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patronage or patronal politics, which is the use of state resources to reward individuals for their electoral support. Some patronage systems are legal,...

Reciprocity ethics played a major role in the patron client system. Favors given from patron to client and client to patron do not cancel the other, instead the...

the Old South, dependent on African-American slaves, as well as the patron system once prevalent (and still somewhat present) in northern Mexico and South...

patrón system, currying political favor with the land bosses who exercised near-complete control of the local people and local elections. His patrón allies...

for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed. An ILS is usually made up of a relational database,...

Patron-Minette was the name given to a street gang in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables and the musical of the same name. The gang consisted of five...

sought for. Social forces originating in France would change the artisan-patron system that achieved this period of design, first in the German states, and...

Mitchell Systems with hairdresser Paul Mitchell and a loan for $700 and while living in a 20-year-old Rolls-Royce automobile. DeJoria co-founded the Patrón Spirits...

branches and library patrons. They use a library classification to organize their volumes and nowadays also use an Integrated library system - an enterprise...

Patron-driven acquisition (PDA), also referred to as demand-driven acquisition (DDA), is a model of library collection development in which a library only...

k.a. The Grange, officially named The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, is a social organization in the United States that encourages...

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and...

Patron is a survival city builder video game developed by Overseer Games and published on 10 August 2021. The game is a medieval city builder in the similar...

Patron Saint (foaled 1923) was a British racehorse who won the 1928 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Patron Saint was a bay gelding bred in the United Kingdom. He...

office; they included Sultan Muhammad Shah and Sultan Firuz Shah, Barani's patron in Delhi, who appointed a former slave captured from Telangana and converted...

system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a motion picture's suitability for certain audiences based on its content. The system...

receivers (jajman) persisted through the generations. As such, the system perpetuated a patron-client model rather than that of an employer-employee, with the...

BonPatron is a French online spelling and grammar checker, developed by Nadaclair Language Technologies. The site includes guides for grammar, vocabulary...

all but the most privileged patrons, so shelf browsing was not considered of importance. The use of the Dewey Decimal system increased during the early...

author; Otto Goldschmidt the pianist. Queen Elizabeth II was the hospital's patron. In 2010, the RHN received two 'Innovation Awards' from the UKABIF (United...