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Patronage   /pˈætrənɪdʒ/  /pˈeɪtrənədʒ/  /pˈeɪtrənɪdʒ/   Listen
Patronage

noun
1.
The act of providing approval and support.  Synonyms: backing, backup, championship.
2.
Customers collectively.  Synonyms: business, clientele.
3.
A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient.  Synonyms: condescension, disdain.
4.
(politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
5.
The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.  Synonym: trade.
verb
1.
Support by being a patron of.
2.
Be a regular customer or client of.  Synonyms: keep going, patronise, patronize, support.  "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"





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"Patronage" Quotes from Famous Books



... but Burke surprised her by his ease of manner. Above all, she noticed that he was by no means kind to Guy. He treated him with a curt friendliness from which all trace of patronage was wholly absent. His attitude was rather that of brother than host, she reflected. And its effect upon Guy was of an oddly bracing nature. The semi-defiant air dropped from him. Though still subdued, his manner ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... vote always with the Liberals—at least with the Liberals who form governments and oppositions," said Jane. "They are often in the wrong, and particularly so in the bestowal of patronage, which, I suppose, is a very important matter among party politicians. The appointments which the Whigs have made of late years have often been most shamefully actuated by family or party reasons, and not with a single ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence
... "Vulcan's Head," where a conclave of coalheavers were accustomed nightly to assemble, with the double view of discussing politics and pots of Barclay's entire. He announced the nature of his profession, and having solicited patronage, he was beckoned into the box where the defendant was sitting, and was offered a shilling for a full-length likeness. This sum the defendant consented to enlarge to fifteen pence, provided the artist would agree to draw him in "full fig:"—red velvet smalls—nankeen gaiters—sky-blue ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... course of the next day, the benevolent curate introduced him to the parish priest, who from the frequent claims urged by poor scholars upon his patronage, felt no particular interest in his case. He wrote a short letter, however, to the master with whom Jemmy intended to become a pupil, stating that "he was an honest boy, the son of legitimate parents, ...
— The Poor Scholar - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton
... nor idealised her beyond natural humanity. She stands in his poetry side by side with man on an equality of value to the present and future of mankind. And he has wrought this out not by elaborate statement of it in a theory, as Tennyson did in the Princess with a conscious patronage of womanhood, but by unconscious representation of it in the multitude of ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke


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