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Benefactor

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Benefactor meaning

Somebody who gives a gift, often money to a charity. | Someone who performs good or noble deeds.

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This was generally a safe affair, as both the benefactor's spouse and the courtesan's spouse usually were fully aware of the arrangement, and the courtesan was not solely dependent on the benefactor.

And guess who was the biggest benefactor of Affirmative Action?

Anthony McFarland has been the biggest benefactor.

As he sits on the edge of a bed where his deceased benefactor lays, he does what always brings him comfort, turns on the TV.

But where is that line, when a justice can secretly accept trips and gifts worth millions from a benefactor with a distinct agenda?

Esther’s grandson, Ethan, a teenage artist “saved” through Matthew’s intercession, is packed off to study art with a wealthy benefactor in Massachusetts (he’s not the only talented island child, but Ethan is singled out because he passes for white).

His late uncle Max Fisher, a wealthy oilman and philanthropist, was a prominent benefactor of institutions like Ohio State University and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Lazarus Planet has changed the very foundation of the DC Universe by putting Shazam on a collision course with his greatest benefactor.

Men climb the walls to go inside the now abandoned estate, walking amongst paintings and sculptures before stripping naked to take a dip in the indoor swimming pool while a giant portrait of their unwitting (and now imprisoned) benefactor looks on.

Ms Parsons said Margaret Olley was a tremendous supporter and benefactor of NERAM, donating 15 artworks to the NERAM collection, both her own work and those of other Australian artists.

Their only historic benefactor is face-planting in Ukraine and is no longer taken seriously as a super power - or any power for that matter.

The subject matter also feels dated, as Christian and a wealthy benefactor, The Duke (James Bryers), fight over Satine; Christian’s characterisation in particular verges on manipulative, and the language can be paternalistic.

The tiebreak was invented in the 1950s by Jimmy Van Alen, an American benefactor, who lived in Rhode Island.

This perk works especially well with the Medic's Backbone ability, which increases the amount of hits he can take before going down, and Benefactor which makes using Relics even faster.

This YA novel follows Avery Grambs who comes into an enormous sum of money when a mysterious benefactor, Tobias Hawthorne, dies and leaves her his entire fortune.

Yet this hasn’t necessarily turned the husbands into grovelling grateful who hurriedly prepare their ‘benefactor’s’ meals!

A mysterious benefactor, who could have lived the rest of his life carefree — but out of duty and passion for the country, chose to take up the burden of Georgia’s leadership instead.

An anonymous benefactor has agreed to cover Kolten’s parents’ travel expenses for their trips to the West Regional in San Bernardino, Calif., and the World Series in Williamsport.

Flaky, sweet and golden, it would be frosted and dotted with sliced cherries and then delivered to someone special — a long-ago benefactor.

He was also a benefactor of the first New York City Catholic school for Black children at St. Vincent de Paul on Canal Street.