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noun 
  1. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
His vigorous of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives.
  1. customer, Customers collectively; clientele; business.
The restaurant had an upper class .
  1. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
  2. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
  3. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; trade.
Even before noon there was a considerable .
  1. The people who ride a form of transportation. Synonym of ridership.
Translations: 
    verb 
    1. To support by being a patron of.
    2. To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.
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