Definitions from Wiktionary (patronize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To blame, to reproach.
▸ Also see patronize

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