Patronize in a sentence as a verb

Is this the French meaning, where to "visit" someone is patronize a prostitute?

Saying women are trash will make you into a pariah, and no one will patronize your business.

I didn't start reading books until I found books that didn't condescend to and patronize children.

That means stop going to the movies, stop watching TV, cancel Netflix, don't patronize Redbox, don't even torrent the stuff you want to see. Just completely reject it.

I blame all the people on facebook and in real world who patronize such violent and undemocratic forces.

Typically men ignore women, except attractive women, who they ogle or patronize.

There is no social expectation that store keepers shouldn't talk about famous people that patronize their establishment.

This case was the last straw for me. Aweful movies and bad theatergoing experience aside, I refuse to patronize an industry that targets people across international borders simply for having links on a website.

Honestly, I don't know what the **** some of these companies are thinking but sure wish I had a blacklist of all of them that abuse contacts so I can never ever patronize them.

We need to do everything possible to make them easy to use and make them widespread.- Any person or company who stands up to these organizations should be lionized and we should try to patronize their businesses or employee them.

Patronize definitions

verb

assume sponsorship of

See also: sponsor patronise

verb

do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

See also: patronise shop frequent sponsor

verb

treat condescendingly

See also: patronise condescend

verb

be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"

See also: patronise patronage support