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noun
1.
a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
2.
a person who is receiving the benefits, services, etc., of a social welfare agency, a government bureau, etc.
3.
a customer.
4.
anyone under the patronage of another; a dependent.
5.
EXPANDComputers. a workstation on a network that gains access to central data files, programs, and peripheral devices through a server.
7.
COLLAPSE(in ancient Rome) a plebeian who lived under the patronage of a patrician.
adjective
8.
being a regular customer: a client company.
9.
economically, and often militarily, dependent upon a more prosperous, more powerful nation.
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Client
is always a great word to know.
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| the machine-language output of a compiler or assembler that is ready for execution |
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin client-, stem of cliēns person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful; perhaps akin to clīnāre to bend (see incline)
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin client-, stem of cliēns person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful; perhaps akin to clīnāre to bend (see incline)
Related forms
non·cli·ent, adjective
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Example Sentences
- She provides tactical direction, cultivates client relationships, business alliances and guides the customer experience.
- Pol receives an emergency call from a client who finds her horse down and fears he may not make it.
- Experience managing client relationships and client expectations.
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Word Origin & History
client
1393, from Anglo-Fr. clyent, from L. cliens (acc. clientem) "follower, retainer," perhaps a var. of prp. of cluere "listen, follow, obey" (see listen); or from clinare "to incline, bend," from suffixed form of PIE base *klei- "to lean" (see
EXPAND lean (v.)). The ground sense is of one who leans on another for protection. In ancient Rome, a plebian under protection of a patrician (in this relationship called patronus, see patron), originally in Eng. "a lawyer's customer," by c.1600 extended to any customer.
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Science Dictionary
client  (klī'ənt) Pronunciation Key
A program that runs on a personal computer or workstation connected to a computer network and requests information from a file server. |
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Computing Dictionary
client definition
programmingA computer system or process that requests a service of another computer system or process (a "server") using some kind of protocol and accepts the server's responses. A client is part of a client-server software architecture.
For example, a workstation requesting the contents of a file from a file server is a client of the file server.
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