Dictionary Entry
patronage
patronage is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Business custom.
- 3noun
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
- 4noun
The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.
- 5noun
The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
- 6transitive verb
To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
- 7noun
the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
"even before noon there was a considerable patronage"
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- 8noun
(politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- 9noun
the act of providing approval and support
"his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
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- 10noun
a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
Synonyms
- 11noun
customers collectively
"they have an upper class clientele"
- 12verb
be a regular customer or client of
"We patronize this store"
"Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"
- 13verb
support by being a patron of
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