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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
client
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business customer/client
▪ We’re providing our business customers with reliable, proven Internet technology.
a potential customer/buyer/client
▪ Advertisers want to reach as many potential customers as possible.
a prospective customer/client
▪ We are conducting market research among existing and prospective customers.
client state
corporate clients/customers (=clients that are companies)
▪ It's a big investment bank that serves mainly corporate clients.
entertaining clients
▪ Do you get an allowance for entertaining clients?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
▪ They can not at the same time absorb and spread the credit risks of their corporate clients as well.
▪ By the end of 1994, MCSNet had over 2200 individual customers and nearly 50 corporate and public-sector clients.
▪ It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others.
▪ Those items in italics are particular issues which you should address in deciding whether a client is a corporate finance client.
▪ Porter Monday and begin advising corporate clients on how to lobby the government.
▪ Section 0403 below sets out the procedures to be followed in determining if a client is a corporate finance client.
▪ He represented major corporate clients, from BankAmerica Corp. to Crowley Maritime.
new
▪ The scheme offers special membership benefits to participating firms, including referrals of new clients from over 3,000 business advice centres nationwide.
▪ Support, guidance, training, how to get new clients, and how to get into the cycles-really specific suggestions.
▪ It makes money from spreads on its hedging operations which fix the interest rate, and on attracting new clients.
▪ Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.
▪ Some new clients face a three-month waiting list.
▪ By 1989, however, forces at work in the world had produced new dilemmas for clients.
▪ And later this year, Hewlett-Packard will ship a new client intended to be a universal Windows client.
▪ As new clients meet me, I tell them the story.
potential
▪ Therefore, to some degree any public relations proposal for any potential client is out of date as soon as it is written.
▪ Naturally, Sheila thought that meant a potential client had called.
▪ Fairs are useful for meeting potential new clients and as a way to introduce ourselves.
▪ Newsletters are often issued on free trial to potential clients.
▪ Each one recognises sectional interests within the profession but has little or no regard to the public at large or the potential client.
▪ The facility is currently being actively promoted both within the Bar and locally with potential professional clients.
▪ Solicitors also participate in social activities likely to get them and their firms known to potential clients.
▪ Most potential clients visit them at Potton and attend one of the free seminars, held three times a week.
private
▪ It will specialise in corporate, insurance litigation and private client work.
▪ Both companies are private client stockbrokers, which specialize in managing money for wealthy investors, trusts and charities.
▪ The money saved there will be transferred to develop the private client business and research which is corporate based.
▪ Nor are more than a few probably aware that frequent political analyst Jody Powell has worked for partisan and private clients.
▪ It's exciting and stimulating; with a private client I love it when she trusts me.
▪ Some decline to accept private clients and act only for employers.
▪ Michael Mathews is still working for Citibank in Geneva, dealing with private clients.
▪ They would show that the private client is still loved in today's institutional world.
■ NOUN
group
▪ The results have to be published and should not be only of interest to the client group who put forward the proposal.
▪ The General Information form on p. 146 is completed for each client group being audited.
▪ Through the scheme the client group will be put in touch with a suitable academic researcher if they have not themselves nominated one.
▪ A third way of considering expenditure distribution is via the allocation given to specific patient or client groups.
▪ The research on the project is required to be carried out in close co-operation with the client group.
▪ It was dispersed in terms of client groups.
▪ There are obviously more overheads when the client group is geographically dispersed rather than grouped together in a home.
▪ The advocacy of spending is concentrated in vocal and influential communities and client groups that can affect the electoral chances of politicians.
■ VERB
advise
