patronize
verb (used with object)
to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
will patronize
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future tenseof patronize.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The town is then split into those who will patronize the post office and those who refuse to use the mail at all, rather than cross the family.
From Time Magazine Archive
They will patronize the arts and literature, while at the same time mellowing them by eliminating that too urgent insistence upon contemporary fact which makes so much of what is done to-day harsh and displeasing.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
“People will patronize them because she does, for a time, but they make a great mistake in relying upon her; this is just one of her fads.”
From Those Dale Girls by Frank Weston Carruth
But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain--which taste cannot tolerate--which ridicule will seize.
From Persuasion by Jane Austen
We might boycott all the fellows at dances," suggested Miss Wilbur, "unless they will patronize the Doctor.
From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by John Kendrick Bangs
