Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: client
IPA transcription: [kl'aɪənt]
Pronunciations of client
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: client
    Meaning: a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer
  • Synonyms: customer, client
    Meaning: someone who pays for goods or services
Usage examples
  • And soon after this the celebrated hypnotist who dressed in green and yellow had another client.
  • My young client, Green's relation, is her lover--is engaged to marry her--is in town, and is likely to meet her!"
  • He undertook to be at Durnmelling at the time appointed, and to let nothing prevent him from seeing his new client.
  • Did he even think, "Of course I'm bound to do the best for my client, but he's in the wrong, and I hope we lose?" I imagine not.
  • He let his eyes rest on Alexey Alexandrovitch's feet, feeling that he might offend his client by the sight of his irrepressible amusement.
  • But he felt afraid of the squire,--that the squire would despise him and snub him, and that the earl would perceive that he had made a mistake when he saw how his client was scorned and snubbed.
  • It was not etiquette to disclose the affairs of one client to another, but if there was a cantankerous customer, one who was never satisfied with prices and quality, that client was Miss Mapp. . . .
  • Then she loosened her tongue, and in her voluable Irish way berated her aunt until poor Phibbs stood aghast at such temerity, and even Mr. Watson, who arrived to enquire after his client and friend, was filled with amazement.
  • "You would be glad," the lawyer, without lifting his eyes, responded, adopting, with a certain satisfaction, the tone of his client's remarks, "for me to lay before you all the methods by which you could secure what you desire?"
  • Silas Watson was an honorable and upright man, and his client's frequent doubtful methods had in past years met his severe censure. Yet he had once promised his dead friend, Tom Bradley, that he would serve Jane Merrick faithfully.
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