名词
1. 资助；赞助
Patronage is the support and money given by someone to a person or a group such as a charity.
1. the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
e.g. even before noon there was a considerable patronage
Synonym: trade
2. (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
3. the act of providing approval and support
e.g. his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives
Synonym: backingbackupchampionship
4. a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
Synonym: condescensiondisdain
5. customers collectively
e.g. they have an upper class clientele