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Definition of patronize in English: patronize(British patronise) verb ˈpatrənʌɪz [with object]1Treat in a way that is apparently kind or helpful but that betrays a feeling of superiority. 对…以施惠人自居，以高人一等的态度对待 she was determined not to be put down or patronized 她决心不让别人贬低自己或以恩人自居。 Example sentencesExamples - Many housing executives view people from a very paternalistic and patronizing attitude.
- Apparently 72% of people have found letters from some organisations so patronising, insulting, confusing and full of jargon that they have cut all ties with them.
- Other times a high level of support is intrusive and patronising.
- You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be.
- And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending.
- She listened to their complaints and she offered some criticism of her own but she was never patronizing or condescending.
- Removing responsibility from victims is not a kindness; it is patronizing and perpetuates the problem.
- All are born aristocrats, and their bearing is dignified, even though at times it is also a tiny bit arrogant and patronizing.
- The vast majority won't and it's more than patronising to assume they aren't worthy of democracy.
- In the past financial institutions may have taken a patronising attitude towards women.
- They are patronizing and condescending to their clients (not to mention deceptive).
- These last shots betray a sentimentality and patronizing attitude inherent in the film's setting.
- Despite the superior and patronizing tone of his voice, there was a deep concern.
- My voice was patronizing, and Ben turned and glared at me.
- That kind of helpful ‘input’ is a tad patronizing.
- This paternalistic idea is patronising to many hardworking families who make a myriad of complicated choices every day.
- They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
- Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing?
- Ellis is a decent man in many ways, but he has a loftiness, an aloofness, that supporters and players find patronising.
- It was, in some cases, patronizing to the point of contempt.
Synonyms treat condescendingly, treat with condescension, condescend to, look down on, talk down to, put down, humiliate, treat like a child, treat as inferior, treat with disdain, treat contemptuously, treat scornfully, be snobbish to, look down one's nose at condescending, supercilious, superior, imperious, haughty, lofty, lordly, magisterial, disdainful, scornful, contemptuous, cavalier, snobbish, pompous 2Frequent (a shop, restaurant, or other establishment) as a customer. （经常）惠顾，光顾（商店、剧院或别的机构） restaurants and bars regularly patronized by the stars were often crowded with paparazzi Example sentencesExamples - Man, if I lived in San Francisco, I'd be patronizing his shop daily.
- He said two types of consumers patronize dollar stores.
- 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.
- In some urban shopping centres cinemas are another excuse for patronising the local shops.
- They run the neighborhood restaurants, bicycle stores, and flower shops you patronize.
- Nobody is forcing shoppers to patronize grocery stores that offer discount cards.
- In the past many visitors have patronized my shop and this is usually quite profitable.
- Bar owners and restaurant owners are complaining of a decrease in revenue, as people are staying home and not patronising the establishments.
- People who do not travel into cities to work are much less likely to patronize restaurants, theatres and shops.
- Consumers can help, too, by patronising their local shops and shunning the multiples.
- Do locals not have rights to patronize establishments in their own country?
- Sponsorships like these keep the store's name firmly in the minds of local bowhunters and motivate them to patronize the store.
- If employees don't patronize the stores, then it's difficult to see how they can expect customers to do so.
- Expensive restaurants are patronized at supper time by a new breed of business executives who combine dining with professional interaction.
- This is a great time to patronize your local shops, too, they'll be liquidating as well.
- There you will be able to patronise the verandah café, enjoy the gardens, and visit the mini vineyard.
- ‘Such food festivals are popular because those who regularly patronize the restaurant, appreciate a change in the menu,’ he added.
- I like to patronise local restaurants as well as ones that are exotic and new.
- Some customers patronize the store every two or three months; some of the very top spenders come in three to five times a week.
- Only the most determined and wealthy supermarket-haters will continue to patronise the small shops that are trying to make a go of it again.
