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cli⋅ent
[klahy-uh
nt]
–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. | Computers. a workstation on a network that gains access to central data files, programs, and peripheral devices through a server. |
| 6. | client state. |
| 7. | (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. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L client-, s. of cliēns person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful; perh. akin to clīnāre to bend (see incline )
1350–1400; ME < L client-, s. of cliēns person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful; perh. akin to clīnāre to bend (see incline )

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Client
Cli"ent\, n. [L. cliens, -emtis, for cluens, one who hears (in relation to his protector), a client, fr. L. cluere to be named or called; akin to Gr. ? to hear, Skr. [,c]ry, and E. loud: cf. F. client. See Loud.]1. (Rom. Antiq.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron. 2. A dependent; one under the protection of another. I do think they are your friends and clients, And fearful to disturb you. --B. Jonson. 3. (Law) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
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Language Translation for : client
Spanish:
cliente,
German:
der, *die Klient(in),
Japanese:
依頼人
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 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. Clientele is 1563, from Fr. clientèle, from L. clientela "relationship between dependent and patron."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| 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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client programming
A 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.
(1997-10-27)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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