source of patronage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsourceandpatronage
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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patronage
noun[U]
uk/ˈpæt.rə.nɪdʒ/us/ˈpæt.rə.nɪdʒ/
the support given to an organization ...
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(Definition ofsourceandpatronagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This raises suspicions that state officials were using their political discretion to hold on to an importantsourceofpatronage.
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His vast personal fortune provided a seemingly inexhaustiblesourceofpatronagewhich created a loyal and\\or compromised elite, while facilitating the division or elimination of opposition.
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These factors include the relative ease of transferring a service and the extent to which a service is deemed by state officials to be an importantsourceofpatronage.
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There is a further importantsourceofpatronageof the arts, and that is the private patron.
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There is one othersourceofpatronage, and that is the private patron.
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They are asourceofpatronage.
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Instead, partisan political considerations, such as holding on to important sources of patronage, also entered into the calculus.
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As a result, there were competing locations of power and alternative sources of patronage to which workers could turn and which narrowed the jobber's freedom of manoeuvre.
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It seems unlikely that political party leaders would remain complacent in the face of changes that would limit or completely eliminate their control over key sources of patronage.
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The new sources of patronage to which we can look in the modern world are really three.
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Professional police and fire-fighting forces fell under the control of the local politicians and this provided sources of patronage for the local machine.
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Besides local residents along the route and airport workers, air passengers were one of the biggest sources of patronage for the service.
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