Synonyms of the word

patronage

• n. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
• n. Customers collectively; clientele; business.
• n. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
• n. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political…
• n. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
• n. The right of nomination to political office.
• n. (Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
• v. (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
• v. (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.

approval

• n. An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that…
• n. An expression of favorable acceptance and encouragement; a compliment that also condones.
• n. (especially philately) Something mailed by a seller to a collector to match his stated interests; he can…

approving

• adj. Expressing approbation; commending.
• v. present participle of approve.

backing

• n. Support, especially financial.
• n. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
• n. (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
• adj. (music) That which provides support for the main performer.
• v. present participle of back.

backup

• n. A reserve or substitute.
• n. (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover…
• n. An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement…
• n. (law enforcement) reinforcements.
• adj. Standby, reserve or extra.
• adj. (computing) That is intended as a backup.
• v. Misspelling of back up.

blessing

• n. Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
• n. A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
• n. Good fortune.
• n. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
• n. The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
• n. A thing one is glad of.
• n. A prayer before a meal; grace.
• n. A group of unicorns.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

championship

• n. (sports) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
• n. The position of champion, or winner.
• n. Defense or support of some cause.

clientele

• n. The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered…

condescension

• n. The act of condescending; a manner of behaving toward others in an outwardly polite way that nevertheless…
• n. (usually uncountable, pejorative) A patronizing attitude or behavior.

depreciation

• n. The state of being depreciated.
• n. The decline in value of assets.
• n. (accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which…

derogation

• n. An act which belittles; disparagement.
• n. (law) The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law.

disdain

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
• n. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
• v. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

disparagement

• n. The act of disparaging, of belittling.

foster

• adj. Providing parental care to unrelated children.
• adj. Receiving such care.
• adj. Related by such care.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A forester.
• n. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
• v. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
• v. (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
• v. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.

keep

• v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
• v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
• v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
• v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
• v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
• v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
• n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
• n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
• n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
• n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
• n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
• n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
• n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

maintain

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
• v. To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
• v. To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

nurture

• n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
• n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
• n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
• v. To nourish or nurse.
• v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

patronise

• v. To make a patron.
• v. To treat as inferior unfairly, talk down to, treat condescendingly.
• v. To make oneself a regular customer of a business.

patronize

• v. (transitive) To make a patron.
• v. (transitive) To act as a patron; to protect, defend, support.
• v. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.
• v. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

people

• n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two…
• n. (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group,…
• n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
• n. One's colleagues or employees.
• n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
• n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
• n. plural of person.
• v. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
• v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
• v. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

sustain

• n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
• v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
• v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
• v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
• v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
• v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
• v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

trade

• n. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
• n. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
• n. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
• n. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
• n. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
• n. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• n. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional…
• n. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
• n. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
• n. (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
• n. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
• n. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
• n. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in trade.
• v. (intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
• v. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).