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Definition of Patronage

1. Noun. The act of providing approval and support. "His vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"

2. Verb. Support by being a patron of.

3. Noun. Customers collectively. "They have an upper class clientele"

4. Verb. Be a regular customer or client of. "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"

5. Noun. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient.

6. Noun. (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.

7. Noun. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers. "Even before noon there was a considerable patronage"

Definition of Patronage

1. n. Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.

2. v. t. To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.

Definition of Patronage

1. Noun. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship. ¹

2. Noun. Customers collectively; clientele; business. ¹

3. Noun. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain. ¹

4. Noun. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support. ¹

5. Noun. The people who ride a form of transportation. i.e. The customers or clientele of that form of transportation. Synonym of ridership. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To support by being a patron of. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Patronage

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patronage

patrolled patroller patrollers patrolling patrolman patrolmen patrology patrolperson patrolpersons patrols

patrolwoman patrolwomen patron patron saint patron saints patronage (current term) patronages patronal patronate patroness

patronesses patronisation patronisations patronise patronised patroniser patronisers patronises patronising patronisingly

Literary usage of Patronage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A ballot is resorted to also when the patronage is exercised by a numerous community, ... As to the suitability of the candidate, see PATRON AND patronage. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"V. A right of patronage comes into existence or is originally acquired ... A second manner in which a patronage may be acquired is through papal privilege. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Out of gratitude for the foundation or endowment of churches and benefices, the Church grants founders, if they wish to reserve it, the right of patronage, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"In northern Germany the field of patronage was widened by extending itself ... In later times the patronage was divided, as it had been in France in the ..."

5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"There was a report from Calhoun on executive patronage and a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution providing for a distribution of the ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"patronage, 1879. 2. Church patronage Bill, as amended by the Select Committee of the House of Lords, June 1886. SOME persons of good intentions, ..."

7. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1875)
"But throughout these changes, patronage was the mainspring of the organisation of parties. It was used to promote the interests, and consolidate the ..."

8. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1909)
"The King's players were compelled to 1 At the same time the Earl of Worcester's company was taken into the Queen's patronage, and its members were known as ..."

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