Sentence examples for patrons meaning from inspiring English sources

About 60 male clients are designated as patrons, meaning that they usually donate up to $10,000 a year (though it can be much more or less) directly to a charity.

In most provinces meat that has been hunted cannot be served to patrons, meaning game such as moose – a staple in many indigenous communities – cannot be served in restaurants.

Space in the Koch building also allows the company to hold its spring gala dinner, set for March 15, there, meaning patrons won't have to be bused to a restaurant.

But Malgara has now withdrawn from the post in the wake of his patron's fall, meaning Baratta may be reappointed.

Thankfully, aisles now divide the orchestra seating, meaning that patrons in the center no longer need to say "Excuse me" twenty times.

The city has also instituted a "pay on foot" system, meaning that patrons take a ticket from the lot or garage and pay at a machine at another location before re-entering the garage by foot, similar to a system at several New York airports.

The most important factor in how far you rise is your patron, or kaoshan in Chinese - meaning the mountain you can rely on.

More than 17percentt of libraries say they plan to add wireless capabilities within a year, meaning 71percentt would be allowing patrons to connect through their own laptops and in some cases through loaner machines.

About a third of Access-A-Ride patrons are only "conditionally eligible" for certain trips, meaning they do not qualify for full paratransit service.

It is also a relatively grown-up bar, meaning that not everyone here is 23 years old, and some of the patrons may even be (gasp) in their forties.

A few patrons had paid full price (thirteen dollars), but most were obvious holders of nine-dollar "senior" tickets, meaning we'd been in our thirties and forties during Ed Koch's three terms as Mayor, from 1978 through 1989.