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Patronise

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






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"Patronise" Quotes from Famous Books



... took certain trees (th' affair Was some time since) into their care. The oak was best approved by Jove, The myrtle by the queen of love; The god of music and the day Vouchsafed to patronise the bay; The pine Cybele chanced to please, And the tall poplar Hercules. Minerva upon this inquired Why they all barren trees admired? "The cause," says Jupiter, "is plain, Lest we give honour up for gain." "Let every one their fancy suit, I choose ...
— The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus

... an early hour at the hotel she resolved to patronise: a quiet, old-fashioned house in the best part of the Rue de Rivoli, overlooking the gardens ...
— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

... which is the reason why we patronise your dog-hole of an inn. See that the two Excellencies breakfast together at a ...
— In Kedar's Tents • Henry Seton Merriman

... up. George Fox recommends waiting on these occasions. I wait. Nothing comes. G. Fox—that sets me off again. I have finished the Journal, and 400 more pages of the Doctrinals, which I picked up for 7s. 6d. If I get on at this rate, the Society will be in danger of having two Quaker poets—to patronise. I am at Dalston now, but if, when I go back to Cov. Gar., I find thy friend has not call'd for the Journal, thee must put me in a way of sending it; and if it should happen that the Lender of it, having that volume, ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... his desire to patronise the young Master of Angus, examined both Sir Patrick and Lady Drummond as far as their caution would allow, telling that the youth had confessed his rank and admitted the cause—making inquiry whether the match would be held suitable in Scotland, ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge


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