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What does patronise mean?

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Verb
  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of patronize
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Because, simply, the producers of media for young people can't patronise or condescend to their audience.
They had ceased to patronise the nautch, and in its stead preferred English music or military bands.
But she added the project now needed sustained support and for people to patronise the post office if the service was to be safe in the future.
It carries information that is relevant to their lives, it's fun and it's written in a way that does not patronise or talk down to them.
He does not patronise. He speaks directly and not in the warmed-over platitudes of his successor.
He has actually lived what careerist academics prefer to patronise and jargonise in structuralist abstraction.

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