To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
To support by being a patron of.
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 subordinate to someone or something.
To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.