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词汇 patronage
释义 patronage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈpæt.rə.nɪdʒ//ˈpeɪ.trən.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈpæt.rə.nɪdʒ//ˈpeɪ.trən.ɪdʒ/

patronagenoun[U] (SUPPORT)


the support given to an organization by someone: 赞助,资助
The charity enjoys the patronage of many prominent local business people.这家慈善机构获得了本地许多重要的商人的赞助。
mainly disapproving
the power of a person to give someone an important job or position: 任命权
Patronage is a potent force if used politically.任命权用在政治上会成为一种强大的力量。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Backing, supporting & defending
adopt
advocacy
affirmation
ally yourself to/with someone
argumentation
bail out
bet
buoy
champion
commitment
over-favour
pander to someone/something
prop something up
provide
provide for someone
root
solidly
sustenance
underpin
wave/show/fly the flagidiom

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Applying for a job

patronagenoun[U] (CUSTOMERS)


formal
the business given to a shop or restaurant, etc. by its customers: 惠顾,光顾
We would like to thank all of our customers for their patronage in the past.我们要感谢所有顾客过去的惠顾。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who buy things
anti-consumer
bidder
buyer
consumer
couponer
end user
foot traffic
importer
late adopter
multi-client
personal shopper
prosumer
purchaser
rag-and-bone man
ragman
speculator
subscriber
tradesman
tradespeople
wholesaler

patronage | American Dictionary


patronage
noun[ U ]
us/ˈpeɪ·trə·nɪdʒ, ˈpæ-/
esp. disapproving
the power to give someone an important job or advantages in exchange for help or support:
New rules would minimize the effects of political patronage.

patronage | Business English


patronage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈpætrənɪdʒ, ˈpeɪtrənɪdʒ/us
COMMERCE
the business given to a shop, restaurant, hotel, etc. by its customers:
Many wealthy Japanese have shifted their patronage to the new Western luxury hotels.
support given to a public organization, especially by giving money:
The company is famous for its arts patronage.
disapproving
a situation in which a person gives someone an important job or position in return for their support:
They plan to abolish patronage and place the appointment of senior law officers in the hands of an independent appointments board.

Examples of patronage


patronage
The traffic in patronage was far from all one way.
The 'new men' themselves often rose to local prominence partly through the tenurial patronage of a county aristocracy anxious to win their support and influence.
A third reason was that the operation of politics and patronage often required or encouraged lords to alienate land on favourable terms.
On the contrary, patterns of patronage and marketing ensured that it was the most widely seen and reproduced of all.
Few labouring poets received so much patronage, either from individuals or by subscription.
Political power in a county, nonetheless, did demand that the politician make efficient use of patronage to help his friends.
The bare news of such a match is a valuable commodity in the patronage marketplace.
A man without family - by marriage or by formal or informal adoption if not by blood - cannot expect to gain patronage.
A destructive confrontation with father, family, and culture forced him to find other forms of patronage and love, no longer feudal in principle.
Alongside the formal institutions were more informal ones, such as the patronage system.
Relics embodied the saint in this world and gave patronage to the community that preserved them.
Still, examples of this whole slippery incident can be reduced to the same parameters as the more clear-cut professional patronage described in this section.
Other cases came to the crown's notice through networks of patronage, which reinforced hierarchy and deference at every level.
Aristocratic patronage was the backbone of the event.
Yoruba railwaymen came to stable wage labor to become men through accumulating money to marry, build houses, or create patronage relations.
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Collocations withpatronage


patronage

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patronage network
Legitimacy in protest no longer arose through membership in a patronage network.
political patronage
Publishers can support their media with three basic kinds of revenue: politicalpatronage from a politician or party, government subsidies, or advertising.
private patronage
But it did not fundamentally challenge the supremacy of private patronage.
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