Usually means: Support or sponsorship by influential person.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. patronage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. patronage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patronage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. patronage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. patronage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Patronage, patronage: Wordnik
  7. patronage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. patronage: Wiktionary
  9. patronage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. patronage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. patronage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. patronage: Dictionary.com
  13. patronage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. patronage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Patronage (disambiguation), Patronage (novel), Patronage (transport), Patronage (transportation), Patronage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Patronage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. patronage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. patronage: Rhymezone
  19. Patronage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. patronage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Patronage: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. patronage: Free Dictionary
  23. patronage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. patronage: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. patronage: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patronage: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. patronage: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. patronage: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patronage: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patronage: Political

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
noun:  Customers collectively; clientele; business.
noun:  The act or state of being a customer of some business.
noun:  A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
noun:  (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
noun:  Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
noun:  The right of nomination to political office.
noun:  (UK, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
verb:  (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
verb:  (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize

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