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patronize

/pey-truh-nahyz, pa‐/US // ˈpeɪ trəˌnaɪz, ˈpæ‐ //UK // (ˈpætrəˌnaɪz) //

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pa·tron·ized, pa·tron·iz·ing.

    • : to give one's regular patronage; trade with.
    • : to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward: a professor who patronizes his students.
    • : to act as a patron toward; support.

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Examples

  • Tourists from the United States can still travel into Mexico and patronize businesses and restaurants there.

  • Yet, Kelly insisted, that even assuming the worst case — that it might offend a few readers — “an accusation of being patronizing would be a small price to pay for the positive results that would accrue.”

  • Juan Carlos Gil is a blind Florida man who patronized Winn-Dixie stores in the Miami area for about 15 years.

  • The couple have been grocery shopping in person, patronizing stores during less busy times, and only shopping at places where people wear masks reliably, he said.

  • Players cannot “patronize or enter internal venues other than the designated hotel, the practice facility or the game arena,” the protocols state, and each NHL city has a league-designated hotel for visiting clubs.

  • People exercise judgment all the time about what products to buy, what media to consume and what businesses they will patronize.

  • He owes it to himself as much as he does to the people he is so keen to criticize, or at least patronize.

  • Like everyone else in America who tries not to patronize the fever swamps, I went "huh?"

  • Artists themselves differ in their judgments, and many who patronize them have no severity of discrimination.

  • In the course of the afternoon nearly all the white men on hunting bent show up at the hotel and patronize the bar.

  • She was capable and kindly, and our friendship became firmly rooted when she discovered that we intended to patronize her shop.

  • He is the idol of equivocal women, and condescends to patronize unpresentable gentility-mongers.

  • It was part—and an excellent part—of the pose of Grand Monarchy to patronize literature and the sciences.

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