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patronised

verb

Meaning

  1. To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
  2. To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
  3. To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
  4. To blame, to reproach.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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