Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The party for which professional services are rendered, as by an attorney.
- n. A customer or patron: clients of the hotel.
- n. A person using the services of a social services agency.
- n. One that depends on the protection of another.
- n. A client state.
- n. Computer Science A computer or program that can download files for manipulation, run applications, or request application-based services from a file server.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Roman antiquity, a person who was under the guardianship and protection of another of superior rank and influence, called his patron. The relation of client and patron between a plebeian and a patrician, although at first strictly voluntary, was hereditary, the former bearing the family name of the latter, and performing various services for him and his family both in peace and war, in return for advice and support in respect to private rights and interests. Foreigners in Rome, and even allied or subject states and cities, were often clients of Roman patricians selected by them as patrons. The number of a patrician's clients, as of a baron's vassals in the middle ages, was a gage of his greatness.
- n. In a general sense, one who lives under the patronage of, or whose interests are represented by, another.
- n. In the middle ages, any follower of a noble or knight; an inferior soldier, mounted or on foot; a vassal.
- n. One who puts a particular interest into the care and management of another; specifically, one who applies to a lawyer for advice and direction in a question of law, or commits his cause or his legal interests in general to a lawyer's management.
Wiktionary
- n. A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
- n. computing The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
- n. Person who receives help or advice from a professional person (ex. a lawyer, an accountant, a social worker, a psychiatrist, etc).
- n. law A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rom. Antiq.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
- n. A dependent; one under the protection of another.
- n. (Law) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who pays for goods or services
- n. a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer
- n. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
Etymologies
- From Latin cliēns. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cliēns, client-, dependent, follower; see klei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I never wanted to say the word client in my life, so I went into TV.”
“My main client is American Express, so I have to keep up on the consumer loan market in México, such as it is.”
“Using this method, some of the processing would take place on the central computer (the server) and the rest on the users '(the clients') computers-hence, the term client - server computing.”
“DA safety and security spokesman Dianne Kohler Barnard said: Neither Mr Hulley nor his client is a state official and Mr Hulley appears to have obtained these tapes specifically for the purpose of assisting his private legal client, Mr Zuma.”
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“In literature, the client is almost always has no reason.”
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“But now the repuiblicans can rightly point out that they oppose a bill supported by the evil goldman sachs, and thats a simple argument every simpleton can understand ... not unlike the argument that taking a position agianst your client is a conflict aof interest and should therefore be illegal; which makes perfect sense to anyone unfamilar with market making.”
“Couwenberg's attorney, who admits his client is a compulsive liar but says it is because of a curable mental condition called ` ` pseudologia fantastica, '' said Couwenberg has not decided whether to challenge the decision.”
“Spieler's lawyer said his client is also innocent.”
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“Stephen M. Kohn, Youssef's lawyer and director of the National Whistleblowers Center, said his client is the latest post-9/11 FBI whistleblower to have tried to pull back a curtain on what he called the agency's "culture of intransigence.”
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“Act as if the client is already on board, the money is already in the bank.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘client’.
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
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TECH - web application frameworks
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Buzzwords of our time
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webdev
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
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Tech Words
A list of words and terms for technology tools.
geek, meme, tweet, blog, vlog, social network, micro blog, tumblelog, tag, tag cloud, mashup, folksonomy and 23 more...
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SEO/SEM
copywriter, thematic, semantic, keyword, key phrase, density, backlink, link, sitemap, google, yahoo, search and 32 more...
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main word list
sightsee, mogul, deprecate, stylized, precious, parsimonious, parse, conceit, pretense, motif, onesy, tycoon and 32 more...
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Business Words & Terminology
commerce, trade, stock, product, market, bargain, deal, sales, barter, merchandise, patronage, customer and 13 more...
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