What Is the Meaning of Following Term

What is the meaning of following term:
-Patronage

A) Legislation that restricts or bars some or all trade with certain countries.
B) A concept used to remind people of the widespread discrepancy between form and reality, such as false reporting.
C) Castro's group of 82 men who landed in Cuba in 1956.
D) A patriarchal system in a society that hides under the facade of modernity.
E) The administrative arm of government.
F) The desire for less government regulation of the market.
G) System that exempted non-Egyptians from Egyptian laws.
H) Islamic learned religious man.
I) Leadership where authority is closely related to family and kinship groups, especially to the men in those groups.
J) Failed invasion of Cuba by Miami exiles.
K) The illegal use of an official position or title for private gain.
L) The use of political office to hire supporters.
M) Limited land ownership and redistributed land among the peasants in Egypt.
N) Migration of technically competent individuals from poorer states to wealthier ones.
O) Original inhabitants of Cuba.