Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The clients of a professional person or practice considered as a group.
- n. A body of customers or patrons: a restaurant's clientele.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition or relation of a client.
- n. Clients collectively.
- n. Interests of a client; patronage.
Wiktionary
- n. The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete, obsolete The condition or position of a client; clientship.
- n. The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
- n. The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively
WordNet 3.0
- n. customers collectively
Etymologies
- From French clientèle, ultimately from Latin cliēns (English client). (Wiktionary)
- French clientèle, from Latin clientēla, clientship, from cliēns, client; see client. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Looks like her clientele is already A-list: Lopez, Stefani and Ellen Pompeo attended her launch party at Barneys last month. $295-$1,100 at Intermixonline. com”
Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup
“Like I said, the clientele is almost completely complementary.”
“This town historically specializing in trailer parkall-you-can-eat buffet fricasees for its foreign clientele is coming of age.”
“Now you might think her main clientele would be white Goths perhaps?”
“Servers are dishing out food to a mostly Spanish-speaking clientele from the heating trays along the wall on the other side of the counter.”
“And if there was, you will note the clientele is not typical.”
“Back in the day, the Empress was known for its eccentric long-term clientele, who would come out to Victoria during the winter for the temperate climate (Victoria lies in the rain shadow of the Olympic Peninsula and thus has mostly sunny weather).”
“The island is also easily accessible via ferry from the Mainland which is why is has long been a popular choice of discerning clientele from the Spanish Mainland.”
“Mr. Sire says tennis appeals to an elite clientele, which is important when building up corporate relations, but also has the mass appeal vital for creating awareness among retail customers because it is played around the world.”
The Wall Street Journal: BNP Paribas Courts Image With Tennis
“His clientele was a mix of both Middle Easterners and also some Europeans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clientele’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
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OTR
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Whoever who thinks it took him a while to get familier with the analogy of that word can add it here.....feel free to ...hammock, condominium, clientele, marauding, voyeur, the heebie-jeebies, stalinism, animadvert, squelch
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for clientele.
Prolagus It's something to speak of the way you are feeling
To crowds there assembled
Do you ever feel you have gone too far?
Everyone suffers in silence a burden
The man who drives minicabs down in Old Compton
The Asian man
With his love-hate affair
With his racist clientele.
(The boy with the Arab strap, by Belle and Sebastian) Nov 12, 2008