client
See also: cliënt
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From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cliēns, akin to clinare (“to lean”).
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client (plural clients)
- A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
- (computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
- A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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.
- (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.
- Short for client state.
- 1989, Edward A. Kolodziej, Roger E. Kanet, Limits of Soviet Power, page 95:
- A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers.
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- (antonym(s) of "computing"): server
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- (customer): clientele
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- → Japanese: クライアント (kuraianto)
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a customer or receiver of services
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computing: the role of a computer application or system
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person who receives help or advice from a professional person
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See also edit
- Client (business) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Client (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Client state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- server
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client m (plural clients)
- (computing) client
- De client communiceert met de server om gegevens op te halen.
- The client communicates with the server to retrieve data.
- De gebruikersinterface van de client is eenvoudig en gebruiksvriendelijk.
- The user interface of the client is simple and user-friendly.
- De software moet zowel op de server als op de client worden geïnstalleerd.
- The software needs to be installed on both the server and the client.
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Not to be confused with cliënt.
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin clientem.
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client m (plural clients, feminine cliente)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) client, retainer, follower (person who is under the patronage of someone else)
- Coordinate term: patron
- État client ― vassal state, client state
- customer (one who purchases or receives a product or service)
- le client est roi ― the customer is always right
- à la tête du client ― according to a person's looks, arbitrarily
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Further reading edit
- “client”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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client m (plural clientj, feminine clienta, plural feminine cliente or clientj)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French client, from Latin cliens.
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client m (plural clienți)
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Declension of client
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) client | clientul | (niște) clienți | clienții |
genitive/dative | (unui) client | clientului | (unor) clienți | clienților |
vocative | clientule | clienților |