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Patronage
Patronage Pa"tron*age, n. [F. patronage. Cf. LL. patronaticum,
and L. patronatus.]
1. 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.
2. Business custom. [Commercial Cant]
3. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care. --Addison.
4. The right of nomination to political office; also, the
offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer
may bestow by favor.
5. (Eng. Law) The right of presentation to church or
ecclesiastical benefice; advowson. --Blackstone.
Patronage
Patronage Pa"tron*age, v. t.
To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend. [Obs.] --Shak.
Meaning of Patronage from wikipedia
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Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or
financial aid that an
organization or
individual bestows on another. In the
history of art, arts...
- Look up
patronage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or
financial aid that an
organization or individual...
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Patronage is a four
volume fictional work by Anglo-Irish
writer Maria Edgeworth and
published in 1814. It is one of her
later books,
after such successes...
- In
politics and government, a
spoils system (also
known as a
patronage system) is a
practice in
which a
political party,
after winning an election, gives...
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Patronage concentration is a term used in
marketing and retailing. It is the
share of an
individual consumer's
expenditures in an
industry or
retail sector...
- The
Patronage Olier is a
football club
founded in 1895, and
located in Paris, France. In 1895,
Abbot Gaston Simard de Pitray, a Sulpician,
founded a football...
- Ceann:
Kinghorn and Kingussie, for example, are
nothing to do with
royal patronage. Cramond,
formerly referred to as
Cramond Regis.
North and
South Queensferry...
- In
public transportation,
ridership refers to the
number of
people using a
transit service. It is
often summed or
otherwise aggregated over some period...
- century, the
parliamentary secretary to the
Treasury was
referred to as the
patronage secretary to the Treasury.
Edward Ellice 1830–1832
Charles Wood 1832–1834...
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Royal patronage may
refer to:
Fount of honour, a
representative of a
sovereign or
formerly sovereign entity who, by
virtue of his or her
official position...
