If you patronize a business, you shop there regularly. But if someone patronizes you, it's not so pleasant they talk to you as if you were inferior or not very intelligent.
To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.
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
treat condescendingly
Verb
assume sponsorship of
Verb
do one''s shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
v. t.
To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance;
to favor; to aid.
v. t.
To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer.
v. t.
To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and
protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as, to patronize
one's equals.
Patronize
The idea has been patronized by two States only.2.
To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.
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