clientele

[ klahy-uhn-tel, klee-ahn- ]

noun

1. the clients or customers, as of a professional person or shop, considered collectively; a group or body of clients:

   This jewelry store has a wealthy clientele.

2. dependents or followers.

clientele

/ ˈklaɪəntɪdʒ; ˌkliːɒnˈtɛl /

noun

1. customers or clients collectively

Word History and Origins

Origin of clientele¹

1555–65; < Latin clientēla, equivalent to client- ( client ) + -ēla collective noun suffix; clientele ( def 1 ) probably < French clientèle < Latin

Word History and Origins

Origin of clientele¹

C16: from Latin clientēla, from cliēns client

Example Sentences

With this sophisticated tone set, the shop opened and developed a clientele.

From The Daily Beast

Out of her large clientele of professors, lawyers, and CEOs, “professors are the kinkiest,” she said of her experience.

From The Daily Beast

Over time, the clientele began to shift and their cargo needs evolved.

From The Daily Beast

Wisely, we did, and then made for a small café that served a clientele of recently stranded refugees.

From The Daily Beast

The clientele enjoy participating in the affluent ambiance that the music projects.

From The Daily Beast

But your fashionable doctor's clientele, oh sublime Jenkins, consists of that very thing alone.

From Project Gutenberg

You cannot be long in its rich little lobby without overhearing struck the high note of its distinctive clientele.

From Project Gutenberg

In that it is certainly rough, and is not calculated to favourably impress the more critical of our clientele.

From Project Gutenberg

I rather wonder Win or Martha didn't go over and drive away my too-eager clientele.

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Here he had slowly collected a clientele of butcher boys, shop girls, drug clerks, and car conductors.

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