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"word": "parrainage"
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"sense": "the act of providing approval and support",
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"word": "ше́фство"
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"roman": "popečítelʹstvo",
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"text": "The restaurant had an upper-class patronage.",
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"ref": "1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 590–591",
"text": "The improved service to and from Taunton is fully justified by the passenger patronage to and from this town, which is a railhead for a large surrounding area.",
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"ref": "2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54",
"text": "In addition to employment in the area, once you factor in the patronage of people visiting the various sites, it's not difficult to see why it's being redeveloped. The current station building is tiny in comparison to other stations with a similar patronage.",
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"roman": "klientela",
"sense": "customers collectively; clientele; business",
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"roman": "pelateía",
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"text": "The restaurant had \"Thank you for your patronage!\" printed on its take-out bags.",
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"A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain."
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"sense": "a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient",
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"word": "alentuvuus"
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"roman": "patronárisma",
"sense": "a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient",
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"neuter"
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"word": "πατρονάρισμα"
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"roman": "snisxodítelʹnostʹ",
"sense": "a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "снисходи́тельность"
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"ref": "2015, Thomas J. Gradel, Dick Simpson, Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality, University of Illinois Press, page 117",
"text": "Patronage, nepotism, cronyism, abuse of power, and criminal activity flourish, sometimes for decades, in numerous town halls, police stations, and special-purpose government agencies in the suburbs.",
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"roman": "klientelizǎm",
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"sense": "granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support",
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"roman": "patronáž",
"sense": "granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support",
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"word": "патрона́ж"
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"sense": "guardianship, as of a saint",
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"ref": "2003, Hubert Michael Seiwert, Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History, BRILL, page 62",
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"ref": "2004, C.K. Gandhirajan, Organized Crime, APH Publishing Corporation, page 147",
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"ref": "2007, Stefaan Fiers, Ineke Secker, “6, A Career through the Party”, in Maurizio Cotta, Heinrich Best, editors, Democratic Representation in Europe, Oxford University Press, page 138",
"text": "To summarize: a person with a party political background is thus defined as ‘a person that has served in (a) […] and/or (b) a non-elective position inside the party administration of patronaged position in another organisation, i.e. the political functionary’.",
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"ref": "c. 1880, The Primary Teacher, volume 3, New-England Publishing Company, page 63",
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"ref": "1902 May 30, Oregon Poultry Journal, page 27",
"text": "Mr. F. A. Welch, of the Oak View Poultry Farm, Salem, starts an add with us this issue. […] Our readers will be treated well, if they patronage Mr. Welch.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2002, Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, SUNY Press, page 28",
"text": "Most public establishments catered to Blacks, and Whites actively patronaged some black-owned businesses (Martin 1982, 6, 9–11; Slingsby 1980, 31–32).",
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