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patronage - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support of a cause |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, backing, benefaction, championship, encouragement, financing, grant, guardianship, help, promotion, protection, recommendation, sponsorship, subsidy, support |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, detraction, opposition |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business done at an establishment |
| Synonyms: | buying, clientele, commerce, custom, shopping, trade, traffic, clientage, trading |
| Antonyms: | competition |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condescension |
| Synonyms: | civility, deference, disdain, insolence, patronizing, cronyism, deigning, patronization, stooping, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | humility, modesty |
| Main Entry: | aegis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
| Synonyms: | auspices, backing, patronage, shelter, sponsorship, wing* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | auspices |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection; support |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, authority, backing, care, charge, control, countenance, guidance, influence, patronage, sponsorship, supervision |
| Main Entry: | backing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | accompaniment, adherence, advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, championship, encouragement, endorsement, funds, grant, help, patronage, reinforcement, sanction, sponsorship, subsidy, abetment, championing, secondment |
| Antonyms: | disfavor, opposition |
| Main Entry: | clientele |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customers of business |
| Synonyms: | audience, business, constituency, cortege, following, market, patronage, public, trade, clientage, clientry, clients, dependents, patrons, regulars |
| Antonyms: | management, ownership |
| Main Entry: | condescension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disdain, superiority |
| Synonyms: | airs, civility, deference, haughtiness, patronage, loftiness, lordliness, patronizing attitude, superciliousness, toleration |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, humility, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approval, good opinion; help |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation, friendliness, gift, good will*, grace, indulgence, kindness, largess, okay, partiality, patronage, present, regard, respect, service, support, token, benignity, good turn, obligement |
| Antonyms: | disapproval, disfavor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | following |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons of an interest or belief |
| Synonyms: | audience, circle, clientele, cortege, coterie, entourage, group, patronage, public, retinue, rout, suite, support, train, adherents, clientage, dependents, fans, groupies, hangers-on, patrons, supporters |
| Antonyms: | disbelievers |
| Main Entry: | government |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management, administration |
| Synonyms: | Uncle Sam*, authority, bureaucracy, command, control, direction, domination, dominion, empire, execution, executive, guidance, influence, jurisdiction, law, ministry, patronage, politics, power, predominance, regency, regime, regimentation, regulation, restraint, rule, sovereignty, state, superiority, supervision, supremacy, sway, union, Washington, governance, political practice, polity, powers-that-be, presidency, statecraft, superintendence, the feds |
| Antonyms: | anarchy, chaos, coup, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, revolt, revolution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vainglory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pride |
| Synonyms: | arrogance, conceit, condescension, egoism, haughtiness, huff, patronage, presumption, pretension, self-importance, snobbery, swagger, swelled head*, vanity, big-headedness, boastfulness, bragging, cockiness, egotism, overconfidence, smugness, strutting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pork barrel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political patronage |
| Synonyms: | melon, patronage, payola, perquisite, plum, back scratching, favors of office, logrolling, perks, political favor, pork, public crib, public till, public trough, spoils of office, taxpayer funds |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage |
| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, clientele, commerce, contract, custom, deal, enterprise, exchange, industry, interchange, market, patronage, public, swap, traffic, transaction, truck, customers, dealing, merchantry, sales |
| Main Entry: | pride |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance, self-importance |
| Synonyms: | airs, assumption, conceit, condescension, contumely, disdain, egoism, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, huff, insolence, patronage, presumption, pretension, self-love, snobbery, swagger, swelled head*, vainglory, vanity, big-headedness, cockiness, disdainfulness, egotism, immodesty, loftiness, narcissism, overconfidence, pragmatism, pretentiousness, proud flesh, self-exaltation, smugness, superbity, superciliousness |
| Antonyms: | humility, modesty, shyness, timidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | support |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, approval |
| Synonyms: | aid, assist, assistance, backing, blessing, championship, comfort, encouragement, friendship, furtherance, hand, lift, loyalty, patronage, protection, relief, succor, sustenance, moral support |
| Antonyms: | block, disapproval, discouragement, frustration, opposition, stop |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, closeness, commerce, communication, communion, connection, custom, dealings*, doings*, exchange, familiarity, industry, interchange, intercourse, intimacy, patronage, relationship, soliciting, trade, truck*, dealing, merchantry, peddling, relations, transactions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nurture, help |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advocacy, development, encouragement, enhancement, furtherance, patronage, promotion, support, fostering |
| Antonyms: | destruction, harm, hurt, neglect |
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