To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
To cherish; to comfort.
To support by being a patron of.
To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
The act or state of being a customer of some business.
Customers collectively; clientele; business.
A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
The right of nomination to political office.
Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.