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nonpatronage

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Nonpatronage (adj) means not connected with patronage.

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Not connected with patronage.

"And, it may be granted, the membership, as often in Europe, is recruited on a nonpatronage basis and on a large enough scale so as to go well beyond the limited ranks of potential candidates for elective office." — Political Parties in Western Democracies (1967)

""A lot of people in the black community don't have a feel for progressive versus nonprogressive government or patronage versus nonpatronage or fiscal conservatism versus free spending." — David Moberg, One Year Without Washington (1988)

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