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Dictionary: cli·ent   (klī'ənt) pronunciation

n.
  1. The party for which professional services are rendered, as by an attorney.
  2. A customer or patron: clients of the hotel.
  3. A person using the services of a social services agency.
  4. One that depends on the protection of another.
  5. A client state.
  6. Computer Science. A computer or program that can download files for manipulation, run applications, or request application-based services from a file server.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cliēns, client-, dependent, follower.]

clientage cli'ent·age (-ən-tĭj) n.
cliental cli·en'tal (klī-ĕn'tl, klī'ən-) adj.

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In general: person, company, or organization who uses the professional services of another.

Advertising: manufacturer, owner, or provider of a product or service who desires to advertise that product or service utilizing the help of a qualified specialist; also called account. The client is the customer for whom the advertising agency works.

In general: person, company, or organization that uses the professional services of another.

Advertising: manufacturer, owner, or provider of a product or service who desires to advertise that product or service utilizing the help of a qualified specialist; also called Account. The client is the customer for whom the advertising agency works.

The one who engages a Broker lawyer, accountant, Appraiser etc.
Example: Unless otherwise specified in the sales contract, the client of the broker, most often the seller, pays the brokerage commission.

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    One who buys goods or services: buyer, customer, patron, purchaser. See transactions.

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Definition: customer
Antonyms: manager, owner


client, at Rome, in early republican times, a free man who entrusted himself to a powerful patron to whom he rendered services and from whom he received protection; a freedman became automatically the client of his former owner. The Twelve Tables recognized the tie of clientship as legally binding. Under the empire the client became almost indistinguishable from the parasite, the subservient hanger-on, familiar from the satires of Juvenal and Martial. Certain conquered foreign states are sometimes spoken of as ‘clients’ of Rome, and some individuals and families in Rome built up a large following of foreign ‘clients’.

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A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal business; to assist, to counsel, and to defend the individual in legal proceedings; and to appear on his or her behalf in court.

This term includes a person who divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance, regardless of subsequent employment of the attorney. This attorney-client relationship is quite complex and extensive in its scope. One of the key aspects of this relationship is confidentiality of communications. A client has the right to require that his or her attorney keep secret any discussion between them during the course of their relationship that pertains to the matters for which the attorney is hired. This protection extends to a person who might have disclosed any confidential matters while seeking aid from an attorney, whether the attorney was employed or not. If, for example, someone is "shopping" for an attorney to handle a divorce, the person might reveal certain private information to several attorneys, all of whom are expected to keep such communications confidential.

See: attorney-client privilege.

A person whose animal(s) the veterinarian in question has had in his/her care during a finite period. The court usually operates on the basis that one or two years is sufficient to establish a continuing relationship.

  • c. files — the clinical and financial and other records that a veterinarian maintains as a permanent history of his/her association with each of his/her clients and their animals.
  • c. rights — a client is entitled to receive service from his/her regular veterinarian unless he/she has been advised that the client/doctor relationship has been terminated, that is assuming that the client is a bona fide one. A client is also entitled to be served or be advised that service is not available at the usual address but a comparable service is available at another practice and that arrangements have been made with that practice. As to quality of service, the client can expect to receive service of the quality that would be provided by any other veterinarian—the ‘reasonable man’ policy.
  • c. target — what the owner is trying to achieve by consulting the veterinarian.
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IN BRIEF: A customer.

pronunciation The lawyer has an important meeting with a client today.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - klient, kunde

idioms:

  • client state    klient

Nederlands (Dutch)
cliënt, klant

Français (French)
n. - (Comm) client (d'un magasin, d'une profession libérale), donneur d'ordres (à la Bourse), (Comput) client, client-réseau, serveur, plébéien sous la protection d'un patricien (dans la Rome antique), parasite (fam), pique-assiette

idioms:

  • client state    pays/état client

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kunde, Klient, Mandant, Auftraggeber

idioms:

  • client state    Vasallenstaat

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πελάτης ελεύθερου επαγγελματία (δικηγόρου, αρχιτέκτονα κ.λπ.), (Η/Υ) υπολογιστής-πελάτης, πρόγραμμα-πελάτης

idioms:

  • client state    εξαρτώμενο κράτος, δορυφόρος

Italiano (Italian)
cliente

idioms:

  • client state    (stato) satellite

Português (Portuguese)
n. - freguês (m), dependente (m)

idioms:

  • client state    estado (m) cliente

Русский (Russian)
клиент, посетитель

idioms:

  • client state    зависимое государство

Español (Spanish)
n. - cliente

idioms:

  • client state    satélite, país bajo la influencia de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - klient, kund

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
客户, 委托人, 顾客

idioms:

  • client state    附庸国

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 客戶, 委託人, 顧客

idioms:

  • client state    附庸國

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 소송 의뢰인, 고객, 피보호자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 依頼人, 患者, お客, 顧客

idioms:

  • client state    従属国

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زبون, عميل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קליינט, קונה, לקוח‬


 
 
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