Crossword clues for clientele
clientele
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clientele \Cli`en*tele"\ (? or ?), n. [L. clientela: cf. F. client[`e]le.]
The condition or position of a client; clientship. [Obs.]
--Bp. Hall.The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "body of professed adherents," from French clientèle (16c.), from Latin clientela "relationship between dependent and patron, body of clients," from clientem (nominative cliens; see client). Meaning "customers, those who regularly patronize a business or professional" is from 1857, perhaps a reborrowing from French (it was used in English in italics as a foreign word from 1836).
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.
n. (alternative form of clientele English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "clientele".
Yes, we have no bananas When a department store was advertising its food department, the owners wanted to attract an upscale, gourmet-oriented clientele.
Evangeline-fixe, since she keeps trying to distract me with speculations on idle playing among the auberge clientele, the political implications of Exile, and other anthropological amusements.
The scandal had put the house off limits to the wealthy clientele who had frequented the bordello and enjoyed its pleasures.
Dad let me come along on his trips, and the greatest gift he ever gave me was making a proud moral point of ensuring I knew who among his clientele were the biggest bribers, sleazebags and connections in the business.
Ghuda Bule, catered to a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing crops into the city, and rural soldiers.
While rich travelers stayed at the large hostels in the city or at palatial inns along the silvery beaches, the Inn of the Dented Helm, owned by Ghuda Bule, catered to a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing crops into the city, and rural soldiers.
The Fleet Center had replaced the old Garden, and I could tell that the joint was trying to go along with the upscale clientele, because there was a bowl of cashews on the bar.
Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.
But by the third year, Keelie Swisher had developed a solid clientele, and was cruising.
WSLJ, and her clientele had grown exponentially with her new-found infamy.
I continued on my way in the little inner sanctum Marcial keeps for his old clientele.
Her pale pink walking dress with its matching pelisse had obviously come from a modiste who catered to a wealthy, stylish clientele.
Her clientele included scroungy locals, just plain folks, and the slumming rich.
She toyed with the idea of pitching the nearly full mug at the barkeep, accusing him of poisoning the clientele.
The notoriety gives them a clientele that is the envy of the empire, and the usual mix was present: Bonzes and Tao-shih swapped filthy stories with burglars and cutthroats, and eminent artists and poets flirted with pretty girls and boys while high government officials played cards with the pimps.