patronage (n.)
- abetment
- administration
- advocacy
- aegis
- aid
- auspices
- backing
- benefaction
- bias
- business
- care
- championship
- character
- charge
- charity
- clientage
- clientele
- condescension
- contempt
- contumely
- countenance
- credential
- cure
- custodianship
- custody
- custom
- disdain
- encouragement
- favor
- favoritism
- financing
- fosterage
- goodwill
- governance
- government
- guardianship
- guidance
- hands
- help
- humiliation
- interest
- jurisdiction
- keeping
- management
- market
- melon
- ministry
- nepotism
- oversight
- partiality
- pastorate
- pastorship
- plum
- pork
- pork-barreling
- preference
- promotion
- protection
- protectorship
- public
- recommendation
- reference
- repute
- scorn
- sponsorship
- stewardship
- subsidy
- superiority
- support
- sympathy
- testimonial
- trade
- trading
- traffic
- tutelage
- voucher
- ward
- wardenship
- wardship
- wing
