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nonpatronage

nonpatronage adjective: not patronage, or not related to patronage.

Adjective

nonpatronage (not comparable)

  1. Not patronage, or not related to patronage.
    • And, it may be granted, the membership, as often in Europe, is recruited on a nonpatronage basis and on a large enough scale so as to go well beyond the limited ranks of potential candidates for elective office.1967, Political Parties in Western Democracies, →ISBN, page 123
    • "A lot of people in the black community don't have a feel for progressive versus nonprogressive government or patronage versus nonpatronage or fiscal conservatism versus free spending.1988 November 25, David Moberg, “One Year Without Washington”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

nonpatronage (uncountable)

  1. Failure to patronize a business.
    • A third practice outlawed is discrimination against shippers as punishment for nonpatronage.1983, An Assessment of maritime trade and technology., →ISBN, page 157

Origin of nonpatronage

From non- + patronage.

Questions about nonpatronage

What does nonpatronage mean?
Nonpatronage means not patronage, or not related to patronage.
What part of speech is nonpatronage?
Nonpatronage can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonpatronage in the dictionary

  1. nonpatrials
  2. nonpatriarchal
  3. nonpatrilineal
  4. nonpatrol
  5. nonpatron
  6. nonpatronage
  7. nonpatronizing
  8. nonpatrons
  9. nonpattern
  10. nonpatterned
  11. nonpatterns

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