English-Dutch translations for patronize

• betuttelen
  De staat heeft niet de taak de burger - zoals in "1984" van George Orwell - te betuttelen en hem voor te schrijven wat hij moet doen. But the state's role cannot be - as in George Orwell's book "1984' - to patronize its citizens and to protect them by laying down what they can and cannot do.
• denigreren

Definition of patronize

• To act#Verb|act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support#Verb|support
• To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer
• To assume a tone#Noun|tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat#Verb|treat condescendingly
• To blame#Verb|blame, to reproach#Verb|reproach

Related words

• patrocination