1A person or organization using the services of a lawyer or other professional person or company.

1. 1.1 A person receiving social or medical services.
   a client referred for counseling

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We will be looking to give priority to the more vulnerable members of society, particularly in residential care homes and social services clients.
   • At this time I also worked on a casual basis in a rural hospital where I dealt with the medical/geriatric clients from that community.
   • Osorio seems to have empathy for all parties - clients, social workers and judges.
   • A spokesman for the clinic, one of a series run by the charity Phoenix House across Britain, said clients had enough to deal with without distraction from the media.
   • I was actually relieved to be a Support Worker again as I didn't have so many different clients to deal with and I had more time to build up proper relationships with them.
   • The result is a cultural competency whose previous absence hindered the chances of success for First Nations clients of social services.
   • In that time over 5000 clients, mainly dealing with alcohol addiction, have passed through the doors of Aiseirí.
   • For instance, staff in social services offices often have to deal with clients with low personal hygiene.
   • The withdrawal of Vertex from the call centre means potential clients are now dealing solely with Manpower, which makes for a more straightforward arrangement.
   • The aims of the day were to promote services and enable referrals to take place between relevant service providers and to reflect on how services deal with clients.
   • The Community Transport chairman says the name is particularly fitting because that vehicle will be used by the council's Social Services clients.
   • Of social services clients contacted during the first three months, two thirds were found not to be claiming all the benefits they should be having.
   • Police and housing associations will refer cases to the service, which is a charity, and can also deal with clients who come to them directly.
   • The healer should work in co-operation with other health care professionals, including the client's doctor.
   • The nonparticipants were clients of local social service agencies or friends of those who had participated in A Journey Toward Womanhood.
   • Before treatment, Gillian carries out a careful medical consultation with clients.
   • People dealing with foodbank clients report that rent is the single most frequently mentioned reason for seeking help.
   • When I met them I thought they were like clients of social workers, and a couple of years ago social services became involved with them due to child-care concerns.
   • Shy clients rank threatening social situations, then master the list item by item.
   • A sister on the ward reports that they have to deal with abusive clients every day.
2. 1.2also client state A nation that is dependent on another, more powerful nation.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • In reality, however, the Netherlands became a client state of France in 1795 and was even annexed by the latter in 1810.
   • All we could offer in return was our obsequious reliability as client state.
   • Nationbuilding's effect on a client state can be profound and more enduring than that achieved solely through diplomatic efforts.
   • They are allied, they are not simply a client state.
   • In any event, the Japanese were left free to set up the client state of Manchukuo, which existed until the Japanese surrender in 1945.
   • Historical analogies to such a relationship between a major power and a client state are hard to come by.
   • The decades after the Second World War, when Albania was the sole European client state of communist China, have left little or no trace in Albanian kitchens.
   • As a Soviet client state it boasted an educated population with good roads, clinics and jobs.
   • We ran its government as a client state with a puppet king.
   • This would be the first instance I know where a great power (in fact, a superpower) would do the fighting as the proxy of a small client state.

2Computing
(in a network) a desktop computer or workstation that is capable of obtaining information and applications from a server.

1. 2.1 A program that is capable of obtaining a service provided by another program.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Added to this is an optional client / server application that allows a service provider to control it remotely.
   • This indirect access enables the client program to gain access to the data in a database that it would not otherwise be able to access.
   • An integrated dynamic firewall limits access to the client / server applications on a per-user basis.
   • In Figure 2, the user interactively queries a client application on a PDA that contains a list of stocks in a portfolio.
   • This could be your web server, a desktop computer running a database client application, or both.

3(in ancient Rome) a plebeian under the protection of a patrician.

1. 3.1archaic A dependent; a hanger-on.
   Synonyms

   child, minor

   hanger-on, cadger, leech, passenger, drone