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What does patronize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word patronize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make a patron.
  2. (transitive) To act as a patron; to protect, defend, support.
  3. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.
  4. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
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If employees don't patronize the stores, then it's difficult to see how they can expect customers to do so.
Do locals not have rights to patronize establishments in their own country?
We need to take psychiatrically labeled people in our communities seriously, not patronize or pathologize them.
In the ad, a father tries to explain to his son why no customers patronize the family restaurant, which mainly sells pork meat-ball soup.
The means used was to patronize local rulers, draw them into relations of personal loyalty to the Emperor, and encourage their sinicization.
People who do not travel into cities to work are much less likely to patronize restaurants, theatres and shops.

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