client

CEFRB2

/ˈklaɪ.ənt/

noun

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01
noun
A person or organization that pays for professional services.
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noun
Extra detail
A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
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.

In context

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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The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).
1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv
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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers.
1989, Edward A. Kolodziej, Roger E. Kanet, Limits of Soviet Power, page 95

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