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has gloss	(noun) (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support patronage
lexicalization	eng: patronage
subclass of	(noun) control exerted (actively or passively) by group action social control
has subclass	(noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party nomenklatura

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has category	(noun) the study of government of states and other political units government, politics, political science