Synonyms do business with, buy from, shop at, be a customer of, be a client of, bring trade/custom to, deal with, trade with frequent, haunt, attend, visit subscribe to, join, become a member of, support informal hang out at - 2.1 Give financial or other support to (a person, organization, or cause)
she patronizes worthy causes Example sentencesExamples - Opposite this building was the Alexandra Tea Room, at 18 Rissik Street, which Gandhi used to patronise and support financially, and where he promoted vegetarianism.
- Those who did not go this far might nevertheless insure their souls and those of their family by founding or patronizing a religious community.
- She promoted courtly love and patronized important poets of the day.
- He promoted and patronised the artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood hoping they might provide a new and noble British Art.
- The emperor, his family and his officials patronized poets, philosophers and painters.
- Is it really the type of organization you should be patronizing?
- He was patronized by the Pisani family and he was the official portrait painter to the Venetian academy.
- The organisers thank all who patronised the function and also everyone who donated prizes for the raffle.
- The organisers wish to thank all who patronised the event.
- Members create, finance and patronize the cooperative.
- Religion was similarly important, as he patronized Lutheran pastors and sponsored Lutheran children in this confessionally-mixed city.
- They also proved quite cultured, patronising art and architecture and encouraging literary pursuits.
- While artists working in cities had their own studios, provincial painters were usually itinerants and sometimes lived with the families who patronized them.
Synonyms sponsor, back, fund, finance, be a patron of, promote, further, foster, help, aid, assist, support, encourage, champion, protect
Derivativesnoun patrənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n With such a patronization, publishers can price such journals at will, and still sell them. Example sentencesExamples - She looks down at me, sympathetic with a hint of patronization.
- This is a display of nauseating deference; a offensive patronization of the man matched only by his undeserved canonisation.
- France, more so Paris, is known for appreciation and patronisation of finer things of life.
- Jacob laughed quietly, the expression never changing from one of amused patronization.
noun ˈpatrənʌɪzə As parties, they're all the same to me now: populists, cynics, game-players and patronisers of one sort or another. Example sentencesExamples - The organising committee might just wonder whether it is worth the aggravation sending some of its patronisers to the doghouse.
adverb ˈpatrənʌɪzɪŋli And this sounds so patronizingly middle class of me, but that's not how I mean it. Example sentencesExamples - Here, he smiles patronizingly and thinks for a minute, and says ‘Are you out here all the time?’
- ‘I'm your worst nightmare, love’ I said as patronizingly as possible.
Definition of patronize in US English: patronize(British patronise) verb [with object]1Treat in a way that is apparently kind or helpful but that betrays a feeling of superiority. 对…以施惠人自居，以高人一等的态度对待 she was determined not to be put down or patronized 她决心不让别人贬低自己或以恩人自居。 Example sentencesExamples - These last shots betray a sentimentality and patronizing attitude inherent in the film's setting.
- Many housing executives view people from a very paternalistic and patronizing attitude.
- Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing?
- They are patronizing and condescending to their clients (not to mention deceptive).
- She listened to their complaints and she offered some criticism of her own but she was never patronizing or condescending.
- Ellis is a decent man in many ways, but he has a loftiness, an aloofness, that supporters and players find patronising.
- They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
- My voice was patronizing, and Ben turned and glared at me.
- This paternalistic idea is patronising to many hardworking families who make a myriad of complicated choices every day.
- Other times a high level of support is intrusive and patronising.
- Removing responsibility from victims is not a kindness; it is patronizing and perpetuates the problem.
- And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending.
- The vast majority won't and it's more than patronising to assume they aren't worthy of democracy.
- Apparently 72% of people have found letters from some organisations so patronising, insulting, confusing and full of jargon that they have cut all ties with them.
- In the past financial institutions may have taken a patronising attitude towards women.
- You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be.
- That kind of helpful ‘input’ is a tad patronizing.
- Despite the superior and patronizing tone of his voice, there was a deep concern.
