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 patron ['peitrәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 赞助人, 顾客, 保护人

[法] 保护人, 庇护人, 赞助人




    patron
    [ noun ]
    1. a regular customer

    2. <noun.person>
    3. the proprietor of an inn

    4. <noun.person>
    5. someone who supports or champions something

    6. <noun.person>


    Patron \Pa"tron\, v. t.
    To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. [Obs.] --Sir T.
    Browne.


    Patron \Pa"tron\, a.
    Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection;
    tutelary. --Dryden.

    {Patron saint} (R. C. Ch.), a saint regarded as the peculiar
    protector of a country, community, church, profession,
    etc., or of an individual.


    Patron \Pa"tron\, n. [F., fr. L. patronus, fr. pater a father.
    See {Paternal}, and cf. {Patroon}, {Padrone}, {Pattern}.]
    1. One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
    ``Patron of my life and liberty.'' --Shak. ``The patron of
    true holiness.'' --Spenser.

    2. (Rom. Antiq.)
    (a) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained
    some paternal rights over him.
    (b) A man of distinction under whose protection another
    person placed himself.
    (c) An advocate or pleader.

    Let him who works the client wrong
    Beware the patron's ire. --Macaulay.

    3. One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work;
    a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

    4. (Eccl. Law) One who has gift and disposition of a
    benefice. [Eng.]

    5. A guardian saint. -- called also {patron saint}.

    6. (Naut.) See {Padrone}, 2.

    {Patrons of Husbandry}, the grangers. See {Granger}, 2.

    1. Tanning had already been signed by the dealer Julien Levy, patron of the Surrealist exiles in New York, who recommended that Ernst see her.
    2. "This is a Dodger town and it will always be," said Alex Carson, a patron at Duke Snider's Restaurant and Bar, named for the Hall of Fame Brooklyn Dodger second baseman.
    3. There are a handful of businessmen and women in France whose personalities are so powerful that they are deemed by the media to have earned the epithet of le grand patron.
    4. Moreover, the Contras lost their patron when Reagan left office, the diplomat said.
    5. Unself-consciously, the littlest cast member with the big voice steps into the audience in one number to open her wide cat-eyes and throat to melt the heart of one lucky patron each night.
    6. Hammer, a longtime patron of cancer research, said DeVita was getting the award for pioneering work in developing combinations of chemotherapy drugs to safely treat and cure cancer, particularly Hodgkin's disease.
    7. This intelligent artistic cross-referencing adds to the excitement of the whole enterprise. Another strand concerns Britten as enlightened patron of younger composers such as Robert Saxton, Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews.
    8. Anyone who is educated or has shown capacity for leadership is targeted for elimination.' Two reports published by the human rights group are particularly embarrassing for France, Rwanda's long-time military patron.
    9. This northeastern Pennsylvania town of 5,000 people was settled by natives of Gubbio, Italy, which claims Ubaldo as its patron saint.
    10. Pepsico received the patron of the arts award and a film of its musical commercials was shown.
    11. Copyright Claim The justices agreed to decide who owns a copyright when a work of art is commissioned by a patron to be produced by an artist who isn't technically an employee of the patron.
    12. Copyright Claim The justices agreed to decide who owns a copyright when a work of art is commissioned by a patron to be produced by an artist who isn't technically an employee of the patron.
    13. Imbibing beer made beyond Germany's borders is out of the question for Ulrich Schulenberger, an elderly patron who has come from Munich on a recent sunny day to the monastery's 4,000-seat beer hall.
    14. Nor can patron fees be increased indiscriminately without driving away customers.
    15. Scocozza said the proposed regulations also would: _Allow airlines to refuse service only upon a showing that a patron couldn't be carried safely.
    16. As the Princess of Wales, she is patron of the opera company.
    17. Mitzi Newhouse, widow of newspaper and magazine publisher S.I. Newhouse and a longtime patron of the arts, died at home Thursday after a brief illness.
    18. At least the opening-night performance of Verdi's "Otello" offered the happy distraction of major jewels being carted into an auditorium newly beautified with the name of Met patron Sybil Harrington, the Texas zillionairess.
    19. The next patron I encountered was bearded Kim Goudreau, of Rockton, Ill., a community-college sociology teacher.
    20. The club was the hangout of Gotti's Mafia patron, the late Aniello Dellacroce, and is one of Gotti's haunts.
    21. St. Patrick is Ireland's patron saint.
    22. They are drumming up sympathy, much as followers of Ninoy Aquino did a decade ago, for their "persecuted" patron.
    23. The festival is held annually in July to honor San Fermin, Pamplona's patron saint.
    24. Yet even as Dukakis readied his charge, the GOP vice presidential candidate was scoffing at the man from Massachusetts. "Michael Dukakis is no Harry Truman," said Dan Quayle, referring to the political patron saint of the underdog.
    25. St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, spends the rest of the year dealing with a variety of people and pleas from the local community.
    26. The year was 1793 and the secretary of state was Thomas Jefferson, the patron saint of the Democratic Party.
    27. The state news agency MTI reported that "chief patron" of the concert was Hungarian top ideologist Janos Berecz, a Politburo member.
    28. Mrs. Bush helped present the silver medals, nestled in walnut boxes, to each artist and patron.
    29. Rather, a bank executive who asked not to be identified linked the departure of Mr. Davis, who is noted for his credit analysis skills, to a political setback suffered by Vice Chairman Lawrence Small, his patron within Citicorp.
    30. And finally, through depositions, from Rose herself, a daughter of Italian immigrants who said she sought to ward off cancer with prayers to St. Jude, the patron saint of people in desperate trouble.
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