Associate and Patron

Associate

Associate noun - A person frequently seen in the company of another.

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Patron and associate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Patron" instead a noun "Associate".

Patron noun - A person who buys a product or uses a service from a business.

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Associate and patron are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Associate" instead a noun "Patron".

known	known associate	known patron
female	female associate	female patron
rich	rich associate	rich patron
regular	regular associate	regular patron
Other adjectives: potential, important, new, frequent, late, former, mysterious, random, unknown, occasional, different.

In Wolf Hall, a number of people are willing to be Thomas Cromwell's associate or patron, but he keeps his past and motives largely to himself, and attempting to categorize him usually ends up concluding only that he is a "person" of some kind.

Source: Enigmatic Minion
Garrison Grayson, an old associate of Millie's and archaeologist before he became a patron of the sciences.

Source: Roleplay / The Shadow Of Greed

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