Patronage vs Charge - What's the difference?

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Patronage is a related term of charge.

As a noun patronage

is patronage.

As a proper noun charge is

a commune in the indre-et-loire department in france.

patronage

English

(wikipedia patronage)

Noun

The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.

His vigorous patronage of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives.

Customers collectively; clientele; business.

The restaurant had an upper class patronage .

A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.

(politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.

Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.

(Addison)

The right of nomination to political office.

(UK, legal) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.

(Blackstone)

Verb

(patronag)

To support by being a patron of.

* 2003 , Hubert Michael Seiwert, Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History , BRILL, ISBN 9789004131460, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xg-gcQq1TGQC&pg=PA62&dq=patronaged page 62]:

Mingdi continued the policy of his father who had patronaged Confucian learning.

* 2004 , C.K. Gandhirajan, Organized Crime , APH Publishing Corporation, ISBN 978-81-7648-481-7, [http://books.google.com/books?id=ohyhsmWmelAC&pg=PA147&dq=patronaged page 147]:

Table 5.4 reveals the role of criminal gangs’ patron under each crime category. From this, we can understand that 74 percent of the mercenaries are patronaged and supported by the politicians either of the ruling or opposition party.

* 2007 , Stefaan Fiers and Ineke Secker, “A Career through the Party”, chapter 6 of Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best (editors), Democratic Representation in Europe , Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-923420-2, [http://books.google.com/books?id=EtetpwF-xHMC&pg=PA138&dq=patronaged page 138]:

To summarize: a person with a party political background is thus defined as ‘a person that has served in (a) and/or (b) a non-elective position inside the party administration of patronaged position in another organisation, i.e. the political functionary ’.

To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.

* in The Primary Teacher (magazine), Volume III, Number ??, New-England Publishing Company, [http://books.google.com/books?id=sxgVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA33&dq=patronaged page 63]:

This house is largely patronaged by the professors and students of many of the Educational Institutions of New England and the Middle States; and all perons visiting New York, either for business or pleasure, will find this an excellent place at which to stop.

* 1902 May, in Oregon Poultry Journal , [http://books.google.com/books?id=flRMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27&dq=patronage page 27]:

Mr. F. A. Welch, of the Oak View Poultry Farm, Salem, starts an add with us this issue. Our readers will be treated well, if they patronage Mr. Welch.

* 2002 , Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development , SUNY Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-5377-3, [http://books.google.com/books?id=CRG0QOEw9wAC&pg=PA28&dq=patronaged page 28]:

Most public establishments catered to Blacks, and Whites actively patronaged some black-owned businesses (Martin 1982, 6, 9–11; Slingsby 1980, 31–32).

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charge

English

(wikipedia charge)

Noun

(en noun)

The scope of someone's responsibility.

The child was in the nanny's charge .

* 1848 April 24, , opinion, United States ''v.'' Hutchison'', as reported in ''The Pennsylvania law Journal'', June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,''The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Pz-TAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=key]:

He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.

Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

The child was a charge of the nanny.

A load or burden; cargo.

The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.

The amount of money levied for a service.

There will be a charge of five dollars.

An instruction.

I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.

(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

Pickett did not die leading his famous charge .

An accusation.

* 2005 , .

we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge ;

That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.

An electric charge.

(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.

A forceful forward movement.

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A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

to bring a weapon to the charge

A sort of plaster or ointment.

Weight; import; value.

* Shakespeare

many suchlike as's of great charge

A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds. Also charre.

Derived terms

* access charge * banzai charge * carrying charge * chargeback * chargecard * charge conjugation * charge density * charge hand * charge nurse * charge of quarters * charge-off * charge plate * charge sheet * color charge/colour charge * cover charge * deferred charge * depth charge * electric charge * finance charge * fixed charge * floating charge * free of charge * get a charge out of * in charge * late charge * negative charge * nonrecurring charge * partial charge * positive charge * press charges * redemption charge * reverse-charge * reverse the charge * sales charge * service charge * shaped charge * space charge * specific charge * take charge * trickle charge * user charge

Verb

(charg)

To place a burden upon; to assign a duty or responsibility to.

* John Locke

the charging of children's memories with rules

* Bible, Joshua xxii. 5

Moses charged you to love the Lord your God.

* Shakespeare

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.

# To formally accuse of a crime.

I'm charging you with grand theft auto.

# (ambitransitive) To require payment (for goods, services, etc.) of.

to charge high for goods

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, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

Will I get charged for this service?

# To assign (a debit) to an account.

Let's charge this to marketing.

# To pay on account, (as) by using a credit card.

Can I charge my Amazon purchase to Paypal?

Can I charge this purchase?

# To impute or ascribe.

#* Dryden

No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.

# To call to account; to challenge.

#* Shakespeare

to charge me to an answer

# To ornament with or cause to bear.

to charge an architectural member with a moulding

# (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.

He charges three roses.

# (heraldry) To add to or represent on.

He charges his shield with three roses or.

To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.

Charge your weapons; we're moving up.

* Shakespeare

their battering cannon charged to the mouths

# To cause to take on an electric charge.

Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.

# To add energy to (a battery).

He charged the battery overnight.

# To add energy to a battery within.

Don't forget to charge the drill.

# (intransitive, of a, battery) To gain energy.

The battery is still charging : I can't use it yet.

# (intransitive, of a, device containing a battery) To have a battery within gain energy.

His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.

To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

# (military, transitive, and, intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.

The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.

# (basketball) To commit a charging foul.

# (cricket, of a, batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.

To squat on the belly and be still; a command given by a hunter to a dog.

Derived terms

* charge down * charger * charge up * discharge * double-charge * overcharge * recharge * undercharge

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