Patronage ¹

Definition: 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.

Patronage ²

Definition: Business custom.

Patronage ³

Definition: Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.

Patronage ⁴

Definition: The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.

Patronage ⁵

Definition: The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.

Patronage ⁶

Definition: To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.

patronage ⁷

Definition: the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; "even before noon there was a considerable patronage"

patronage ⁸

Definition: (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support

patronage ⁹

Definition: the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"

patronage ¹⁰

Definition: a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

patronage ¹¹

Definition: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele"

patronage ¹²

Definition: be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"

patronage ¹³

Definition: support by being a patron of