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patronize

verb as in support a cause

verb as in do business at an establishment

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Tourists from the United States can still travel into Mexico and patronize businesses and restaurants there.

Yet, Kelly insisted, that even assuming the worst case — that it might offend a few readers — “an accusation of being patronizing would be a small price to pay for the positive results that would accrue.”

Juan Carlos Gil is a blind Florida man who patronized Winn-Dixie stores in the Miami area for about 15 years.

The couple have been grocery shopping in person, patronizing stores during less busy times, and only shopping at places where people wear masks reliably, he said.

Players cannot “patronize or enter internal venues other than the designated hotel, the practice facility or the game arena,” the protocols state, and each NHL city has a league-designated hotel for visiting clubs.

People exercise judgment all the time about what products to buy, what media to consume and what businesses they will patronize.

He owes it to himself as much as he does to the people he is so keen to criticize, or at least patronize.

Like everyone else in America who tries not to patronize the fever swamps, I went "huh?"

Artists themselves differ in their judgments, and many who patronize them have no severity of discrimination.

In the course of the afternoon nearly all the white men on hunting bent show up at the hotel and patronize the bar.

She was capable and kindly, and our friendship became firmly rooted when she discovered that we intended to patronize her shop.

He is the idol of equivocal women, and condescends to patronize unpresentable gentility-mongers.

It was part—and an excellent part—of the pose of Grand Monarchy to patronize literature and the sciences.

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On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to patronize, such as: deign, snub, favor, indulge, stoop, and be gracious to.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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