▪ The surveyor will therefore require a knowledge of the contracts available in order to advise his client.
▪ Porter Monday and begin advising corporate clients on how to lobby the government.
▪ There came a point when we had to advise our client that she didn't proceed further.
▪ Goldberg said he had advised his client to simply plead not guilty during the court session and say nothing else.
▪ Sales consultants are now able to advise clients using photographs, on a range of sizes, colours and planters.
▪ Under the circumstances, I am advising my client to make no response.
▪ The person using an expert system to advise a client will be potentially liable under the laws of contract and negligence.
▪ It may be helpful to advise the client on how to announce the sale to their staff.
help
▪ Self-monitoring also helps the client to see their difficulty in a different way.
▪ Suddenly I was spending more time managing my payroll than I was helping my clients.
▪ This time would vary with the season, thus using imagination and flexibility to help such a client retain some autonomy.
▪ The purpose of this is to help clients deal appropriately with relapses, which do occur.
▪ Here consultancies set out to help a client who is in an emergency situation.
▪ Civil and commercial litigation allows me to help a client stand up for his rights.
▪ Unlike therapists who deal with psychological problems, coaches help their clients establish business goals and stay on track.
meet
▪ He says the Bookies have refused even to meet his client.
▪ The therapist and client should examine the book to select a meeting for the client to attend.
▪ It is a wise precaution to meet new clients, rather than to deal with them over the telephone or by correspondence.
▪ I never met a client in a flophouse before, so I said I would.
▪ It is time for a meeting with a client.
▪ He suggested that Weeks plan an agenda before meeting with clients during the tax season.
offer
▪ From a business perspective it is a manoeuvre which meets a much-recognised need for the agency to offer clients international service.
▪ He had started a company that offered clients marketing advice.
▪ The group also offers clients the opportunity to share experiences and receive feedback from peers.
▪ Weeks could offer regular assistance to clients on how to save money or cut expenses.
▪ As the cost of technology has fallen so the factors have been able to offer clients links into their databases.
▪ Despite their prestige, they seem to have less to offer the private client than licensed dealers.
provide
▪ This is essential to facilitate the smooth running of a sale and to provide the client with regular written status reports.
▪ Daley, as a politician with a growing reputation, provided the clients with a practical reason to bring him their business.
▪ That sets up a situation of two naming services and not providing NIS+ clients for SunOS.
▪ Nutrition Intervention Nutrition counseling, nutrition education, and follow-up services are elements of care provided to patients / clients.
▪ Is it possible this would affect the home care manager's decision about the services to provide to each client?
▪ Nicholas Breads, which are blessed and which continue to provide for his clients many favors and graces.
▪ The role of a solicitor is to provide clients with skilled legal advice and representation on all legal matters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Case workers deal with as many as a dozen clients a day.
▪ Elkins assured the judge that neither of his clients had a criminal record.
▪ Kilmer's attorney, Ralph Loeb, said that his client should not have to pay the government anything.
▪ Mr Langston normally meets with clients in the afternoon.
▪ The firm is one of our oldest clients - we don't want to lose them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both companies are private client stockbrokers, which specialize in managing money for wealthy investors, trusts and charities.
▪ International sponsors the team jointly with one of its key clients, offshore fabrication group McDermott International.
▪ It was not etiquette to enquire where clients went, so Theodora had asked no questions.
▪ On the phone, though, her client sounded timid, afraid, lost.
▪ One of its clients, Houston Power and Light, uses the object-oriented system to help schedule maintenance of its power stations.
▪ The food will then be heated up by the elderly and disabled clients themselves.
▪ Under the non-exclusive agreement, Ingenia will sell O2 to its clients in the defence, agro-chemical and automotive industries.
▪ Whether or not we agree with the principles or validity of church laws and rules, many of our clients will accept them.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Client

