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Synonyms for patronage
The synonym for patronage recorded in this bank is trade, in the sense "the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for patronage
- tradenoun, in the sense "the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day patronage is audited in a second meaning.
the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
Even before noon there was a considerable patronage.
The true synonym
trade
Same sentence, swapped: Even before noon there was a considerable trade.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- disdain
- voucher
- cure
Where patronage turns up in the game
patronage is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where patronage is the trap
- slurnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is aspersion, in the sense "a disparaging remark", so patronage is there to be ruled out.
Play patronage
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so patronage reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
patronage is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.