meaning of patronage
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.
3. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
4. The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc. , which a public officer may bestow by favor.
5. The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
6. To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
7. the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; "even before noon there was a considerable
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