Client

Quick meaning: Client is a noun meaning A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

Meaning

A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

More Meanings

1. A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.
2. Ellipsis of client state.
3. (computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
4. (law) A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.
5. (historical) In ancient Rome, retainers and followers associated with a gens.

Example Sentences

A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers.

The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).

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.

Word Forms

• clients

Synonyms for client

Depending on context, synonyms include buyer, customer, patron, purchaser, guest, node.

Antonyms for client

Common opposites include server.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include customer, guest, node, user, employer, business.

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