Patron vs Backer - What's the difference?
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One who protects or supports; a defender.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
An advocate or pleader.
* Macaulay
(UK, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(nautical) A padrone.
(phonetics) (back)
:: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
English agent nouns
As nouns the difference between patron and backer
is that patron is one who protects or supports; a defender while backer is one who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.As a verb patron
is to be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.As an adjective backer is
comparative of back.patron
English
Noun
(en noun)- patron of my life and liberty
- the patron of true holiness
- This car park is for patrons only.
- Let him who works the client wrong / Beware the patron' s ire.
Derived terms
* patronage * patroness * patronize, patronise *patron saintSee also
* sponsorAnagrams
* ----backer
English
Adjective
(head)- Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174: