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patronage

English

🔊 (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
🔊 the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
“even before noon there was a considerable patronage”
🔊 customers collectively
“they have an upper class clientele”
🔊 a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
🔊 the act of providing approval and support
“his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives”
🔊 support by being a patron of
🔊 be a regular customer or client of
“We patronize this store”