Synonym: backing, backup, business, championship, clientele, condescension, disdain, keep going, patronise, patronize, support, trade. Similar words: patron, patrol, patriot, patriarch, patriarchy, atrocious, manage, manager. Meaning: ['peɪtrənɪdʒ /'pæt-] 
n. 1. the act of providing approval and support 2. customers collectively 3. a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient 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. v. 1. support by being a patron of 2. be a regular customer or client of.
n. 1. the act of providing approval and support 2. customers collectively 3. a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient 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. v. 1. support by being a patron of 2. be a regular customer or client of. 
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(91) The use of state posts as a source of patronage and control was reflected in the hypertrophy of the state enterprise bureaucracy.
(92) The letter is remarkable testimony to the importance of ecclesiastical patronage for the king's government.
(93) A lucky stalwart might gain the patronage of some powerful upper-hab clan or even of a noble.
(94) It was not long before the Princess proved that her patronage was not intended as a sinecure.
(95) Later, Daley would shrink civil service and expand the patronage army.
(96) Romanus' patronage stems from curing two madmen while on pilgrimage to Valais.
(97) Like Hope, he was immensely wealthy, and was able to combine passive politics with active art patronage and writing.
(98) For those who got such jobs colonial patronage brought considerable advantages in terms of income and prestige.
(99) The early introduction of merit systems deprived them of patronage,[Sentencedict.com ] and nominations for public office were outside their control.
(100) On the contrary, patterns of patronage and marketing ensured that it was the most widely seen and reproduced of all.
(101) Indeed it can still be found in our own time, in some individual cases but also in new forms of patronage.
(102) We too rely on, if not the direct patronage, at least the goodwill of people in government and high places.
(103) Court politics were pursued within a context of competition between rival patronage groups.
(104) Intertwined with these were rivalry, power brokering, and patronage.
(105) We respectfully solicit your continuous patronage.
(106) We request a continuance of your patronage.
(107) We solicit a continuance of your patronage.
(108) Your patronage is cordially invited.
(109) The hotel has a large patronage.
(110) A thousand thanks for your patronage.
(111) Solicit a continuance of customer's patronage.
(112) The restaurant has a large patronage.
(113) Banks retain youngsters'loyalty and continued patronage in the future.
(114) The machine survived because it was held together by the twin cords of patronage and loyalty.
(115) How often he had winced at her patronage of strangers!
(116) To this caravanserai came the best of the political and social patronage of the State.
(117) This research investigates the effects of the refund depth and scope of price-matching on consumer perceptions of believability , value and patronage intentions.
(118) Pension, A sum of money paid regularly as a retirement benefit or by way of patronage.
(119) Those that live by patronage shall surely perish by patronage.
(120) His patronage, entwined with the ordinary deference, was not plain to them.
More similar words: patron, patrol, patriot, patriarch, patriarchy, atrocious, manage, manager, teenage, managed, teenager, strong, menagerie, management, astronomer, electronic, electronics, on average, managing, psychiatrist, pat, iron, patch, spate, wrong, irony, apathy, patent, bear on, bronze.