client

Definition

A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

Etymology

From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cliēns, akin to clinare (“to lean”).

Example Sentences

• "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton."
• "The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included)."
• "A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers."

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