patronage
IPA: pˈætrʌnɪdʒ
noun
- The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
- Customers collectively; clientele; business.
- The act or state of being a customer of some business.
- A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
- (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
- Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
- The right of nomination to political office.
- (UK, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
verb
- (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
- (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
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Examples of "patronage" in Sentences
- Royal patronage was crucial to the revival of the wig.
- Thereafter she enjoyed the royal patronage of the king.
- The nunnery is now under the patronage of Thiksey Monastery.
- The media also enjoyed the patronage of the Travancore kings.
- The school also received the official patronage from the queen.
- The patronage of the 'Lobelia' was accepted by the city of Diest.
- However, poor patronage had led to discontinuance of the services.
- The complex was repaired under the patronage of the Marquis of La Cadena.
- The church has a choir that is under the patronage of The Duchess of Kent.
- The patronage of the school remained in the family of the founder until 1851.
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