Client Meaning
/ˈklaɪ.ənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
nounThe role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
Sentence Examples
The client talked with the lawyer.
But I have an appointment with my client tomorrow.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The lawyer met her new ____ at the office yesterday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The expert lawyer is meeting with an important new ____ in his private office.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cliēns, akin to clinare (“to lean”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The lawyer met her new ____ at the office yesterday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The expert lawyer is meeting with an important new ____ in his private office.