Plug
Sponsor
Sponsor verb - Assume sponsorship of.
How words are described
| special | special plug | special sponsor |
| ordinary | ordinary plug | ordinary sponsor |
| big | big plug | big sponsor |
| new | new plug | new sponsor |
| Other adjectives: last, latest, commercial, biggest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Happens a lot on bigger TV events, as between matches the commentators sloppily segue into a plug for the upcoming Pay-Per-View event, a sponsor's product, the latest movie starring one of the wrestlers, etc.
Source: Enforced Plug - Many early sitcoms worked a sponsor into the open credits; these are cut short to remove the plug or (as in I Love Lucy below) replaced entirely.
Source: Title Sequence Replacement -
Enforced Plug: In the person of Harlow Wilcox, local salesman for Johnson Wax (the show's primary sponsor).
Source: Radio / Fibber McGee and Molly
Cite this Source
Sponsor and Plug. (2016). Retrieved 2026, October 30, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/sponsor
Plug & Sponsor. N.p., 2016. Web. 30 Oct. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/sponsor>.
Sponsor or Plug. 2016. Accessed October 30, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/sponsor.
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