(computing) The role of a computerapplication or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
Person who receives help or advice from a professional person (ex. a lawyer, an accountant, a social worker, a psychiatrist, etc).
(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.
“Our adversarial legal system coupled with political clientism was unable to deal with it.”
“I think that the old model of clientism that aims to put pressure on the State that I studied in the 1960s is still present today.”
“In the context of patrimonial politics and a warlord economy, an important key to understanding child clientism is the ideology of dependency in this cultural region.”
“The state remains central in perpetuating clientship, wealth and development.”
“Another is the attention he pays to clientship and how this differs from citizenship in placing people in vertical rather than horizontal ties of trust and obligation.”
“In the urbanized regions of Italy in the eighth and ninth centuries, instead of direct rural control by the powerful, what we find is links of clientship.”