0 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.
1 to be a regular customer of a shop or restaurant, etc.:
The restaurant was patronized by many artists and writers during the 1920s.
2 to treat others in a manner that shows you consider yourself to be better or more important than they are:
3 to be a regular customer of a shop, restaurant, hotel, etc.:
Special offer coupons can be effective in motivating shoppers to patronize certain establishments.
4 to speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important:
Additional research has found that 70% of people feel patronised by advertising.
5 to support an activity or a public organization, especially by giving money:
Which musicians and genres should be patronized was determined by their putative 'natural' audience in society at large.
Evaluative perceptions of patronizing speech addressed to institutionalized elders in contrasting conversational contexts.
Evaluative perceptions of patronizing speech addressed to elders.
How the local population reacted to their new existence as a contested and often patronized community reveals the complicated subtext to the region's history.
However, it seemed to be one of the more frequently patronized courier services.
Shopping centers are typically, but not exclusively, patronized by secular middle and upper middle classes, who often reside in new kinds of suburban, residential areas.
They seem to have been patronized primarily by men from the nobility, wealthy burghers and 'non-nobles of high standing'.
Here are cultures with patronizing to external practice.
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表現高傲, 屈尊俯就地對待, 對…擺出高人一等的姿態…
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表现高傲, 屈尊俯就地对待, 对…摆出高人一等的派头…
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tratar con condescendencia, ser cliente de, frecuentar…
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tratar com condescendência, ser cliente de, frequentar…
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büyüklük/patronluk/üstünlük taslamak, devamlı müşterisi olmak, müdavimi olmak…
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traiter avec condescendance, fréquenter…
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chovat se blahosklonně, pravidelně chodit…
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behandle nedladende, patronisere, være fast kunde i…
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