0 past simple and past participle of patronize --
1 to speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important: --
Stop patronizing me - I understand the play as well as you do.
2 to be a regular customer of a shop or restaurant, etc.: --
The restaurant was patronized by many artists and writers during the 1920s.
Thousands of clothes dealers were interspersed throughout the urban landscape, there to be patronized by men and women who hunted out fine-fitting garments to suit their budgets.
On the one hand, "meat and fish" eating establishments are patronized not only, not even preferably, by the economic elite but also by a growing middle class.
We may also presume that women's roles in moral and domestic labour portrayed in the prize-winning books patronized by the state were at least approved, if not actively promoted.
The details of the styles patronized comprise an interesting story in themselves.
Such loss of trust and cynicism often result in citizen apathy, the feeling of being patronized, or frustration with governmental bodies.
Although one of the union's objectives was representation in the state legislature, there is no indication that the union as such patronized their candidatures.
The style is quite conversational, and the whole experience of reading it is pleasant, although the reader does not feel patronized.
These libraries (often located within bookshops) were heavily patronized by women.
