clientitisn.
/klʌɪənˈtʌɪtᵻs/, U.S. /ˌklaɪənˈtaɪdᵻs/ 1. Difficulty associated with seeking or dealing with clients. rare.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > specific personal problem
woman trouble1889
clientitis1938
drink problem1977
trouble1981
1938 Moville (Iowa) Mail 21 July Clientitis—sponsor trouble.
1959 Town Crier (Westport, Connecticut) 16 Apr. 13/8 The guys who all too often rushed directly from the train at night, still grey with clientitis fatigue.
2. Originally and chiefly U.S. A tendency in a member of a diplomatic service to identify with or favour the institutions, culture, or interests of the country to which he or she is assigned over those of the country that he or she represents; = clientism n. 2.
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1963 Foreign Service Jrnl. Apr. 28/1 In the identification and assignment of senior officers a good deal more care must be given to the non-measurable characteristics—some superficial, some essential—but in either case important in terms of the New Diplomacy... Is he capable of empathy as distinguished from sympathy or clientitis?
1980 Times 21 Aug. 10/4 The US ambassador to India..was consequently accused of what diplomats call ‘clientitis’.
1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You xvi. 272 So, with time, there developed among them an epidemic of what diplomats call clientitis: an overly credulous embrace of your clients' point of view.
2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Feb. 45/4 The mechanism provides convenient cover for US diplomats suffering from clientitis, shifting the burden and embarrassment of visa refusals from consulates overseas to authorities in Washington.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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