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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
He explicitly states that they derive status primarily from birth and wealth as well as an extensive system of clientship (Caes.
Understanding Caesar's ethnography: a contextual approach to protohistory
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
However, the buoyancy of the state sector, including not only state employees but also professional classes depending on state clientship, has made up for this loss.
The Thatcher interlude

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