PATRONAGE

Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors. It can also refer to the right of bestowing offices or church benefices, the business given to a store by a regular customer, and the guardianship of saints. The word "patron" derives from the Latin patronus, "patron," one who gives benefits to his clients .

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patronage

Noun

  1. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
    His vigorous patronage of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives.
  2. Customers collectively; clientele; business.
    The restaurant had an upper class patronage.
  3. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
  4. Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
  5. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
  6. The right of nomination to political office.
  7. The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.

Verb

  1. To support by being a patron of.
  2. To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.


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