Jefe vs Patron - What's the difference?
jefe | patron |
(US, informal) An officer with political influence; a head or chief in government, such as a sheriff.
* 1887 , Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Central America , page 153, History Company
* 1898 , Southern Pacific Company Passenger Department, Sunset , Sunset Magazines Inc. (1912), pages 313-314
* 1900 , United States War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department , U.S. Government Printing Office
(US) A boss in a business, company or other organization.
* 1982 January, George Durham, Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers , page 120, University of Texas Press
* 1998 June, Thomas Miller Klubock, Contested communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1948 , page 147, Duke University Press
* 2004 December, Jeffrey Harris Cohen, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico , University of Texas Press
* 2005 May, Monica Rico, EMails that Go Nowhere , Google Mail.
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.
As nouns the difference between jefe and patron
is that jefe is an officer with political influence; a head or chief in government, such as a sheriff while patron is one who protects or supports; a defender.As a verb patron is
to be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.jefe
English
Noun
(en noun)- Antonio Rivera Cabezas was chosen vice-jefe in March 1830.
- before he stepped forward uttering the stereotyped greeting, the Texan had put him down as the jefe or head man....
- Snatching up the rifle he lit out after the jefe , who had left two jumps ahead of the smoke.
- Hilario Saño, a suspect, resident here but much doubted by the jefe local, was put to the test
- “They ain’t going to deliver the cattle across.... They’ve taken too much of a beating as it is. They’ve lost their big jefe and lots of men.”
- When they were slacking off in the mine, for example, and a jefe arrived unexpectedly, they shouted loro'' (parrot) or ''fuego (fire) as warning signals.
- A jefe' in this sense is a mentor, a person who is often a compadre of the migrant.''...'' In any case, a ' jefe is not a loan shark
- A jefe in this sense refers to a true boss, the leader of the household, also known as Jose Rico.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "jefe") ----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.