How to pronounce “patronage”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
• Customers collectively; clientele; business.
• The act or state of being a customer of some business.
• 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.
• The right of nomination to political office.
• (UK, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
• Patronising speech or behaviour.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
• (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize

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