clientage

[ klahy-uhn-tij ]
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noun
  1. a body of clients; clientele.

  2. Also cli·ent·hood [klahy-uhnt-hood] /ˈklaɪ əntˌhʊd/ . the relationship of a client to a patron; dependency.

Origin of clientage

1
First recorded in 1625–35; client + -age

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How to use clientage in a sentence

  • He has since been engaged in this line and has won for himself a prominent position, having a very large clientage.

  • Nor can it be said that this was an injury to that clientage, composed of consumers all through the adjacent countryside.

  • He had an office in the Equitable Building, and, during his periods of ill-luck, a large and paying clientage.

  • The Negro lawyer serves almost exclusively colored clientage, so that his existence is half forgotten by the white world.

    The Negro in the South | Booker T. Washington
  • In South America we also meet with at least one case of a tribe, or part of a tribe, which is in clientage to another tribe.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner