nonpatronage
English
Etymology
Adjective
nonpatronage (not comparable)
- Not patronage, or not related to patronage.
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- And, it may be granted, the membership, as often in Europe, is recruited on a nonpatronage basis and on a large enough scale so as to go well beyond the limited ranks of potential candidates for elective office.
- 1988 November 25, David Moberg, “One Year Without Washington”, in Chicago Reader:
- "A lot of people in the black community don't have a feel for progressive versus nonprogressive government or patronage versus nonpatronage or fiscal conservatism versus free spending.
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Noun
nonpatronage (uncountable)
- Failure to patronize a business.
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- A third practice outlawed is discrimination against shippers as punishment for nonpatronage.
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