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Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.

Patronage may also refer to:

• Patronage (transportation) or ridership, a statistical quantity of passengers
• Patronage (novel), an 1814 novel by Maria Edgeworth
• Spoils system or patronage system
• Ius patronatus or right of patronage in Roman Catholic canon law
• Patronage, the practice of appointing a parish clergyman in the Church of England; see advowson
• Patronage, the practice of appointing a parish clergyman in the Church of Scotland; see Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711

• Patron god
• Patron saint

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