lend (one's) name to (something)

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lend (one's) name to (something)

To give one's formal and public support to something; to allow oneself or one's name to be associated with something. Now that we've got a big movie star lending his name to our campaign, we're finally starting to get the traction we've wanted.

lend your name to something

allow yourself to be publicly associated with something.

lend your ˈname to something

(formal) let it be known in public that you support or agree with something: Famous actors sometimes lend their names to political causes.

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(Even Lola had a job, with the boss from hell, no less.) On top of the coaching and the acting, Verdon seemed always to be helping out charity-seekers and benefit-throwers, lending her name and her presence to everything from a Paul Taylor gala (where she danced with Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov!) to local fund-raisers near her Long Island summer home (where she also staged a Nutcracker one year).

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