Patronise

  

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Patronise

Definitions: Patronise

Patronise

Verb

1. Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of.

2. Assume sponsorship of.

3. Treat condescendingly.

4. Be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "patronise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

"Patronise" is a common misspelling or typo for: patronize, patronized.



Synonyms: Patronise

Synonyms: buy at (v), condescend (v), frequent (v), keep going (v), patronage (v), patronize (v), shop (v), shop at (v), sponsor (v), support (v). (additional references)
Antonym: boycott (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Patronise

Specialty definitions using "patronise": Wing, Wings. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Patronise

"Patronise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.30% of the time. "Patronise" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)87.3%5545,713
Lexical Verb (base form)7.94%5157,705
Noun (proper)4.76%3202,518
                    Total100.00%63N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Patronise

Language Translations for "patronise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

proteggere (cover, defend, Favor, favour, guard, muffle, overshadow, patronize, preserve, promote, protect, scorers, screen, shade, shelter, shield, take care, ward), patrocinare (advocate, defend, patronize, plead, sponsor, support), frequentare (associate with, date, frequent, go often to, go round with, haunt, patronize, rub shoulder, see one another), favorire (accommodate, encourage, favor, favour, Foster, further, grace, help, patronize, promote, support), essere cliente (patronize), condiscendere (condescend, patronize), appoggiare (abet, countenance, forward, lay, lean, patronize, prop, rely, rest, stand, support, sustain). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atronisepay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Patronise

Derivations

Words beginning with "patronise": patronised, patronises. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Patronise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: atropines.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: atropine, atropins, notaries, operants, painters, pantries, pertains, pinaster, pointers, porniest, pristane, pronates, proteans, proteins, repaints, saponite, senorita, tropines.

-2 letters: airpost, anestri, antsier, aroints, arpents, atoners, atonies, atopies, atropin, entraps, epinaos, erasion, esparto, nastier, norites, oestrin, operant, opiates, orients, orpines, painter, paniers, panties, parents, parties, partons, pastern, pastier, patines, patrons, persona, pertain, piaster, piastre, pintoes, pirates, pointer, pointes, postern, pronate, prostie, protean, proteas, protein, pterins, rapines, ratines, rations, repaint, reposit, retains, retinas, retsina, riposte, ropiest, sapient, seaport, senator, senopia, soapier, soprani, spinate, spirant, stainer, stearin, stonier, tarpons, teopans, traipse, treason, trepans, tropine, tropins.

-3 letters: airest, antres, aorist, aprons, ariose, arisen, aristo, aroint, arpens, arpent, arseno, arsine, arsino, aspire, astern, atoner, atones, enrapt, entrap, esprit, estrin, inerts, insert, instar, instep, inters, intros, irones, nestor, netops, niters, nitres, nitros, norias, norite, nosier, noters, oaters, operas, opiate, opines, orates, orient, ornate, orpine, orpins, paeons, paints, panier, pantie, pantos, parent, pareos, paries, parson, parton, paster, pastie, pastor, patens, paters, patine, patins, patios, patois, patron, person, petsai, pianos, pietas, pineta, pinots, pintas, pintos, pirate, piston, pitons, pointe, points, poiser, ponies, pontes, poster, postin, potsie, praise, prates, presto, priest, prints, prions, prison, prosit, protea, protei, pterin, ptisan, rapine, rapist, ratine, ration, ratios, reason, repast, repins, repots, respot, retain, retina, ripens, ripest, ripost, santir, sapote, satire, satori, senior, senora, sinter, sniper, soaper, sopite, sortie, spinet, spinor, spinto, spirea, sprain, sprent, sprint, sprite, sterna, stoner, stoper, strain, striae, stripe, tapers, tapirs, tarpon, tenias, tenors, tensor, teopan, terais, tineas, tisane, toners, tonier, topers, tories, trains, trapes, trepan, triens, trines, triose, tripes, tripos, tronas, trones, tropes, tropin.

-4 letters: aeons, airns, airts, anise, antes, antis, antre, apers, aport, apres, apron, apter, arise, arose, arpen, arson, aspen, asper, aster, astir, atone, atrip, earns, entia, eosin, estop, etnas, inapt, inept, inert, inset, inter, intro, iotas, irate, irone, irons, napes, nares, naris, nates, neaps, nears, neats, neist, nerts, netop, nipas, niter, nites, nitre, nitro, noirs, noise, noria, noris, noter, notes, oaten, oater, onset, opens, opera, opine, opsin, orate, ornis, orpin, osier, ostia, paeon, pains, paint, pairs, paise, panes, panto, pants, pareo, pares, paris, parse, parts, paseo, paste, paten, pater, pates, patin, patio, peans, pears, peart, peats, peins, penis, peons, peris, pesto, piano, pians, piers, pieta, pinas, pines, pinot, pinta, pinto, pints, pions, pirns, piste, pitas, piton, poets, point, poise, pones, pores, porns, ports, poser, posit, praos, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, print, prion, prise, proas, prone, prose, prost, psoae, psoai, rains, raise, ranis, rants, rapes, rates, ratio, ratos.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: operations, patronised, patronises, patronizes, predations, pretorians, protamines, proteinase, reappoints, separation, waitperson.

