patronize

Senso (Inglese)

  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.

Concetti

trattare con condiscendenza

trattare dall'alto in basso

trattare con sufficienza

Frequenza

C2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈpætɹənaɪz/
Etimologia (Inglese)

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

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