If you give a store or business your support (financial or otherwise) as a customer or client, you are giving them your patronage. Great philanthropists are often known for their patronage, or financial support, of the arts.
Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work;
Noun
the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; "even before noon there was a considerable patronage"
Noun
(politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
Noun
the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
Noun
a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
Noun
customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele"
Verb
be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"
Verb
support by being a patron of
n.
Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or
aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters;
patronage given to an author.
n.
Business custom.
n.
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
n.
The right of nomination to political office; also, the
offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by
favor.
n.
The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical
benefice; advowson.
v. t.
To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
Patronage
Patronage
Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work;
To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
Usage Examples
Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
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