patronize

Significat (Anglès)

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

Freqüència

C2
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈpætɹənaɪz/
Etimologia (Anglès)

From patron + -ize (verb ending); or from Old French patroniser, from Medieval Latin patronisāre (“to lead a galley as patron”).

Marca això com a favorit

Millora la teva pronunciació

Notes

Sign in to write sticky notes
anglès

Comença a aprendre anglès amb learnfeliz .

Practica parlar i memoritzar " patronize " i moltes altres paraules i frases a anglès .

Comença a aprendre anglès
Continua