηση (assurance, bail, collateral, guarantee, guaranty, hallmark, recognizance, security, sponsorship, sureship, surety, warrant, warranty). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kezesség (bail, del credere, surety, warrant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onsionspay

   

Portuguese

  

garantia (assertion, assurance, bail, caution, chit, contention, deposit, earnest, gage, guarantee, guaranty, handsel, hansel, lien, palladium, pawn, pledge, safe conduct, safeguard, sea-letter, voucher, warrant, warranty, word), fiança (bail, gage, guarantee, recognizance, sponsorship, warrant, warranty), caução (bail, bailment, caution, coverage, gage, pledge, recognizance, surety, warrant). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

garanţie (assurance, bail, bailment, earnest, faith, guarantee, guaranty, hostage, indemnification, liability, lien, pledge, recognizance, security, sponsorship, surety, token, warrant), cauţiune (bail, bailment, guarantee, guaranty, replevin, security, surety). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

поручительство (affidavit, bail, guarantee, pledge, security). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

jemstvo za drugoga. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

garantía (assurance, attestation, escrow, guarantee, guaranty, pawn, pledge, safeguard, seal, security, surety, undertaking, warrant, warranty). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kefil olma, kefalet (bail, bailment, caution, caution money, guarantee, guaranty, indemnification, recognizance, security, suretyship, warranty), güvence verme, devlet adına yapılan taahhüt. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

поручительство (caution, guaranty, pawn, sponsorship, surety, warranty). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự cam kết (engagement), sự cam đoan sự cam kết do một người không có uỷ quyền chính thức. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SPONSION

Derivations

Words beginning with "SPONSION": sponsions. (additional references)

Words containing "SPONSION": responsions. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SPONSION"

Words rhyming with "SPONSION" (pronounced 'Spon"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SPONSION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: opsonins.

Words within the letters "i-n-n-o-o-p-s-s"

-1 letter: opsonin, poisons, sponson.

-2 letters: onions, opsins, pinons, poison, snoops, spoons.

-3 letters: noons, onion, opsin, pinon, pions, pisos, poons, snips, snoop, spins, spoon.

-4 letters: inns, ions, nips, noon, oops, pins, pion, piso, piss, pois, pons, poon, psis, sins, sips, snip, sons, soon, sops, spin.

-5 letters: inn, ins, ion, nip, noo, nos, ons, ops, pin, pis, poi.

 Words containing the letters "i-n-n-o-o-p-s-s"
 

+1 letter: sponsions.

 

+2 letters: poisonings, sopraninos, sponsoring.

 

+3 letters: monopsonies, nonprossing, posttension, responsions.

 

+4 letters: consumptions, copingstones, cosponsoring, hypotensions, nonhospitals, nonpoisonous, personations, posttensions, syncopations.

 

+5 letters: compensations, conscriptions, conspirations, constipations, empoisonments, inconspicuous, indisposition, mispronounces, monopsonistic, nonexplosives, nonpossession, nonresponsive, posttensioned, prednisolones, processioning, transposition.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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