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
I am sorry to hear you say you will patronize such a market if you can find it.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
Miss Zaidee and Miss Helen Ward have decided that they will patronize the ocean hereafter for their daily bath, rather than the tanks in the cheese factory.
From Cricket at the Seashore by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
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
“I hope that people will patronize the tent generously,” Jessie said.
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Margaret Penrose
