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client

a BUYER of a professional SERVICE.

client

The person to whom an agent owes duties of integrity, confidentiality, loyalty, and hard work. Contrast with customer, who is owed the duty of honesty.

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Their notable capacity to explore the geographical conditions, local kinship and clientship networks, entrepreneurial opportunities and the weakness of the Portuguese presence in the region, underlines the fact that their brokerage roles are fundamental to an understanding of the region's checkered history.
Traders, planters and go-betweens: the Kriston in Portuguese Guinea
It also seems that at this time it becomes easier for aristocratic families to gain enormous power and wealth through the system of clientship. In this way, local leaders or chiefs could gain wider and more "kingly" power.
Understanding Caesar's ethnography: a contextual approach to protohistory
These relationships included various ties of patronage and clientship among the foreign and local traders.
The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul. (Brief Reviews of Books)
Greater power and higher status accrued to Fulani clan leaders who consolidated their control through intermarriage and clientship; office holding became associated with religious knowledge, ties to the Jihad, and kinship (Hendrixson 1981).
State and Ethnicity in precolonial Northern Nigeria
The state remains central in perpetuating clientship, wealth and development.
VIOLENCE, VOICE AND IDENTITY IN ALGERIA
In the Third World the satellite or `client' states of both superpowers followed their leaders, while states which had no particular relation or clientship with either party were divided, and most of Latin America took part in the Games.
THE COLD WAR AND THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT

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