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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(121) The regional boards overseeing the river levees, once a patronage playpen, have been restructured and professionalised.
(122) Patronage of the arts comes from businesses and private individuals.
(123) Quietly but surely he retired Hanna as chief dispenser of patronage.
(124) Indeed, before its usurpation by Christianity Mithraism enjoyed the patronage of some of the most important individuals in the Roman Empire.
(125) I t was in a great measure supported by the patronage of the Government, and the Governors always exercised the right of forbidding the insertion of what they disliked.
(126) Although it is still dominated by elites and their patronage networks, the Nigerian political sphere is wide open.
(127) Enthusiasm waiting for the majority of new and existing customers patronage, the Jiangnan your company is willing to work with "hand in hand, hold open the market to create brilliant."
(128) It's also likely that your web presence is English language only,[www.Sentencedict.com] and you only receive patronage from English-speaking customers.
(129) The Vevey Festival was founded 12 years ago under the patronage of Oona Chaplin.
(130) Our fashionaBle dress shop has specially set up a popular clothes counter, and welcomes your patronage.
(131) He has a great deal of patronage in his hands.
(132) Bel-Air for the residents to residents free of charge on the ring bus service, the predecessor of the new bus line M49 line and auxiliary line in the vicinity of the Cyberport low patronage.
(133) In 1859 he made a third visit, this time under the patronage of the Czar , Alexander II.
(134) Welcome wholeheartedly new and old customers in the world your patronage, deign to inquire, direct.
(135) Unlike its brother, bourbon, whisky has never benefited from rock-and-roll patronage.
(136) We look forward to the future with confidence, business is business life of the project, which is a law that will never change. Welcome your patronage!
(137) old-style political bosses handed out patronage jobs here and there, he says.
(138) Although there is no doubt that Asoka 's patronage of Buddhism did much to spread that religion, his inscriptions recognize the Brahmans as worthy of respect.
(139) He knew that she was taking the patronage out of his hands.
(140) His translated poems were canonized in the historical process of interaction of ideology, poetics and patronage.
(141) It was nothing like the class of patronage which he had enjoyed in Chicago.
(142) From top Stuttgart is proud of its patronage of the arts.
(143) This shop specializes in making gold - lettered signBoard, and your patronage is welcome.
(144) It is patronage politics, said Harry Roque, a prosecution lawyer acting for a number of the dead journalists.
(145) Goo-goo , in case you're wondering, is a century - old term for "good government" types, reformers opposed to corruption and patronage.
(146) We welcome the broad masses of old and new customers and vendors patronage, any purchase, call letters come, Fair met.
(147) We in the coastal city of the major port and will provide you with a gas service, Welcoming the extensive customer patronage!
(148) I am sorry to say that my patronage ends with this.
(149) The Macclesfield Psalter is a revealing product of artistic and patronage exchange in the Middle Ages.
(150) Though it was not yet noon, there was considerable patronage.
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