patronage
pa truh nij
- n the act of providing approval and support
- n customers collectively
- n a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
- n (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- n the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
even before noon there was a considerable patronage - v support by being a patron of
- v be a regular customer or client of
- During the past 50 years, transportation has become a patronage program in this country.
- We have to take it for granted that art patronage, as once understood, no longer exists in today's world, especially in America.
- For any change-of-party new administration, the problem of patronage has three elements: 1) getting rid of the patronage appointees of the preceding administration to assure .