Megadonor

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who donates a lot, or who is responsible for a large amount of donations flowing to a person or entity.

    "[Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like."

Example

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"[Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like."

Etymology

From mega- + donor.

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