English-Finnish translations for patronize

• asioida
• holhota
  Sen tehtävä ei voi olla - niin kuin George Orwellin kirjassa "Vuonna 1984" - holhota kansalaista ja suojella heitä määräämällä, mitä hänen on tehtävä. 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.
• suhtautua alentuvasti

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