Patronage
[ˈpeɪtrənɪdʒ] or ['pætrənɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
(verb.) support by being a patron of.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) Business custom.
(n.) Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
(n.) The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.
(n.) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
(v. t.) To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
Checked by Ernest
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Favor, countenance, support, assistance, influence, friendship, aid.[2]. Custom, good-will (of an established place of business).
Edited by Erna
Examples
- Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A young man really well deserves constant support and patronage,' looking at the Doctor, 'who makes such sacrifices. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- From the first the patronage even of Ptolemy I set a limit to political discussion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Truly, there she was, immediately in front of us, curtsying, and smiling, and saying with her yesterday's air of patronage, The wards in Jarndyce! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was an insult in Gudrun's protective patronage that was really too hurting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Oliver has made many friends for itself by its fine alignment and visible writing, and shares with the other standard machines a considerable patronage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I'm hanged if I'll stand your airs of superiority and infernal pity and patronage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Patronage is a fine thing! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was nothing to her that the kindness took the form of tolerant patronage; she was used to that. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I might have thanked Mrs. Bute for her patronage, and Mr. Pitt for his insufferable condescension. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He interested himself for me strongly in that instance, as he did in many others afterward, continuing his patronage till his death. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He had hung out his sign as Painter of Miniatures at the corner of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, under the friendly patronage of Benjamin Franklin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And even could it have been found, how were the ladies on whose approval she depended to be induced to give her their patronage? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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