patronise

Other forms of patronise

past tense

patronised·

present participle

patronising·

third person

patronises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about patronise

What does patronise mean?

patronise means "do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in patronise?

patronise has 3 syllables and divides as pa-tro-nise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for patronise?

Close synonyms include patronize, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of patronise?

The recorded antonyms are boycott.

Is patronise a common word?

patronise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.