Help and Patronize

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Help

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

Usage example: offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment

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Patronize is a synonym for help in aid topic. In some cases you can use "Patronize" instead a verb "Help".

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Patronize

Patronize verb - To promote the interests or cause of.

Usage example: a company that loyally patronizes the arts

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Help is a synonym for patronize in support topic. You can use "Help" instead a verb "Patronize", if it concerns topics such as sponsor, support a cause.

Nearby Words: patronise, patron, patronage, patronizing, patronising

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humans	help humans	patronize humans
kids	help kids	patronize kids

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They are extremely skeptical when Greg offers to help and are quick to patronize and give up on him, despite the fact that, however advanced they think they are, Greg is a sound and video engineer and knows far more about the subject than any of them.

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