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Patronize   /pˈeɪtrənˌaɪz/  /pˈætrənˌaɪz/   Listen
Patronize

verb
(past & past part. patronized; pres. part. patronizing)
1.
Assume sponsorship of.  Synonyms: patronise, sponsor.
2.
Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of.  Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, shop, shop at, sponsor.
3.
Treat condescendingly.  Synonyms: condescend, patronise.
4.
Be a regular customer or client of.  Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, support.  "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"






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"Patronize" Quotes from Famous Books



... would hire bull-hided self-advertising Englishmen to bellow it abroad. Preachers would found a fresh conduct of life upon it, swearing that it was new and that they had lifted the fear of death from all mankind. Every Orientalist in Europe would patronize it discursively with Sanskrit and Pali texts. Terrible women would invent unclean variants of the men's belief for the elevation of their sisters. Churches and religions would war over it. Between the hailing and re-starting of an omnibus I foresaw ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... I forbid your unsisterly reflections?—Does not your father, do not your uncles, does not every body, patronize Mr. Solmes? And let me tell you, ungrateful girl, and unmovable as ungrateful, let me repeatedly tell you, that it is evident to me, that nothing but a love unworthy of your prudence can make you a creature late so dutiful, now so sturdy. You may guess what your ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson

... necessity, like the "too delicate spirit," Ariel, tasked to the "strong biddings" of the "foul witch Sycorax," was condemned for a while to pander rather than teach, to follow rather than lead, to please rather than patronize, and to halloo others' opinions ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... out of one issue the noble editorial and the exploiting advertisements and send them to the editor with our protest. Knowledge of the ingredients and dangers of patent medicines should be a prerequisite for the practice of medicine or pharmacy. We can help bring about such conditions, and we can patronize physicians who send patients to drug stores that cater to ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... who did not possess all his faculties. We meant to be very kind, and we thought every word we said was true, but was it true? Did that man sell our goods with his eyes, or did he sell them by using his tongue and his personality to persuade customers to patronize us? If he had a boy to go about with him, could he not talk as convincingly, work as hard, and, indeed, might he not put forth a greater effort to extend our business and make himself invaluable to us? This is a typical case, and one that occurs almost daily. So it is in all ...
— Five Lectures on Blindness • Kate M. Foley


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