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US
/ˈpætɹənɪdʒ, ˈpeɪtɹənədʒ, ˈpeɪtɹənɪdʒ/
]
[ UK /pˈætɹənɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /pˈætɹənɪdʒ/ ]
VERB
- support by being a patron of
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be a regular customer or client of
Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could
We patronize this store
NOUN
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the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
even before noon there was a considerable patronage - (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
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the act of providing approval and support
his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives -
customers collectively
they have an upper class clientele - a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
How To Use patronage In A Sentence
- They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
- Without the patronage of several large firms, the festival could not take place.
- We thank you for your patronage.
- Leonardo clearly believed that wealth, patronage, and political power lay in the courts to the east of mainland Europe.
- Early modern patronage came as before from courts, churches, aristocratic, and merchant families, from religious orders and confraternities.
- African youth are caught between challenging authoritarian regimes they inherited and relying on the patronage networks within the national structure and its local interstices.
- The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
- Later, Daley would shrink civil service and expand the patronage army.
- In return for this patronage, magnates expected their clients, tenants, and neighbors — their "affinities" — to support them with men, arms, and money when the magnate needed military resources. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
- The king's patronage as well as his jurisdiction were advanced and defended by prohibitions.