{
  "id": "sponsored.financial",
  "term": "sponsored",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "emergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "humanActivities",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to pay money or material to support a person or event so that they can advertise",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pay.economic",
      "support.assistance",
      "money.economic",
      "material.physical"
    ],
    "interaction": "paying money and providing material together support a person or event, enabling advertisement",
    "novel_properties": [
      "financial backing",
      "public promotion",
      "resource exchange"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The NCAA tournament is sponsored by Coca-Cola, with branding displayed during broadcasts.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Red Bull sponsors Felix Baumgartner's stratosphere jump, providing $50 million for the record-breaking skydive.",
      "domain": "events"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux Foundation receives sponsorship from IBM, which donated $300 million to support open-source development.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "support.assistance",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "advertise.commercial",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "sponsor",
    "sponsored",
    "sponsoring",
    "sponsors"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sponsored.financial"
}