clientedadj.
/ˈklʌɪəntᵻd/, U.S. /ˈklaɪəntəd/ Having or supplied with a client or clients. Chiefly with modifying adverb, or as the second element in compounds, as well-cliented, etc.
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cliented1602
clienteledc1613
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 4v The worst conditioned, and least cliented Petiuoguers.
1609 G. Benson Serm. 7 May 24 Drunkennesse and wantonnesse, are better cliented vpon the Sabboth day then the Ministers of Gods word.
1711 S. H. Do No Right ii. i. 35 A Gentleman..who was not only well Cliented, but had a good Estate of his own.
1831 Metropolitan 2 118 To the..well-cliented incumbents of the bar-benches, the appearance of a novice of promise is wormwood.
1962 Social Probl. 10 174/2 The use of techniques appropriate to the controlled therapist-patient situation would not be practicable in the open and multi-cliented arena of the corner gang world.
1999 Canad. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 387 It also creates a mutli-cliented, multi-tasked, multi-territoried, co-operatively governed police service that closely mirrors the municipal police.
2007 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 22 July b7 Mekong is a spruced up, white-clothed, raspberry-walled, mostly-Occidental-cliented Chinese restaurant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1602- speaking
- speaking acquaintance
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