- All are born aristocrats, and their bearing is dignified, even though at times it is also a tiny bit arrogant and patronizing.
- It was, in some cases, patronizing to the point of contempt.
Synonyms treat condescendingly, treat with condescension, condescend to, look down on, talk down to, put down, humiliate, treat like a child, treat as inferior, treat with disdain, treat contemptuously, treat scornfully, be snobbish to, look down one's nose at condescending, supercilious, superior, imperious, haughty, lofty, lordly, magisterial, disdainful, scornful, contemptuous, cavalier, snobbish, pompous 2Frequent (a store, theater, restaurant, or other establishment) as a customer. （经常）惠顾，光顾（商店、剧院或别的机构） restaurants remaining open in the evening were well patronized 晚上继续营业的饭店经常有很多顾客光顾。 Example sentencesExamples - This is a great time to patronize your local shops, too, they'll be liquidating as well.
- If employees don't patronize the stores, then it's difficult to see how they can expect customers to do so.
- Only the most determined and wealthy supermarket-haters will continue to patronise the small shops that are trying to make a go of it again.
- There you will be able to patronise the verandah café, enjoy the gardens, and visit the mini vineyard.
- Some customers patronize the store every two or three months; some of the very top spenders come in three to five times a week.
- People who do not travel into cities to work are much less likely to patronize restaurants, theatres and shops.
- Consumers can help, too, by patronising their local shops and shunning the multiples.
- Nobody is forcing shoppers to patronize grocery stores that offer discount cards.
- ‘Such food festivals are popular because those who regularly patronize the restaurant, appreciate a change in the menu,’ he added.
- Do locals not have rights to patronize establishments in their own country?
- Bar owners and restaurant owners are complaining of a decrease in revenue, as people are staying home and not patronising the establishments.
- 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.
- In some urban shopping centres cinemas are another excuse for patronising the local shops.
- Sponsorships like these keep the store's name firmly in the minds of local bowhunters and motivate them to patronize the store.
- He said two types of consumers patronize dollar stores.
- I like to patronise local restaurants as well as ones that are exotic and new.
- Expensive restaurants are patronized at supper time by a new breed of business executives who combine dining with professional interaction.
- They run the neighborhood restaurants, bicycle stores, and flower shops you patronize.
- In the past many visitors have patronized my shop and this is usually quite profitable.
- Man, if I lived in San Francisco, I'd be patronizing his shop daily.
Synonyms do business with, buy from, shop at, be a customer of, be a client of, bring custom to, bring trade to, deal with, trade with - 2.1 Give encouragement and financial support to (a person, especially an artist, or a cause)
资助，赞助 local churches and voluntary organizations were patronized by the family 当地的教堂和志愿者组织均由该家族赞助。 Example sentencesExamples - Those who did not go this far might nevertheless insure their souls and those of their family by founding or patronizing a religious community.
- Is it really the type of organization you should be patronizing?
- She promoted courtly love and patronized important poets of the day.
- He was patronized by the Pisani family and he was the official portrait painter to the Venetian academy.
- He promoted and patronised the artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood hoping they might provide a new and noble British Art.
- Opposite this building was the Alexandra Tea Room, at 18 Rissik Street, which Gandhi used to patronise and support financially, and where he promoted vegetarianism.
- While artists working in cities had their own studios, provincial painters were usually itinerants and sometimes lived with the families who patronized them.
- They also proved quite cultured, patronising art and architecture and encouraging literary pursuits.
- Members create, finance and patronize the cooperative.
- Religion was similarly important, as he patronized Lutheran pastors and sponsored Lutheran children in this confessionally-mixed city.
- The organisers thank all who patronised the function and also everyone who donated prizes for the raffle.
- The organisers wish to thank all who patronised the event.
- The emperor, his family and his officials patronized poets, philosophers and painters.
Synonyms sponsor, back, fund, finance, be a patron of, promote, further, foster, help, aid, assist, support, encourage, champion, protect
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