patronage

Source: Munday(2001)//Introducing Translation Studies//.London and New York.Routledge

Original sentence: "Lefevere describes the literary system in which translation functions as being controlled by three main factors, which are:(1) professionals within the literary system,(2)patronage outside the literary system and (3)the dominant poetics."

Definition: noun[U] the support, especially finacial, that is given to a person or an organization by a patron

(//Oxford Adcanced Learner's English Dictionary//, Sixthe Edition)