patronage🔊

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 favors 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.

To support by being a patron of.

To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize.