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▸ 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.
▸ noun: Patronising speech or behaviour.
▸ verb: (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
Similar:
patronize,
clientele,
business,
trade,
backing,
support,
condescension,
disdain,
championship,
sponsorship,
more...
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Adjectives:
royal,
political,
federal,
public,
official,
liberal,
imperial,
private,
ecclesiastical,
aristocratic,
extensive
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