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.
To sustain; to provide support for.
To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
A structure that provides support for some other material.
A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.