Sample sentences for PATRONAGE

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Definition

support or favor given

The exact sense of patronage depends upon its context. For example::

"wants to increase federal patronage of the arts" — donations made to support an organization or person
"a political patronage appointee" — favors given such as political appointments or contracts given in return for political support
"rewards repeat patronage" — business from customers — especially recurring business

Most ambassadors are selected from career Foreign Service officers, but many are appointed through political patronage.

patronage = political appointment in return for political support

President James Garfield was assassinated by someone who believed Garfield owed him a patronage position in the diplomatic corps.

patronage = support and favor (in the form of a political appointment)

Private patronage of musicians and artists was common at that time.

patronage = support

Their loyalty program gives rewards in return for continuing patronage.

patronage = customer business

The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

patronage = donations of money

Murtagh, however, has denounced his father's deeds and fled Galbatorix's patronage to seek his own destiny.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
He took steps to get him a good position in a hospital, with plenty of opportunity for going on with his research, and assisted him by his patronage.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
They, however, which is to say the owner's daughter, who was at the desk when Alessandro departed, had no need of his patronage.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Leery of strong Protestant leanings in the Bohemian branch of the family, the Emperor, Rudolph II, had for a time withdrawn his patronage.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
And even could it have been found, how were the ladies on whose approval she depended to be induced to give her their patronage?
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
Your most instructive pamphlet has been widely circulated through the patronage of the bishop, and has been of appreciable service....
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
I am sorry to say that my patronage ends with this; and my interest is hardly more extensive.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
We are too old to regard fashion, too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
I would suggest that as you think her worthy of your patronage, you should exert your influence to keep her from these dangerous hands.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
He himself, he insisted, had no say on patronage.
David McCullough -- John Adams
It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Patronage does not trouble me when it is well meant.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
UNDER THE DIRECT PATRONAGE OF THE GOD TINGOU!
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
He had come, in a mood of solemn parental patronage, to look on.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt

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