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Webster 1913 Edition
Patronage
Pa′tron-age
,Noun.
[F.
patronage
. Cf. LL. patronaticum
, and L. patronatus
.] 1.
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.2.
Business custom.
[Commercial Cant]
3.
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
Addison.
4.
The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.
5.
(Eng. Law)
The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
Blackstone.
Pa′tron-age
,Verb.
T.
To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Patronage
PAT'RONAGE
,Noun.
1.
Guardianship, as of a saint.2.
Advowson; the right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice.PAT'RONAGE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
Patronage
Patronage
See also: patronage
German
Noun
Patronage f (genitive Patronage, plural Patronagen)
Declension
Declension of Patronage
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Patronage | die | Patronagen |
genitive | einer | der | Patronage | der | Patronagen |
dative | einer | der | Patronage | den | Patronagen |
accusative | eine | die | Patronage | die | Patronagen |
patronage
patronage
See also: Patronage
English
Noun
patronage (countable and uncountable, plural patronages)
- The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
- His vigorous patronage of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives.
- Customers collectively; clientele; business.
- The restaurant had an upper-class patronage.
- 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.
- 1864, Eliza Farnham, Woman and Her Era:
- Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
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- The right of nomination to political office.
- (Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
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Translations
the act of providing approval and support
customers collectively; clientele; business
a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
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the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; trade
Verb
patronage (third-person singular simple present patronages, present participle patronaging, simple past and past participle patronaged)
- (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
- 2003, Hubert Michael Seiwert, Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History, ISBN 9789004131460, page 62:
- Mingdi continued the policy of his father who had patronaged Confucian learning.
- 2004, C.K. Gandhirajan, Organized Crime, APH Publishing Corporation, ISBN 978-81-7648-481-7, page 147:
- Table 5.4 reveals the role of criminal gangs’ patron under each crime category. From this, we can understand that 74 percent of the mercenaries are patronaged and supported by the politicians either of the ruling or opposition party.
- 2007, Stefaan Fiers and Ineke Secker, “6, A Career through the Party”, in Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best, editors, Democratic Representation in Europe, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-923420-2, page 138:
- To summarize: a person with a party political background is thus defined as ‘a person that has served in (a) […] and/or (b) a non-elective position inside the party administration of patronaged position in another organisation, i.e. the political functionary’.
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- (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.
- c. 1880,, The Primary Teacher, volume 3, New-England Publishing Company, page 63:
- This house is largely patronaged by the professors and students of many of the Educational Institutions of New England and the Middle States; and all perons visiting New York, either for business or pleasure, will find this an excellent place at which to stop.
- 2002, Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, SUNY Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-5377-3, page 28:
- Most public establishments catered to Blacks, and Whites actively patronaged some black-owned businesses (Martin 1982, 6, 9–11; Slingsby 1980, 31–32).
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