bankroll

1. 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”

   Synonymsroll

   Broaderfunds

   commercial enterprise

1. 1.

   provide with sufficient funds; finance

   “Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?”

   Broaderfund

Other forms of bankroll

plural

bankrolls·

past tense

bankrolled·

present participle

bankrolling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bankroll

What does bankroll mean?

bankroll means "a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bankroll?

bankroll has 2 syllables: ban-kroll. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbæŋˌkɹoʊl/.

What is another word for bankroll?

Close synonyms include roll. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bankroll a common word?

bankroll is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.