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pa·dro·ne

(pə-drō′nē, -nā)
n. pl. pa·dro·nes (-nēz, -nāz) or pa·dro·ni (-nē)
1. An owner or manager, especially of an inn; a proprietor.
2. A person who exploitatively employs or finds work for immigrants, especially Italian immigrants.

[Italian, from Latin patrōnus, patron; see patron.]

pa·dro′nism n.
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padrone

(pəˈdrəʊnɪ)
n, pl -nes or -ni (-niː)
1. the owner or proprietor of an inn, esp in Italy
2. (Commerce) US an employer who completely controls his workers, esp a man who exploits Italian immigrants in the US
[C17: from Italian; see patron1]
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pa•dro•ne

(pəˈdroʊ ni, -neɪ)

n., pl. -nes, -ni (-nē).
1. a master; boss.
2. an employer, esp. of immigrant laborers.
3. an innkeeper.
[1660–70; < Italian; see patron]
pa•dro′nism (-nɪz əm) n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.padrone - an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy
innkeeper, boniface, host - the owner or manager of an inn
2.padrone - an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S.
employer - a person or firm that employs workers
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Nel Settecento la figura tipica dipendeva da un padrone nobile; dall'eversione in poi dipendeva invece da molteplici rapporti con plurimi padroni che vivevano more nobilium.
Il contadino divenne cliente: per attingere risorse sufficienti a soddisfare i suoi bisogni dovette trovarsi uno o piu padroni con cui giocare la fiducia reciproca.
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COMMITTENTE: "Ma il partito non hai mai detto che i piccoli padroni bisogna combatterli, anzi ci han sempre spiegato che il nostro nemico e solo il grande capitale e che il piccolo e medio capitale dobbiamo farcelo alleato."
Infatti, la spartizione della scena fra servi e padroni e le caratteristiche decisamente anticonformiste di questi protagonisti mette di nuovo in relazione le due opere.
Reflecting these interests, the book's chapters focus on each of the would-be intermediaries that contended for the role of provider: padroni, Progressive reformers, unions, and, most important for this study, the state itself.
Because of the necessity to supplement meagre family incomes, poor parents indentured their children - mainly but not exclusively males - to labour agents or masters (padroni) for from one to three years.
Dietrologia, moreover, suggests looking behind the institutional screen to find the wizard at the controls, the notaries, social mediators, and padroni. In writing about communities, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italians often referred to consuetudine (practice) in a sense that combines Pierre Bourdieu's notion of practice (1977) wi th an articulated local tradition of "how things are done." The documents often paired the word consuetudine with statuti.
Once a respectable adult occupation, Italy's migrant music trade developed by mid-century a notorious reputation as a child slave trade run by cruel padroni who abused their recruits.
The second is the absence of padroni (labor agents) drawing mass migrations to the city.