client
[klahy-uh nt]
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noun
adjective
being a regular customer: a client company.
economically, and often militarily, dependent upon a more prosperous, more powerful nation.
Origin of client
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin client-, stem of cliēns person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful; perhaps akin to clīnāre to bend (see incline)
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A group of five comets, including Halley's, own a sort of cliental dependence upon the planet Neptune.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth CenturyAgnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
client
noun
Word Origin for client
C14: from Latin cliēns retainer, dependant; related to Latin clīnāre to lean
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client
[klī′ənt]
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