Bankroll

Definitions: Bankroll

Bankroll

Noun

1. A roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.); "he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag".

Verb

1. Provide with sufficient funds; finance; "Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?".

Synonym: Bankroll

Synonym: roll (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Bankroll (reference) Bankroll your Future: How to Get the Most from Uncle Sam for Your Retirement Years--Social Security, Medicare, and Much More (reference) How to Bankroll a Funeral Without Breaking the Bank (reference) Myths That Destroy a Horseplayers Bankroll (reference) Starting on a Shoestring: Building a Business Without a Bankroll (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Vietnam	In order to support development of the garment and textile industry, the Government has recently pledged capital from the State budget and Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds to bankroll textile industry projects. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bankroll" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "Bankroll" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	53.85%	7	133,076
Noun (singular)	38.46%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "bankroll"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fond (fund, reserve, stock), financoj (back, endow, finance, fund). (various references)

Arabic		‏مول (capitalize, cash, enrich, finance), ‏لفة أوراق مصرفية. (various references)

Bulgarian		субсидирам (back, subsidize), парични средства (finances, financing). (various references)

Chinese		财务资助. (various references)

Farsi		پشتوانه , سرمایه بانک . (various references)

French		fonds, financer (back). (various references)

German		finanzieren (back, bankrolling, finance, fund, machinate, sponsor). (various references)

Hebrew		לממן (finance, funds). (various references)

Hungarian		pénzzel ellát (to bankroll, to money), pénzel (finance, to angel, to bankroll, to finance, to money), finanszíroz (finance, to angel, to bankroll, to finance). (various references)

Italian		finanziare (finance). (various references)

Pig Latin		ankrollbay.(various references)

Russian		субсидировать (subsidize), денежные средства (fund). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		novčani resurs, gomilati novac, gomila novca. (various references)

Spanish		financiar (finance, fund, promote). (various references)

Swedish		tillgångar (assets, funds), sedelrulle. (various references)

Turkish		para destesi, nakit (cash, hard cash, hard money, in specie, liquidity, money, prompt, ready, ready cash, ready money, specie, the ready), hazır para (ready, ready cash, ready money, the ready). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bankroll": bankrolled, bankroller, bankrollers, bankrolling, bankrolls. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bankroll" (pronounced ba"ngkrō'l)
3	-r ō' l	payroll, petrol.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-k-l-l-n-o-r"
	-2 letters: ballon.
	-3 letters: baron, blank, bolar, boral, brank, knoll, krona, labor, llano, lobar, loral, loran.
	-4 letters: balk, ball, bank, bark, barn, boar, bola, boll, bonk, bora, born, bran, kaon, karn, kbar, knar, knob, koan, kola, lank, lark, loan, lorn, nark, okra, olla, oral, rank, roan, roll.
	-5 letters: abo, alb, all, arb, ark, bal, ban, bar, boa, bra, bro, kab, koa, kob, kor, lab, lar, lob, nab, nob, nor, oak, oar, oka, ora, orb, ran, rob.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-k-l-l-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: bankrolls.
	+2 letters: bankrolled, bankroller.
	+3 letters: bankrollers, bankrolling.
	+5 letters: blanketflower.
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