 

+2 letters: antileprosy, antistrophe, ceratopsian, desperation, euphoriants, expirations, fortepianos, hierophants, hypertonias, impersonate, importances, misanthrope, patrimonies, permeations, perorations, personalist, personality, personating, personation, personative, pianofortes, praetorians, pratincoles, precautions, profanities, propionates, proteinases, reparations, reputations, respiration, senatorship, separations, supernation, trampolines, waitpersons.

 

+3 letters: aminopterins, anisotropies, antistrophes, arsenopyrite, attorneyship, ceratopsians, chiropterans, cooperations, crepitations, deportations, depravations, deprecations, depredations, deprivations, desperations, dispensatory, emancipators, endoparasite, evaporations, exasperation, explorations, exportations, expurgations, extirpations, housepainter, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetrations, importancies, imprecations, impregnators, incorporates, inspectorate, interpolates, misanthropes, narcoleptics, neuropathies, operationism, operationist, outspreading, partitioners, penetrations, percolations, perennations, perforations, permutations, personalists, personalties, personations, perspiration, pertinacious, potentiators, predications, predominates, prehistorian, prelibations, prenominates, preparations, presentation, preservation, probationers, procreations, proletarians, proteinurias, protestation, reapportions, reassumption, relationship, reoperations, repartitions, replications, reprobations, repudiations, respirations, senatorships, stenographic, supernations, superstation, trampoliners, transpontine, trepanations, trepidations.

 

+4 letters: anisometropia, anisometropic, antipersonnel, antiphonaries, antipredators, apperceptions, appreciations, arsenopyrites, attorneyships, azathioprines, bipropellants, containership, copartnership, coplanarities, depreciations, deuteranopias, enantiomorphs, endoparasites, endoparasitic, enteropathies, ethnographies, exasperations, expatriations, flavoproteins, housepainters, impersonality, impersonating, impersonation, impersonators, impregnations, inoperculates, inspectorates, insupportable, intercompares, interpersonal, interpolators, intrapersonal, lepidopterans, lycanthropies, metropolitans, misanthropies, mousetrapping, naturopathies, nephropathies, nonabsorptive, operationisms, operationists, operativeness, paramountcies, perpetrations, perpetuations, perseveration, personalistic, personalities, perspirations, perturbations, petrifactions, pictorialness, plantocracies, practitioners, predestinator, preformations, prehistorians, prepositional, presentations, preservations, privatdocents, privatdozents, procrastinate, prognosticate, proteinaceous, protestations, protonotaries, proximateness, putrefactions, reassumptions, recuperations, relationships, reoccupations, repatriations, replantations, repopulations, retinopathies, rhinoplasties, saprogenicity, separationist, septentrional, spermatogenic, spermatogonia, sportsmanlike, stenographies, streptokinase, superaddition, superfetation, supernational, superordinate, superromantic, superstations, temporariness, terpsichorean, trephinations, trichopterans, unimportances, vituperations.

 

+5 letters: actinomorphies, anisometropias, anthropologies, anticensorship, antidepression, apportionments, asthenospheric, cinematographs, containerports, containerships, contemporaries, contraceptions, contraceptives, contrapositive, convertiplanes, cooperationist, copartnerships, decrepitations, dispensatories, endoparasitism, expectorations, expropriations, extrapolations, hypnotherapies, hypnotherapist, impersonations, interpellators, interpolations, isentropically, magnetospheric, metamorphosing, operationalism, operationalist, pantisocracies, pasteurization, pentobarbitals, perambulations, peregrinations, periodizations, perseverations, pertinaciously, petrifications, phenobarbitals, philanthropies, photoreactions, polymerisation, postliberation, preadaptations, precipitations, predestination, predestinators, predominations, prefigurations, premeditations, prenominations, preoccupations, preordainments, preordinations, presentational, pressurization, prevarications, procrastinated, procrastinates, profitableness, progestational, prognosticated, prognosticates, proletarianise, proliferations, proportionates, prothonotaries, pulverizations, reapplications, reappointments, reciprocations, recompilations, recomputations, reduplications, reexportations, reimportations, reincorporates, representation, repristination, republications, repudiationist, repunctuations, separationists, spermatogonial, spermatogonium, spinthariscope, sportfisherman, stereographing, streptokinases, superadditions, superannuation, superelevation, supererogation, superfetations, supernormality, superovulating, superovulation, teleportations, temporizations, treponematosis, ultraprecision, unpopularities, waterproofings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Patronise


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 74 72 6F 6E 69 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#116 &#114 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0074 0072 006F 006E 0069 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

506786848180758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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