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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(151) What will be the final result of this ever - expanding patronage?
(152) All this mawkish celebration, they maintain, merely bolsters an anti-democratic institution based on privilege and patronage, a costly anachronism that ought to be abolished.
(153) It is part of the Mae Fah Luang Foundation, set up under royal patronage to help the disfranchised ethnic minorities of northern Thailand.
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.