Definition of "underwrote" []

• Simple past of underwrite. (verb)

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• "In a speech earlier this week, Giorgio Armani – whose label underwrote the exhibit – remarked on the inventiveness of these fashion designers."
• "I wanted to go off and live in London when I was 20 years old, so he kind of underwrote the whole experience and paid for the rent and paid for me to go."
• "And what has been the place occupied by the cloud studies in the life of the mind through the calamitous twentieth century when our founder, the late Paul Mellon, acquired one of the largest collections of paintings by Constable that exists, and, incidentally, at the same time financed the translation into English and underwrote the publication of the complete works of Carl Jung?"