Representative vs Patron - What's the difference?
representative | patron | Related terms |
Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation.
A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency.
One that is taken as typical of its class.
(US, politics) A member of the .
Company agent who visits potential purchasers, salesman.
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.
Representative is a related term of patron.
As an adjective representative
is .As a noun patron is
owner, boss.representative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Are you sure this paper is representative of your child's writing?
- If you took all the fools out of the legislature, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore. — Texas State Senator Carl Parker.
Noun
(en noun)- I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.
- She served four terms as representative of her local at the national union convention.
- All representatives face re-election every two years.
Synonyms
* rep * See alsopatron
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.