Client \Cli"ent\, n. [L. cliens, -emtis, for cluens, one who hears (in relation to his protector), a client, fr. L. cluere to be named or called; akin to Gr. ? to hear, Skr. [,c]ry, and E. loud: cf. F. client. See Loud.]

  1. (Rom. Antiq.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

  2. A dependent; one under the protection of another.

    I do think they are your friends and clients, And fearful to disturb you.
    --B. Jonson.

  3. (Law) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
client

late 14c., from Anglo-French clyent (c.1300), from Latin clientem (nominative cliens) "follower, retainer," perhaps a variant of present participle of cluere "listen, follow, obey" (see listen); or, more likely, from clinare "to incline, bend," from suffixed form of PIE root *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)).\n

\nThe ground sense apparently is of one who leans on another for protection. In ancient Rome, a plebian under protection of a patrician (called patronus in this relationship; see patron); in English originally "a lawyer's customer," by c.1600 extended to any customer.

Wiktionary
client

n. 1 A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services. 2 (context computing English) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server. 3 Person who receives help or advice from a professional person (ex. a lawyer, an accountant, a social worker, a psychiatrist, etc).

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WordNet
client

  1. n. a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer

  2. someone who pays for goods or services [syn: customer]

  3. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network [syn: node, guest]

Wikipedia
Client

Client(s) or The Client may refer to:

  • Client (computing), software that accesses a remote service on another computer
  • Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuable considerations
  • Client, in the system of patronage in ancient Rome, an individual protected and sponsored by a patron

In art and entertainment:

  • Client (band), a British synthpop band
    • Client (album), a 2003 album by Client
  • Clients (album), a 2005 album by The Red Chord
  • The Client (novel), a 1993 legal thriller by John Grisham
    • The Client (1994 film), based on Grisham's novel
    • The Client (TV series), a 1995–96 television series based on the novel and film
  • The Client (2011 film), a South Korean courtroom thriller
  • "The Client" (The Office), an episode of the television series The Office
Client (computing)

A client is a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server. The server is often (but not always) on another computer system, in which case the client accesses the service by way of a network. The term applies to the role that programs or devices play in the client–server model.

Client (band)

Client (frequently stylised as CLIEИT) is an English electronic music group from London, formed in 2002. They are most popular in Germany where they have had limited commercial success. They typically combine airline hostess uniforms or shiny fetish fashion outfits with glamour-girl aesthetics and harsh electronics to create a sound reminiscent of early forays into electronic sound manipulation and new wave. Their uniforms have become their trademark.

Client (album)

Client (stylised as CLIEИT) is the self-titled debut album by English electronic music group Client. It was released on 18 August 2003 by Toast Hawaii.

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Usage examples of "client".

I have counseled clients to decrease their expenditures in display advertising while increasing their category listings.

In fact, many of my clients have removed the 24hour emergency message from their yellow page advertising, opting for simpler, well-positioned messages.

Lucas Trent was, after all, the most important client Amaryllis had signed up since she had come to work for Psynergy, Inc.

Gaius Caesar are above the power of this court because they have an ancestry a thousand years old and multitudes of clients?

I am repeatedly told that the soul itself is androgynous, and yet, in the same breath, clients declare sex is not an unimportant factor.

I think I should hardly be doing my duty if I were not to warn you that you will do wisely to exhibit no hesitation in the arrangements by which your agreement is to be carried out, and that in the event of your showing the slightest disposition to qualify the spirit of your strong note to them, or in anywise disappointing their client, you must be prepared, from what I know of the firm, for very sharp practice indeed.

We were in the holding area behind the arraignment court, where attorneys are routinely allowed access to confer with clients before court begins.

From first appearance to arraignment to preliminary hearing and on to trial and then appeal, the franchise client demands hundreds if not thousands of billable hours.

The clients had seemed to be holding back on the matter of the documents, as if reluctant to stress their importance in case the arsonist helped himself to some of them instead of burning them.

Gifts that arrive at home obviously ought to be declared by the client to his employer, just in case they were ever to influence him in deciding who to give a piece of business to, but somehow in the hurly-burly of the run-up to Christmas, when there are a thousand and one things to do, some things may be overlooked.

SOCKETS LAYER A protocol developed by Netscape that provides authentication of both client and server in a secure communication on the internet.

The thing was done so rapidly that the sheriff--a sly, keen fellow, worthy of his clients Barbet and Metivier--found the lad weeping in his chair when he entered the wretched room, after assuring himself that the manuscripts were not in the antechamber.

I knew the place: it was a brothel-house or place of disorder for bawds and whores which had more clients than Westminster Hall and more diseases than Newgate.

His immediate destination was a boardinghouse that catered to off-world clients, a likely place for Beeker and Nightingale to be staying-and a good place to stay, himself.

Business drops off when biker violence drives away clients and tourists.