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client
[ klahy-uhnt ]
noun
- a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
- a person who is receiving the benefits, services, etc., of a social welfare agency, a government bureau, etc.
- a customer.
- anyone under the patronage of another; a dependent.
- Computers. a computer or an application on a computer that communicates with a remote server:
Exit the program before installing the patch to update the client.
- (in ancient Rome) a plebeian who lived under the patronage of a patrician.
adjective
- being a regular customer:
a client company.
- economically, and often militarily, dependent upon a more prosperous, more powerful nation.
client
/ ˈklaɪənt; klaɪˈɛntəl /
noun
- a person, company, etc, that seeks the advice of a professional man or woman
- a customer
- a person who is registered with or receiving services or financial aid from a welfare agency
- computing a program or work station that requests data or information from a server
- a person depending on another's patronage
client
/ klī′ənt /
- 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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Derived Forms
- cliental, adjective
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Other Words From
- cli·en·tal [klahy-, en, -tl, klahy, -, uh, n-tl], adjective
- non·client adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of client1
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Example Sentences
“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
She says she will have to fight in “other ways” to get her client freed.
“Our first few months we had maybe one client and then we went on The Tyra Banks Show,” says James.
Average age ranges from 45 to 65, with her youngest client at 18 and the oldest in her 80s.
The first thing Joplin needs to find out before he will agree to officiate a wedding is why his potential client is in prison.
David Arden, as he promised, had dictated to him in outline the awful case he had massed against his client.
At a circuit dinner, a counsellor observed to another, "I shall certainly hang your client."
If a client goes to a lawyer for advice the first thing the lawyer asks him to do is to make a clean breast of it.
He was especially noted for his success in criminal cases, almost always clearing his client.
It seems this client is willing to pay me my own price—within reasonable limits of course.
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