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Definition
support or favor givenThe 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.
- Private patronage of musicians and artists was common at that time.
- Their loyalty program gives rewards in return for continuing patronage.
- 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
- 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- Leery of strong Protestant leanings in the Bohemian branch of the family, the Emperor, Rudolph II, had for a time withdrawn his patronage.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49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
patronage = support and favor (in the form of a political appointment)
patronage = support
patronage = customer business
patronage = donations of money
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