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patronage
[pey-truh-nij, pa‐] 
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patronage
[pey-truh-nij, pa‐]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support of a cause |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, backing, benefaction, championship, encouragement, financing, grant, guardianship, help, promotion, protection, recommendation, sponsorship, subsidy, support |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, detraction, opposition |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condescension |
| Synonyms: | civility, cronyism, deference, deigning, disdain, insolence, patronization, patronizing, stooping, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | humility, modesty |
| Main Entry: | aegis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
| Synonyms: | auspices, backing, patronage, shelter, sponsorship, wing* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
| Antonyms: | blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | auspices |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection; support |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, authority, backing, care, charge, control, countenance, guidance, influence, patronage, sponsorship, supervision |
| Main Entry: | backing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | abetment, accompaniment, adherence, advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, championing, championship, encouragement, endorsement, funds, grant, help, patronage, reinforcement, sanction, secondment, sponsorship, subsidy |
| Antonyms: | disfavor, opposition |
| Main Entry: | clientele |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customers of business |
| Synonyms: | audience, business, clientage, clientry, clients, constituency, cortege, dependents, following, market, patronage, patrons, public, regulars, trade |
| Antonyms: | management, ownership |
| Main Entry: | condescension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disdain, superiority |
| Synonyms: | airs, civility, deference, haughtiness, loftiness, lordliness, patronage, patronizing attitude, superciliousness, toleration |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, humility, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nurture, help |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advocacy, development, encouragement, enhancement, fostering, furtherance, patronage, promotion, support |
| Antonyms: | destruction, harm, hurt, neglect |
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